Trailer - Hobo With A Shotgun (2011)

Well, with courtesy from FearNet us grindhouse/horror fans have been given a small taste of what Hobo With a Shotgun looks like. The original trailer was used as a device to promote Rodriguez and Tarantino’s Grindhouse and was featured in the film but only in Canada and Austin, TX. I had to catch the trailer on YouTube and I thought it was flawless. I believe the people who made the original Hobo With A Shotgun trailer also did Treevenge. You can visit Jason Eisner’s YouTube page here.

Now lets talk about the Grindhouse trailer for Hobo. As I said before, the trailer is flawless and features David Brunt as a hobo who decides to take the law into his own hands “one shell at a time.” So, I guess it’s sort of like a revenge exploitation movie. I guess you can also say its like Taxi Driver in the sense that a normal homeless man was pushed to the edge after seeing society crumble around him. Near the end of the trailer it goes from exploitation to absurdity and I loved it. There are scenes in the trailer where I am left asking myself, ‘How did it come to that?’ or ‘What the hell are they doing?’ It was a shame I couldn’t see this on the big screen.

The official trailer for the feature length film is a little different. Here David Brunt is replaced by Rutger Hauer (from The Hitchhiker), who looks like he could pull the off the role. The trailer starts off with Hauer, as the hobo, creepily talking to a baby in a nursery wishing that he or she becomes something and doesn’t have to end up living a life of violence. It’s eerie, scary and meaningful. It’s intercut with sick, demented, twisted and surreal images of violence and it’s alarming. Again, like the original trailer… once Hauer’s speech is done it descends into a nightmare of absurdity. However, this film looks like it could be an homage to great apocalyptic films like Road Warriors, Mad Max or even Robocop. This could be a movie that pushes a message about our society and how violence has become the norm almost. It looks like it’s post-apocalyptic but it’s not… it’s set in modern times. The funny thing is, the background to the scenes I wondered about from the first trailer seem more absurd than that scenes themselves.

All I can say is that I am ready for this movie.

God Bless Texas

You know what I really liked about “Texas Chainsaw” is the raw grittiness of the movie. The movie is shot as thought it was a hand held Super 8 and the dialogue is spoken as thought it was half improve and half scripted, which makes the movie seem more realistic and puts you right in the movie. Even the set and the atmosphere gives the movie this creepy, rustic, raw look to it… like a wound that had been let open to fester and rot. The movie is tense, brutal and very unforgiving with a slight note of comedy.

The scene where they try to make the Grandpa hit the girl over the head with a hammer is an example of dark comedy at it’s finest. He is so old and dying and he is still trying to kill this woman and he keeps dropping the hammer and his relatives keep trying to help him.

What I also notices is that this movie reminds me a lot of “Last House on the Left” in the sense of it’s brutality and violence and that something like this can happen… what’s the worst thing that a human can do to another human and this is the answer. It has a sort of exploitation feel to it and that is something that I like seeing in this movie. What also helps is that the narration in the beginning says that this was a true account… that alone is frightening.