Hobo with a Shotgun
Tags: comedy, murder, cult, violence, absurd, satire, revenge, sadist

Plot synopsis:
A hobo arrives by boxcar in Hope Town, its welcome sign repainted to read "Scum Town". The town is ruled by "The Drake" and his sadistic sons Ivan and Slick. The Hobo sees an amateur film maker shooting a "Bumfight" movie. As he pushes his shopping cart through the streets, a bloodied man screams for assistance. Two cars approach the man, revealing The Drake and his sons. The man is revealed to be Logan, The Drake's younger brother. The Drake explains to the townspeople that his brother is a traitor and will be made example of. He proceeds to publicly decapitate Logan with a barbed-wire noose.
The Hobo sees a lawnmower in a pawn shop. Wishing to buy it, he starts begging for change on a sidewalk. He sees a group of punks drag a homeless man into The Drake's night club. Ivan and Slick enter the building and he follows them in. Inside, the brothers, along with their henchmen, torture and kill homeless people in demented arcade style games. Slick begins harassing a boy named Otis, who owes him money. A prostitute named Abby attempts to intervene, angering Slick. Ivan snaps Otis' arm. Slick then propositions the hooker, gets her outside, then prepares to kill her. The Hobo intervenes, knocks Slick unconscious and carries him to the police station.
At the station, he learns of the police chief's corruption and complicity with criminal activities and he hate hobos and the others cops hate hobos also. Ivan enters the station and, along with the chief, restrains The Hobo. Slick then joins the two, roughs up The Hobo and carves the word "scum" onto his chest. The Hobo is then thrown into a garbage bin by the chief and the another cop. He stumbles across Abby, who takes him to her apartment and tends to his wounds. The next day, The Hobo goes to the amateur filmmaker seen earlier to make money. Upon completing a series of degrading acts, including chewing glass, he earns enough money to purchase the lawnmower. At the pawnshop, a trio of robbers enter and take a woman and her baby hostage. The Hobo grabs a shotgun from the shelf and kills the robbers. Realizing that Hope Town needs justice, he chooses the shotgun, which costs the same as the lawnmower. He buys the gun and kills dozens of criminals, including the filmmaker, a pimp, a coke lord and a pedophile dressed as Santa Claus.
The Drake, infuriated, sets loose Ivan and Slick. The two burn a school bus filled with children to terrorize people because the kids like hobos. Afterwards, they bursts into a television studio during a live news broadcast, kill the anchorman who like the hobo and demand that all homeless people be killed. The Drake then joins them and requests The Hobo be brought to him. The town is plunged into anarchy as a mass genocide of the towns vagrants begins.
As Abby is walking home, a corrupt cop attempts to rape her, but The Hobo kills him. The gunshots alert a nearby group, who rush to investigate. Abby smuggles The Hobo past them in a shopping cart covered with the dead cop's remains. The pair are spotted by Otis, who informs Slick and Ivan. Back at her apartment, The Hobo tells Abby of his plan to start a lawnmowing business, which she enthusiastically supports. Ivan and Slick enter the apartment and attack the two, wounding Abby. The Hobo overpowers Slick and holds him at gunpoint, then forces Ivan to leave. The Hobo then shoots Slick in the groin, and takes Abby to the hospital. Slick gets to a payphone and calls The Drake. He is then dragged down to hell in a demonic, perpetually burning schoolbus. The Drake, mourning the death of his favorite son, resolves to take The Hobo down. He summons "The Plague", a duo of armor-clad demons: Rip and Grinder. While Abby is recovering, The Hobo visits the maternity ward and monologues to the babies. When he returns to Abby's room, The Plague capture and deliver him to The Drake, who plans to publicly execute him.
Abby, having recovered, returns to the pawn shop for weapons. She attaches an axe to The Hobo's shotgun and turns the lawnmower into a shield. She then rallies a crowd to free The Hobo and bring down The Drake. Abby holds Ivan hostage and confronts The Drake. However, he shoots his son and denounces him as a disappointment. In the ensuing fight, she manages to kill Grinder. The Drake then severs her hand with the lawnmower shield, but she stabs him repeatedly with her exposed arm bone, incapacitating him. Rip tries to persuade Abby to replace Grinder as his partner, but The Hobo drives him off.
The Hobo spots The Drake crawling away to safety and prepares to execute him, but is interrupted by the corrupt police. The townspeople, motivated by Abby, stand up against the police. Not wishing to let innocent people die for him, The Hobo ends the stalemate by killing The Drake, and is gunned down by the police as Abby screams. The townspeople respond by shooting and killing all the corrupt police.
In an extended ending that was cut from the final film, Abby's hand is replaced by several shotguns as she becomes part of The Plague.

Review: The chunks of the movie that involve crazy old Rutger Hauer blasting through waves of baddies in brutal fashion and the bizarre acts of violence perpetrated by the films antagonists are easily the highlights, and they never fail to delight with their brilliant, twisted gore effects.
This is a great example of a movie that is made to be corny, cheesy and fun to watch!It was like watching a B movie 80's horror BUT it is meant to be that way instead of the usual happening where the movie was seriously made and you can't help but cringe at how bad it is!Rutger Hauer is great as the hobo, funny as hell!
I remember 'ol Rutger from wedlock and other decades old films of his so to see him in this is hilarious and couldn't help think what a great actor for agreeing to make this film (ok the real life truth is something different, money and fame, but i like my version of reality!)...quality!I don't want to give away any spoilers and would just recommend that you watch it and remember it is meant to be a horror spoof kind of thing, so leave your serious head at the door...this film genre is a bit like machete i guess except machete sucks and this one doesn't....
Hobo With a Shotgun (2011), gore/retro/post/apocalyptic fantasy film, is another of those endearing films in which after generous doses of violence of the most extreme nature, we learn in the most didactic and realistic way possible, the importance of values indispensable to coexist in society, such as justice, sacrifice, friendship, and perhaps love; without which the social pyramid would become a desolate desert of ignorance, depravity and abuses of the strong over the weak.The story itself, unfolds in the manner of a Nordic saga, set no longer in the woods and the sea, but in the dirty and miserable streets inhabited by homeless people without dignity, drug addicts armed with knives, and girls and hungry children without dreams nor hopes, who sell their body or their pain for a coin, where the only thing that seems abundant is gushing blood for pure pleasure and drugs.
Was he always a hobo or fell under these conditions due to some unforeseen misfortune, the fall of Wall Street, the Second American Civil War, bad friends, drink, gambling, stealing, betrayal, deception, or even a personal rebellion against the consumer society?), decides to take it in their hands and clean it, entering into action as a Patriarch of the early times, whose only law is the rumble of his shotgun, thus giving up his own absurd hopes (to end his days as a gentle gardener in the suburbs).
Although you will have to wait a little bit before hobo and shotgun are united in a cacophony of blood and guts.This movie is about a nameless hobo (Rutger Hauer) who rides the rail and arrives in a new town where the movies intentions are immediately made obvious.
After observing more obscenities Rutger comes to the aid of a prostitute in trouble, Abby (Molly Dunsworth) and they strike up an unlikely friendship as the movie progresses.Now our hobo's dream is but a simple one, he is intent on starting a honest gardening business and gathers his pennies to buy an old lawnmower.
However fate conspires against him and he ends up with a pump action shotgun instead and sets about ridding the streets of crime (definitely makes for a better story!) With one liners as classic as: Abby: "You can't solve all the world's problems with a shotgun!" Hobo: "It's all I know." it's not hard to see the standard that this movie has set for itself!
At times the gore looks quite convincing and at others less so but it comes so thick and fast that you won't have time to worry yourself with small matters such as that.If you don't have a strong stomach them I definitely recommend that you give this one a miss and that also goes for people who think that this movie won't involve children in the mayhem, because it does and on several occasions as well.
Just by the title, I could always tell that Hobo with a Shotgun was going to be a fun bloody action movie, and I was completely right.
I can't see this film getting anything but NC-17 if it does get submitted for a rating.The movie begins with a happy, overly bright view of the hobo getting off of a train and entering an unnamed city, looking for a new life.
Several attempts over the past few years have tried to re-create the whole look and feel of the grind house films such as the two films in the Grindhouse feature from 2007 as well as Robert Rodriguez's Machete and now comes Hobo with a Shotgun.
Much like Machete, Hobo with a Shotgun was one of the fake trailers in the Grindhouse theatre experience and later was turned into a feature film.
A hobo comes to a town where it is controlled by a ruthless crime lord and his sons and everywhere you go people are being murdered and the town looks like something out of a post apocalyptic film and the police are not doing anything because they are just as corrupt as the crime lords themselves.
Right off I am going to say that if you are at all turned off by brutal and sadistic violence, or if you are easily offended, or grossed out by such things then do not even try watching Hobo with a Shotgun, because you will be leaving the theatre and demanding for a refund.
The story is simple, but that is not a problem as most of the grind house and cult films from back in the day were and this one captures the visual style, the dialogue and the over the top violence in a way that makes you feel as if you have time travelled back to the 70's and are watching a brand new film released from that era about a hobo and his shotgun.
HOBO is one of those gems.Hollywood as watered us down year after year with sequels, remakes, and just plain garbage, and the true visceral hardcore cinema us Generations X-er's grew up on has been long gone, unless you're a gen x-er who dabbles in independent filmmaking.HOBO, the new feature film based upon the Canadian Faux Grindhouse trailer attached to the Canadian prints of Grindhouse is now making waves left and right around the world.Rutger Hauer, in top form, is a homeless man who strolls on into to Hope Town, a crime ridden haven that would most likely be compared to Hell on Earth.HOBO, goes completely over the top, and I mean completely over.
It's not the hobo who's bad, it's the world ;) It's nice to see a completely over the top, crazy insane, violent and often ridiculous blood bath film manage to have a character that you can love, one that you will cheer for.
I really enjoyed listening to the soundtrack to this movie, it fit the time of emotion, from feeling sad, crazy action, lots of gore or even watching the hobo on a train in the opening credits.
Watch it, if you can get by the excessive violence, like having a good time or like action, go to the movies, or you can even wait for it's release on DVD, it will be a great movie either way..
Rutger Hauer is great as the Hobo with a shotgun, but there are two movies at battle here.
One is a gritty exploitation film about a man pushed beyond his limit and a Troma movie complete with horribly over the top performances, topless girls engaged in tired acts of ultra-violence, and many freezer size bags of fake cocaine.
Hobo With A Shotgun is just too Troma, which is not a great surprise given that just like Troma movies it is a copy of the real thing.
buckets and buckets of blood and poorly made over the top violence where you can apparently break and arm in two with one hand etc.weird effects like red light and smoke inside a hospital is just one of the weird stuff that don't make any sense.i think it actually dragged some pretty good actors below their own level.brian downey did really good in lexx but here its just kinda painful to watch him act.rutger and molly really struggels to keep the movie floating despite what it is but they are overpowered by how bad the entire production is.basically you can tell the actors cant themselves really take it serious or believe in the mess of story it is.I've seen a lot of b movies and ultragore but this is probably the worst one so far.save your money rent something else.this is just junk..
It was funny, the music was good, the acting fit the movie perfectly (meaning that no Oscars will be awarded, but the actors knew what they were doing), and it had a bunch of memorable scenes.The guy who plays the hobo did a great job, IMO.
They were also very creative when they made this movie, especially in coming up with creative and disgusting ways of killing people, and it is a very eerie film to watch which definitely has plenty of thriller moments.I also liked the story of this movie overall, and it seems to say something about where our world maybe could end up heading, as corruption takes over their city.
It could be that we aren't giving the earnest efforts of gore hounds and their ilk a fair shake for more fun renditions for the taboo.Critical analysis can ride shotgun to the sheer awesomeness of the practical special effects and cheesy one liners.You would think a film of it's genre, the retro throwback gore fest would fall flat because the budget just isn't there or the script just isn't fresh enough but the efforts of the tightly knit crew and the joy of super star Rutger Hauer having as much fun they can on the brightest sets of blood splattered drywall and practical special effects that are just fun to look at.Do not overlook the efforts of the humble yet busy background cast, basking in the blood soaked glory of the titular Hobo with a Shotgun and the villains.
Rutger Hauer is a very well liked actor to me, and his acting was still good but the story was set be be totally unbelievable, and I think that was intensionally done that way.
"Hobo with a Shotgun" is a fairly impressive debut film considering it sprang from a two-minute "fake trailer," but there are a number of issues which may keep it from reaching true "cult" status (for which it was clearly intended)...and a number of notes it hits perfectly.Rutger Hauer is a perfect fit for his role and as charismatic as always; anyone into schlocky cult films will feel right at home seeing him play the title character.
The homeless man decides to take a stand and takes to wiping all the filth off the streets with a shotgun, while trying to help a sympathetic hooker named Abby (Molly Dunsworth) get off the game.Always such pleasant affairs these Grindhouse entries, Jason Eisener's film revels in trash, exploitation and blood splattered violence like no other.
Although it does seem as if the role's been catered to him a bit, as it feels, especially towards the end, to be in the style of an 80s film, which were his forte, but it's no less of an unrewarding experience.It will probably get an appreciation among the hardcore of those who love this sort of thing, but I found this hobo with a shotgun to misfire quite badly.
I came into this movie hoping for a slew of cheap effects, bad acting, and even worse script-writing...well, i got all of that, unfortunately, the gore level was so high and so explicit i didn't laugh too much.Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a gory flick, but there are lines that should never be crossed.
from there, the hobo with a shotgun is born.If you haven't guessed, this film is Canadian, and it's opening and closing credits feel like they belong to a early to mid 80's movie.
Hobo with a Shotgun started its life as one of the fake trailers between the grindhouse Tarantino/Rodriguez double bill Death Proof and Planet Terror and just like Machete should probably have stayed there.
I'm sure a lot of people will want to watch it seeing only its title, thinking it's a movie like Zombieland where a ridiculous plot is executed as a funny comedy..
how is this enjoyable??..); and then for the movie what you get is:gore terribly executed, cries of victims (it gets annoying after the first minute), awful image quality (as if watching an 1990 movie), amateur camera movement, absolutely no plot but a lot of meaningless blabla, 100% stupidity, poor acting and the worst of all is that it's filled only with sick, distorted & psycho fetish ideas of how to kill or humiliate or beat up another being & in my opinion anyone who enjoys it has got some serious mental issues to resolve.In conclusion, it saddens me to see that today's mentality likes the concepts that this movie is made of.
The acting is horrifying (even Hauer looks like he's only ever acted in the Westborough rendition of 'Our Town', and he's the best thing about this movie!), the script is appalling (characters disappearing, really cheesy but unfunny one-liners, metaphors thought up by two-year-olds), the music (just bad), the lighting, the set-design, everything is awful.
I deeply LOVE Rutger Hauer, and I understand the motivation for the movie, he's drawn to it, the story is good, great gore and trash, the meaning was there but needed more, more truth and exposure of actual facts and injustices, but the execution is in fact dreadful !
Rutger Hauer – looking pretty grizzled and weather-beaten these days – is pretty good in the title role; the use of saturated colour gives the film a fresh, original look that's deliberately at odds with the subject matter; and a few key scenes shine like diamonds in a pile of manure, but the filmmakers have no idea about when the time is right to take a step back so that we can lift our heads and take a breath for a moment before being submerged once more in their foul world of violence and gore.
Like "Machete" 2010 this movie has the "Grindhouse" feel to it with tons of blood and gore, while looking really cheap.
his weather-beaten features tells a story of a life lived hard and ruined by a series of unfortunate events that led him to becoming a hobo.the film is loaded with gory death scenes which includes but not limited to a decapitation, a foot being smashed with a sledgehammer and of all things someone getting their penis blown off with a shotgun.
The film fully delivers what it wants and brings back great memories from the past when we loved reading tales of sanely crusaders.A Hobo (Rutger Hauer) comes to a city called 'Hope Town' that has been reduced to a 'Scum Town' by the ruling mafia family of The Drake (Brian Downey).
Been awhile since last I saw a good Rutger Hauer movie, so "Hobo With a Shotgun" wasn't one that was ranking high on my 'to-watch-list', though that turned out to be a mistake.Don't let the cheesy title scare you off, because this movie is extreme and ultra violent in ways I hadn't even begun to imagine.
Rutger Hauer was quite good in the role of the shotgun-wielding hobo, and it was nice to see him back in a movie like this, a movie that actually will be remembered.Something that made the work for me, aside from all the blood, gore and mayhem, was the way that the movie was shot.
And also that whole vigilante-justice aspect to the movie worked out so well, it was like a Charles Bronson movie gone bad - but in a good way!It should be said that there is a lot of graphic violence in the movie, so "Hobo With a Shotgun" is not suitable for all viewers.
I mean read the title back to yourself, look at the extreme artwork on the DVD cover and tell me you thought it would be anything other than a low-budget action film with lots of gore, a ridiculous plot and plenty of over-acting (save for Hauer, who was excellent).
Don't get me wrong, I love a good horror flick and I don't mind the occasional violent action film but, a movie needs to have more to it than just violence.The plot, what there is of it, revolves around Hobo (Rutger Hauer) who rides the rails into an unnamed city that is a modern day Sodom.
its not the worst thing i seen, yet, this movie looks like it was filmed in Canada and has a lot of senseless violence from start to finish, so after i saw the video i looked it up and found it was made with a budget of 3 million bucks, i thought its budget was a lot less, if your into old school 80s blood and gore this might be what your looking for.
However i seen many people get up and leave during the film, and all I'm thinking in my head was that these people paid to go see a movie called " HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN" what exactly did they expect to see?.
How Did They Ever Make a Movie Like Hobo with a Shotgun?.
I should probably start off by pointing out that if you're one of those who considers a movie like Taxi Driver to be "violent", "gruesome", or "out of hand" in any way, you may want to skip Hobo With A Shotgun.
Hobo with a Shotgun is a great piece of neo-exploitation, drawn from a fake trailer in the film Grindhouse.