Just last night I was sparing with one of my editors for another review horror website about meaning behind the term “grindhouse.” My editor believes that no such word should exist and the entire meaning behind the term is just a loo to generate business for studios looking to recapture a 70’s ultra-violent culture with in a cinema medium. Whereas I believe the sleazy retro-fierce genre still lives and breathes today, spanning over 40 years. Every genre goes dormant for some time; the zombie genre went dormant all through the nineties before making a ridiculous comeback at the turn of the millennium. Whether me or my editor is right or wrong, the facts are undeniable that violent, exploitive and gruesome movies are still being produced today and being labeled a “grindhouse” film is still up for debatable grabs. Hobo with a Shotgun is one of those violent, exploitive and gruesome films made in modern day.
A traveling hobo rides the rail into a wretched town filled with homeless exploiters, pedophile Santas, disrespectful murderous punks and a crime lord named The Drake and his two merciless sons Ivan and Slick. All the Hobo wanted was peace and to gain enough money to buy himself a lawn motor from the local pawn shop Instead, the town got to him pushing him over the edge causing him to buy a single barrel, pump-action justice delivering shotgun! Even if you jay-walked, the Hobo took vigilantism one shell at a time.
It's Bloggin Evil! 