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Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)

Hobo with a Shotgun poster
Directed by
Jason Eisener
Genre
drama film, action film, horror film, splatter film, exploitation film, thriller film
Country
United States, Canada
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 699 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A homeless man arrives in a crime-ridden city and decides to take justice into his own hands with a shotgun. He wages a bloody war against the local crime boss and his sadistic sons.

grungyover-the-topviolentcomedicretrocampyunhingedexploitative

What happens

Hobo with a Shotgun is a 2011 exploitation black comedy vigilante film directed by Jason Eisener and written by John Davies. Based on Eisener's fictitious trailer of the same name from Grindhouse (2007), it is the second feature-length adaptation of a fictitious Grindhouse trailer, following Robert Rodriguez's Machete (2010). Hobo with a Shotgun premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2011, on March 25 in Canada, and on May 6 in the United States. The film received mixed reviews from critics and has become a cult film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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