My Evening With HOBO and BLOODLUST ZOMBIES

[indianasmith]

Went to Hasting's this morning and rented
HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN and
BLOODLUST ZOMBIES!!!

Gonna be a good night!

Watch this space for reviews of each.

[Flick James]

Cool. I'm particularly interested in Hobo.

[indianasmith]

OK, it's after midnight but I finished both movies.  Here is a quick impression of each:

HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN (2011)
  This movie has enough reality flaws to make Wyrewizard's head explode!  Rutger Hauer is a rail-riding hobo who comes into the crime-ridden city of - well, you can't even read the city's name for the grafitti on the sign.  And when I say crime-ridden, I mean violence on a level that makes a Mexican drug cartel war look like a low-budget fake wrestling match.  As soon as the Hobo comes into town, he sees the local crimelord Drake publicly decapitate his own brother for betraying him.  He sees rampant crime, children kidnapped by a pedophile Santa, prostitutes beaten up by their pimps on every street corner, and a guy paying "bums" to beat one another up on camera.
  So the Hobo decides to buy a lawn mower.  I'm not kidding.  He looks in the pawnshop window and longs to buy a lawn mower and start his own grasscutting business.  But when he saves an attractive prostitute from one of Drake's psychotic sons, he discovers just how deep and rotten the corruption of this town really is . . . and decides to do something about it.  With a shotgun.
  This movie is INSANELY violent.  I mean, I haven't seen this many taboos shattered since the baby-eating scene in FEAST 2.  Just to give a few samples:



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A person's hand being fed into a lawnmower, a busload of school kids being incinerated by a flamethrower, a shotgun blast to the crotch at point blank range, and an attempted decapitation with a hacksaw.


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  So if you like totally unrealistic, mega-violent, blood-spattered vengeance flicks - and good lawn care - you need to check out HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN.  Do it for WyreWizard.


  BLOODLUST ZOMBIES is apparently a breakout mainstream film - OK, maybe not so mainstream, but a breakout direct-to-video spatterfest - for a pornstar named Alexis Texas.  I wonder if that's her real name?  Anyway, she plays a cute blonde employee at a top secret chemical weapons facility who is secretly shtupping the boss - actually, not so secretly, once he turned the speakerphone on when sweeping the junk off his desk so they could play "cowgirl and pony" on it.  Anyway, while she is going for a ride, there is a chemical spill in the lab, and a feline test subject gets out of its cage, bites a supervisor, and the "Bloodlust Virus" they were working on is loose.  It turns men into raging homicidal maniacs, and women into naked homicidal maniacs.  Lame jokes, abundant profanity, and some absolutely gratuitous zombie nudity round out the assortment.  Also, I think the all-time record for shots discharged from a handgun without reloading.  Anyway, this movie is fairly funny and moves along at a quick pace.  It's empty B-movie shlock, but it's GOOD empty B-movie shlock.  You won't regret the rental!!!

[indianasmith]

Oh, and I forgot to add that among the bonus features is a hilarious send up of the latest Indiana Jones movie.  It's called LOUISIANA SMITH AND THE BASTARD SON.
It made me think of all the negative commentary that CRYSTAL SKULL got on this site.  Whoever made it, and the feature film, would be a welcome addition here! If their tongue was any further in their cheek they'd poke a hole in it!!!

[Flick James]

Also, I think the all-time record for shots discharged from a handgun without reloading.

I need numbers, Indy. NUMBERS!

[indianasmith]

It was late . . . I didn't keep count . . . SORRY!

[AndyC]

Just watched Hobo with a Shotgun last night. I have to admit, even for a 70s-style exploitation pastiche, it was asking a lot in terms of suspension of disbelief. Not that I had a problem with that. I laughed at the more outrageous examples, which I'm sure is what they intended. I mean, killing a news anchor on TV, waving a charred corpse at the camera and threatening more atrocities if the city's homeless aren't massacred - there's no way they were playing that without tongue planted in cheek.

Kind of funny to see Robb Wells playing The Drake's brother as basically Ricky from Trailer Park Boys, for the few minutes he's onscreen before getting his head pulled off by a pickup truck. And "The Plague" were great, even if they did elicit a resounding "WTF?" from me. Actually, that's one of the reasons I liked them. They kicked the insanity up yet another notch.

The Drake actually managed to come across as genuinely evil, which I wouldn't have expected. You don't really see a lot of Newfie crime lords in movies. Surprisingly effective.

Although I didn't care for the violence against children (I really prefer kids to be off limits for this kind of movie), I thought it was a fun little movie. Very gory, but the gore was of that 70s exploitation variety that is so over the top, so cheesy looking and so goofy in its execution that it becomes hard to take seriously. And this movie pushes it even further into the realm of parody.

[Criswell]

Wow. I just got done watching Hobo with a Shotgun, and it was really great. But even for someone who loves gore in their movies. I found some stuff crossed the line. Like the stuff with children. All the actors I thought did a good job, and the movie was really really fun to watch. I think I might of liked it even more than Grindhouse (I haven't viewed Machete yet). A lot of great things in this movie. The movie delivers what the titles is, and it delivers it awesomely. Seriously everyone on this forum needs to see it.

[indianasmith]

So did anybody see the OTHER half of my double feature?

[Torgo]

I loved Hobo with a Shotgun but I will be the first to admit that it's not for everyone!

[Criswell]

I loved Hobo with a Shotgun but I will be the first to admit that it's not for everyone!

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