Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Breakneck
- Intensity
- Extreme
- Complexity
- Simple
- Violence
- Graphic
- outrageous
- feral
- darkly comic
- midnight movie night
- cult film marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly view it as a technically committed but unsubtle homage to low-budget exploitation thrillers, praised for exuberant gore while divided over its intelligence and excess.
What sets it apart
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The film recreates low-budget 1970s trash cinema through over-saturated visuals, cartoonish grotesquerie, and escalating shocks.
The Hobo responds to armed criminals, corrupt police, pimps, and an urban crime boss with a 20-gauge shotgun.
Hope Town is depicted as an urban landscape where crime rules and corruption shapes everyday life.
Critics describe the film as a pitch-perfect recreation and gleefully gory homage to brutal 1970s low-budget crime films.
Films like Hobo with a Shotgun, and why
Machete
shares gleefully excessive gore, vigilante justice, dystopian urban decay, and grindhouse exploitation aesthetics
The Warriors
shares neon-soaked urban violence, heightened comic-book brutality, and a lone antihero confronting criminal power
Planet Terror
shares revenge-driven vigilante action, splatter violence, and deliberately trashy exploitation filmmaking
Turbo Kid
shares dystopian crime, graphic vigilante violence, and satirical low-budget genre excess
Movie Details
- Director
- Jason Eisener
- Release Date
- 2011-05-06
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 (716)
Cast
- Rutger Hauer
- Molly Dunsworth
- Gregory Smith
- Robb Wells
- Brian Downey
- Nick Bateman
- Peter Simas
- Pasha Ebrahimi
- Jeremy Akerman
- David Brunt
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Philo, Magnolia Selects Amazon Channel, Monsters and Nightmares Amazon Channel, Warriors and Gangsters Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Hobo with a Shotgun about?
- A destitute drifter arms himself with a shotgun and wages a lurid one-man war against a city ruled by criminals.
- What is Hobo with a Shotgun like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Hobo with a Shotgun as breakneck, its intensity as extreme and its storytelling as simple.
- Is Hobo with a Shotgun violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Hobo with a Shotgun as graphic.
- What did critics think of Hobo with a Shotgun?
- Critics broadly view it as a technically committed but unsubtle homage to low-budget exploitation thrillers, praised for exuberant gore while divided over its intelligence and excess.
- Which films are like Hobo with a Shotgun?
- Films with a similar feel include Machete, The Warriors, Planet Terror, and Turbo Kid.
- How long is Hobo with a Shotgun?
- Hobo with a Shotgun runs 86 minutes.
- Where can I watch Hobo with a Shotgun?
- In United States, Hobo with a Shotgun streams on Philo, Magnolia Selects Amazon Channel, Monsters and Nightmares Amazon Channel, Warriors and Gangsters Amazon Channel.
