Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
Film details
View on IMDb ↗CastRutger Hauer, Pasha Ebrahimi, Robb Wells, Brian Downey, Gregory Smith, Nick Bateman, Drew O'Hara, Molly Dunsworth, Jeremy Akerman, André Haines
Review
"What worked in Hobo with a Shotgun that doesn't in most of these modern genre films is the humor. I'm not sure the humor was planned, but it's there. The fact that Hauer's character delivers grandiose and ridiculous statements with complete deadpan or touching sensitivity just makes for some really funny moments. Also, the gratuitous violence was there, but I didn't feel the female exploitation was as bad as in some of Rodriguez's stuff. Maybe it was Hauer's acting mastery that made Hobo with a Shotgun a cut above other films of its kind. Hauer... delivers his dialogue with an insane kind of earnestness, and it just comes across as wildly amusing." - Amy Curtis, We Got This Covered
Ranking history
The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films
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HIGHEST#1,0512025
LOWEST#1,4762021
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