Blood Derivatives

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I suspect that HitFix's Drew McWeeny knows something when he says that Jason Eisener's Hobo With A Shotgun is "genuinely deranged" and "far bloodier and nastier" than a Troma film. I just want to add to what Steven Gaydos wrote about how Hobo might be (and certainly should be) a great social-vengeance metaphor about an angry disenfranchised guy blasting expensively-cut hair all over them walls. It should be, in short, double-billed with Inside Job.

That's the idea or concept I was searching for yesterday. That's why Hobo With A Shotgun, unseen, has caught on. Do I believe that Eisener had the slightest inkling of making a shotgun-splatter film that could function as a payback metaphor for the grand theft that caused the financial collapse of '08? Of course not. I'm sure, being a friend of Eli Roth's, that he's made a common abbatoir film. But maybe on some level Hobo can be interpreted that way anyway, despite the presumably slovenly motives that were in Eisener's head. Now excuse me while I dream about Wall Street yuppies being gutted like hogs.

Update: A film critic friend just wrote to say he's "not sure that today is a good day to be encouraging fantasies of violent revenge. Remember: The saloon door swings both ways." To which I replied, "I was basically continuing the thought of Steven Gaydos about an apparent fact, which is that a Wall Street revenge fantasy may have already been created and put into a forthcoming grindhouse exploitation film. What's better -- a straight slaughterhouse film for the mongrel audience, or a slaughterhouse film that seeks to express social anger a la Inside Job?"

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 8, 2011 at 11:44 AM

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MartinBlank says ...

Aaaand now movies about deranged, disenfranchised guys shooting at the elite don't seem quite as fanciful as they did a few hours ago.

Posted by MartinBlank at January 8, 2011 1:04 PM

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MartinBlank says ...

Just to add, though, I'm all over this when it comes out.

Posted by MartinBlank at January 8, 2011 1:04 PM

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joe banks says ...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gives it two big thumbs up

Posted by joe banks at January 8, 2011 1:17 PM

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mrksltsky says ...

Congratulations on understanding what the adults are talking about joe banks.

Posted by mrksltsky at January 8, 2011 3:39 PM

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Kakihara says ...

Martin: The question now is *will* it come out?

Posted by Kakihara at January 8, 2011 5:43 PM

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BobbyLupo says ...

Eli Roth is a bad example; there aren't many horror filmmakers these days making things that are as blatantly satirical (especially towards America) as he.

But I think there's a pretty common theory that horror movies tend to wind up with a lot of social commentary baggage whether intended or not.

Posted by BobbyLupo at January 8, 2011 11:46 PM

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mizerock says ...

Wow, talk about bad timing. "Too real"!

I was intrigued by this movie when I first heard of it, and someday I might enjoy taking it in in the fanciful (?) spirit in which it was made. But not right now.

Posted by mizerock at January 10, 2011 1:10 PM

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Bob Violence says ...

The question now is *will* it come out?

yes the question on everyone's mind is whether this movie about a homeless dude who kills people will be released in a timely fashion

(slow clap)

Posted by Bob Violence at January 10, 2011 4:48 PM

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