Exaggerated violence trend continues: HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN official trailer (NSFW)

Exaggerated violence trend continues: HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN official trailer (NSFW)

Sep 06

There’s no doubting the trend of over-the-top, exaggerated violence in feature films is making a comeback, albeit with permission to look cheap and be classed as B-grade.

Playing on cinema screens in the States right now are  gory newcomers Machete and Piranha 3D, with a slew of direct-to-DVD zombie films that thrive on blood and guts filling video shelves and streaming devices.

Coming soon is Jason Eisener‘s feature adaptation of Hobo With A Shotgun, which promises to be an equally bloody, gory affair. Feature adaptation? Yes — like Machete, Hobo started as a faux trailer between the films of Grindhouse (on rare prints only), released by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez in 2007. After the internet created buzz about the retro-cool trailer, a feature was quickly developed and is now close to ready for cinema screens.

Helping director Jason Eisner get the Hobo feature get off the ground was the worldwide success of his similarly violent and grindhouse-gritty short film Treevenge, which collected a bunch of awards at short film festivals in 2009.

No exact dates have be announced yet, but expect to see the feature for Hobo With A Shotgun in 2011.

Here’s a look at the original grindhouse trailer that started it all.