'Hobo,' which was originally a faux trailer entry in a ' Grindhouse' promo contest and won, clearly knows what it's doing and exploits every avenue possible at being every bit like its inspiration. The significant difference between those movies - the reason why one works well while the others don't as much - is that it takes itself serious. Canadian filmmakers Jason Eisener (who also takes director credits), John Davies and Rob Cotterill, on the other hand, find that perfect balance of cheap, trashy thrills and good entertainment, delivering a fun celebration of B-movie yarn. They work in their own right as garish embellishments of the genre, had the makers a larger budget to play with. They simply fall short at capturing the true spirit of exploitation films (something which Tarantino's ' Death Proof' does better but underappreciated), becoming instead exaggerated caricatures of that unique era. That's not to say those movies from Robert Rodriguez are terrible or unwatchable, because they're not. (Correction: Story has been updated to properly describe NES as an 8-bit videogame console and to note that the Hobo With a Shotgun game is now available in iTunes.'Hobo with a Shotgun' is essentially everything ' Planet Terror' and ' Machete' wanted to be, or at least, everything they were aiming for. Eisener, Mondo creative director Justin Ishmael, Magnolia's Andrew McGraime, GameSalad's Mark Chuberka, Badass Digest's Moises Chiullan, Perfect Dork Studios' Billy Garretsen and Powerhouse Animation Studios' Brad Graeber will discuss the videogame project during a SXSW panel Monday, titled " Hobo With a Shotgun, The Game: A Case Study." Hobo With a Shotgun screens at the South by Southwest panel film festival this year. Let's hope all the blocky gore doesn't sully any of Steve Jobs' pristine gadgets.
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He promised that some of the deadliest villains will be saved for those free updates. League said as the release approaches, new levels will be added to the game.
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The movie hits video-on-demand April 1 and will be released theatrically in May.
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The $2.99 Hobo With a Shotgun game is available for download now. "Everybody dies a bloody death," he says, "but it's a 16-bit, old-school death, so nobody's going to have any nightmares over it." League, who helped out with the Hobo With a Shotgun beta testing, said the game is fun, difficult enough to inspire repeat plays, and just as over the top as the movie. So, has Alamo, which has tapped a winning combination for genre films, found the silver bullet for creating a killer movie game – a prize that has long eluded big studios, which usually partner with giant gamemakers to churn out boring games with big price tags? 'It's really not a fair fight.'"It takes a lot of firepower to knock 'em out, and if you get cornered in the wrong part of the bumper car arena, you're doomed," League said. The game-development process was steered by Eisener, with many characters lifted from the movie, including a pair of villainous brothers in bumper cars who make for a crazy boss battle, according to League. It won director Robert Rodriguez's SXSW trailer contest for Grindhouse and was subsequently screened with the exploitation-flick double feature.
The movie itself spun out of a fake trailer created by Eisener and colleagues. From their character designs, pumping soundtracks and color palettes, you can find all those inspirations in our film." "Games like Double Dragon 2, River City Ransom and Final Fight all had worlds we wanted to explore. "Growing up playing videogames in the '80s with my friends has attributed to a lot of my artistic tastes," Eisener said in a press release. Director Eisener said he and writer John Davies looked to vintage videogames when dreaming up the hobo's brutal world. The Hobo With a Shotgun game seems like a perfect project to test the concept.
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