Grindhouse trend continues with more gritty fare from Hollywood
By T.L. Stanley on Thu Sep 9 2010
Why more people went to see The American, a lumbering pseudo-arthouse movie with rotten reviews, than the delightfully over-the-top Mexploitation flick Machete last weekend, I'll never understand. But there's an upside here—namely that Machete's story could continue. (Danny Trejo rode into the sunset without a scratch, and with Jessica Alba on his motorcycle, no less!) And the current grindhouse trend continues. Our brother blog Heat Vision says Eli Roth is planning his own entry in the genre, just in time for the holidays. It's dubbed Thanksgiving, and let's just assume something or somebody will get carved. A gritty, hyper-violent faux trailer for another movie, called Hobo with a Shotgun, rolled out with Machete this weekend in some markets. Filmed by Canadian Jason Eisener, it stars Rutger Hauer as a homeless vigilante. Depending on response, maybe we'll have another budding franchise on our hands. Warning: The trailer's so NSFW.
