The apocalypse. I love it. I love everything about it, I love the potential for story and human study is presents, I love the whole idea of society crumbling under the threat of some force, and I revel in writing about it. “After” is yet another take on a zombie apocalypse, except this time… it’s through the eyes of a zombie. After a presumably horribly bloody death, three survivors, held up in a large house, draw their attention elsewhere as their father lays in the next room slowly dying. Through his eyes, we watch his last sights as his children run back and forth planning an escape from the zombies outside. He then emerges and begins wandering the house, with his children struggling to fend him off without killing him.
Daily Archives: September 22, 2007
Hobo with a Shotgun (2007)
Now living as an online cult gem, “Hobo with a Shotgun” has an interesting history. Around the time the craze for the Tarantino-Rodriguez “Grindhouse” rolled around, there was a lot of excitement. Fake trailers, the Grindhouse feel, and two big movies, and then they offered young filmmakers at SXSW a chance to create their own fake trailer to be featured during the actual movie. “Hobo with a Shotgun” won out. Granted, it only was featured in a few theatrical showings across the US, it was praised as one of the few entries to capture that truly trashy atmosphere that made Grindhouse so much fun. And shockingly, Eisener captures the time much better than Rob Zombie’s trailer did.