Hoboken Hollow is a 2006 American horror film directed by Glen Stephens, and starring Jason Connery, Rudolf Martin, C. Thomas Howell, Dedee Pfeiffer, Greg Evigan, Randy Spelling, Matt Cedeño, Robert Carradine, Dennis Hopper, and Michael Madsen.
As Trevor drifts through Texas on collision course with a nightmare, he is still haunted by the evils of the war he recently returned from, and a promise he failed to keep. When a stranger offers a ride, Trevor finds himself battling the brutal homegrown evil of the Broderick family at Hoboken Hollow, a remote West Texas ranch that many visit but few ever leave.
Tropes:
- Agony of the Feet: When Weldon is fitting a noose around Archie's neck, he drives a knife through Archie's foot to pin him to the stump he is standing on so he doesn't move.
- Alliterative Title
- The Bad Guy Wins: Although the epilogue tells how the various underlings were rounded up, Mrs Broderick and Weldon escaped justice and are showing restarting the slave operation in the closing scene.
- Bunker Woman: The film ends with Terri Wallace being stunned with a cattle prod by Mrs Broderick and shoved down the old well to await her fate.
- Dirty Cop: The final scene reveals that Sheriff Greer is in league with the slave ranch.
- Electric Torture: Junior, Lois, Clayton and Eldon use electric cattle prods to maintain among the slaves on the ranch, and for their own sick amusement.
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Weldon Broderick speaks like this, but it disappears when he drops his Obfuscating Disability.
- Excrement Statement: When Lois, Junior and Clayton are torturing Andy, they order Preston to piss on him, and Preston obliges with perhaps a little too much willingness: looking to settle an earlier score.
- The Family That Slays Together: Weldon Broderick, with his wife and son, are ranchers who kidnapped random transients, force them into slavery, and have them tortured on daily basis.
- Fat Bastard: Weldon Broderick is a waddling tub of lard, but also the most sadistic of the slavers. His Establishing Character Moment is him running down a hitchhiker For the Evulz.
- Frying Pan of Doom: When Trevor tries to force his way out of the Broderick kitchen, Lisa knocks him out with a frying pan.
- Here We Go Again!: The film ends showing that Mrs Broderick and Weldon have escaped justice and starting up the slave ranch again.
- Hillbilly Horrors: Is about a ranch in south Texas that abducts transients, puts them to work as slaves, then tortures and murders them before turning their flesh into jerky.
- Narrator All Along: Has what sounds a generic folksy narrator introducing characters and commenting on the action as it unfolds. However, the final scene reveals that the narrator is actually Weldon Broderick without his Obfuscating Disability.
- Obfuscating Disability: Weldon Broderick pretends to be mentally retarded to disguise his level of involvement in the slave ranch and to make others underestimate him.
- The Place: A fitting title for the movie.
- The Secret of Long Pork Pies: After they kill their slaves, the staff of the Hoboken Hollow ranch turn their flesh into jerky which Mrs. Broderick sells at her truck stop.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Trevor is suffering PTSD as a result of his experiences in the Iraq War.
- Sinister Southwest: The film is set in Texas.
- Stout Strength: Weldon Broderick is noticeably overweight but is strong enough to hoist a dead body over his head and impale it on a spike hanging from the ceiling.
- Teaser-Only Character: The two unfortunates who are chased and killed during the opening credits.
- The Tooth Hurts: Weldon extracts Archie's gold tooth using a pair of multi-grips.
- Very Loosely Based on a True Story: It is loosely based on the real-life Texas Slave Ranch
. - What a Drag: Weldon drags Archie behind his truck by a noose he has tied around Archie's neck.
