YMMV / Hobo with a Shotgun

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• Awesome Music:
  • Several tracks, however the John Carpenter inspired Plague Theme "Hunters" by Power Glove takes the cake.
  • The use of Lisa Lougheed's "Run With Us" (the closing theme for The Raccoons) on the closing credits can be seen as an odd example, but can hit a serious nostalgia button if you were a fan of the show.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: There's a scene where Rip and Grinder are fighting an octopus. Word of God says that the octopus is their friend, which actually doesn't clear things up in the slightest.
• Catharsis Factor: All the villains in the movie are utter scum, so when Hobo kills them in many brutal ways, it's a joy to watch.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The whole movie runs on this trope. Here are a couple examples:
  • Beating a man to death with baseball bats? Disturbing. Three topless women beating a man who's hung by his feet like a pinata, followed by Drake slashing his guts open with a razor-covered baseball bat and the girls cheering? Bloody Hilarious.
  • Likewise the scene with Logan getting decapitated. Getting his head chopped off with barbed wire? Horrible. A woman in a bikini and fur coat dancing in the blood fountain? Hilarious.
  • Ivan's skin frying after his foot gets stuck in a toaster? Brutal. But then...
    Ivan: HE MADE ME CUM!
  • Ivan and Slick are a goldmine for this. After burning a bus of schoolchildren, they deliver a video message to turn on the homeless in the most over the top manner.
    Ivan: WE'RE GONNA KILL THE REST OF YOUR CHILDREN!
  • Ivan declaring how he'll run the show after he's Drake's only son left.
    Ivan: They're gonna make comic books out of my hate crimes!
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Rip and Grinder, aka The Plague, a duo of psychotic demon bounty hunters who appear to have strolled in out of a completely different film. The filmmakers tried to get them their own spinoff movie.
• Evil Is Cool: Motherfucking Rip and Grinder! Seriously, a badass, demonic Psycho for Hire duo who have assassinated multiple historical figures ... what's not to love?
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • The unnamed Hobo himself was once a defenseless man too powerless to fight back against the crime and corruption of Hope Town, until he found a shotgun. After killing some robbers and paying the pawn shop owner for the shotgun, the Hobo commences a war against crime by killing every criminal he can find, frequently using deception to lower his opponents' guards, or killing them while they're distracted. Brutally killing all kinds of criminals no matter how minor their crimes are, when the Hobo finally gets the Drake in his sights, the Hobo anticipates his own demise at the hands of the police, happily acknowledging to the Drake that he'll be heading to Hell alongside him, with the Drake "riding shotgun!"
  • Rip and Grinder form "the Plague", a badass demonic duo who hire themselves out as hitmen and bounty hunters. Killing since ancient times, with some of their previous targets including Abraham Lincoln and Jesus Christ, the Plague are hired by the Drake to bring him the Hobo. Tracking him down at the hospital, the Plague kill every doctor in their path and capture the Hobo by posing as his friend Abby in order to lower his guard. Should one of them fall, the other will have them replaced by their killer to extend their immortality, with Rip attempting to have Abby take Grinder's spot after she kills him, though leaves her be at the Hobo's request.
• Moment of Awesome: Abby's tussle with The Drake at the end of the movie in which, after getting her hand messily destroyed with a lawn mower, she turns it around and repeatedly shanks him with the exposed arm bone!
• Moral Event Horizon: It's a lot harder to see Slick as the Draco in Leather Pants after he incinerates a bus full of children.
• Narm: The dramatic scenes are equally as bizarre as the rest of the film. While some may find them Tear Jerkers, others might find them simply silly, which pretty much doesn't hurt your enjoyment.
• Narm Charm: While the film was clearly intended to be So Bad, It's Good, it's incredibly competently made and Rutger Hauer puts in a performance that would be career-defining from any other actor (and only not so for Hauer because Blade Runner exists).
• Nausea Fuel: The level of Gorn in this film is certainly not for those with weak stomachs.
• Nightmare Fuel: Slick and Ivan torch a school bus of kids, the shot of the kid against the window is chilling.
• So Bad, It's Good: Invoked. Since it was adapted from a fake trailer for the Grindhouse series, this is to be expected.
• Spiritual Licensee: This may just be the best Hotline Miami film ever made. There's over-the-top violence, gangsters in white suits, tons of color, 80s-style synth music, and even some drug influence in the plot.
• Tear Jerker: A few scenes manage to evoke this, surprisingly. Slick and Drake's last conversation and the Hobo's speech to the infants pull off a certain amount of emotion.

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