Hoboken Hollow (2006)

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Hoboken Hollow is one of those films that makes you think two words: If Only. If only the writing had been a little better with more intriguing dialogue. If only the acting had been a little better (which is surprising considering it has Michael Madsen, Dennis Hopper, and C. Thomas Howell). If only a little more had gone into the plot to make the film seem unforced and cohesive.Premise: A guy is hitchhiking his way to California after returning home from the war. A stranger offers him a lift to his ranch he works at and wants to know if he wants a job. Guy agrees but says it can only be for one day. The horrific events that follow on the "ranch" are beyond brutal and it i safe to say you would never wanna go there.Gory scenes make up a lot of stuff. It is not SCARY just more of an uncomfortable collage of messed up violence. This move could have been great instead it just kinda lays there.4.75 out of 10 stars. Only watch it if you TRULY love the genre or need some gore.

Although not the worst movie I have seen,it seems a lot of people didn't like this movie.I did like the one comment and their summary was "what is it with Texas".It is such a typical place where you'd expect something like this to happen. I don't believe this movie was real and at the end of the credits it is sort of confirmed when it says all characters and events are fictitious. I believe something happened, and believe it could happen.I love horror movies although the really gory ones are my least favorite.I am always interested in viewing a new one and I liked that C. Thomas Howell was in it because I like his acting.I watched the unrated version of the DVD.I found the movie disturbing and extremely disgusting but I got into it.There was 1 scene where I literally nearly threw up when Trevor was hiding right deep inside a toilet of an outhouse full of sh*t and...,well you can imagine the rest.I thought the effects in this film were quite good for a low budget movie.A few people commented how disturbed they were by the rape of Teri.Yes it was disturbing, but the men that were being tortured was also disturbing and a lot of them were killed and eaten. I was angry that this hideous family got away with all that they did and that there was no justice.I wanted to see that ugly bitch Lois and her demented husband Junior pay for what they did.I don't understand why the Trevor character or even a few others didn't try to organize an attack on their captors,especially since they had access to weapons including a chainsaw.I was hoping Andrew Gates really would have used the chainsaw on that freak Lois like he wanted.I liked Randy Spelling as Parker and almost thought he would turn on the Broderics and help free the others. Yes the movie did stir up some rage because it was well acted and I can't imagine some innocent person having to go through something like this.And it's tragic that none of the victims were missed and nobody cared!I hope that this part isn't true of the real events that occurred.

As a European who has now seen umpteen horror movies set in Texas I have to ask: what is it about Texas? There are always people going along the road, a clear blue cloudless sky (clear blue is the new thunder, and lightning, and sunlight is the new Gothic)and they always meet and very foolishly take the mickey out of people with squints, slow gaits and terrible teeth, who are all in cahoots with each other: the lady in the shop is in on it. The sheriff is in on it. The cleaner is in on it. So are the cats, dogs, pigs, goats, octogenarians and five-year-olds. All evil killers. There can't be a single honest homestead in the whole of Texas, or at least homes where the inhabitants are not cannibalistic are in the minority.This film was a disappointment, being identical, in almost every way, to other films about homicidal Texan families that I have seen, but featuring poorer acting and less atmosphere.

I chose this movie on a damp bank holiday weekend when funds were low and there was nothing on TV. The video shop had very few options, and to cut a long story short - I've had a thing for Michael Madson ever since Thelma and Louise, and even Kill Bill 2 (at a push).Not only was he barely in it, he looked fat!!! "Never mind," I thought, "this is meant to be really scary and should be good," snuggling up to my boyfriend and turning the lights down low.By the end of the film, my boyfriend was barely speaking to me, half furious, half bemused he stuttered, "I can't believe you brought that DVD in to our house".This really, really is an awful film, the writing is so bad the "scary" bits are hilarious, so poorly acted that the "moving" bits are, again, hilarious. The characters are far-fetched and the plot is ridiculous.The Dennis Hopper good cop/bad cop thread is predictable and boring, the bad characters are like pantomime villains (a woman with five warts on her face?!), the good characters are so dull, boring and naive for getting themselves in to the situation they are in leaves you tempted to track them down and torture them yourself... the rape scene was the only part of the film I found difficult to watch - and that is merely because rape in itself is a disgusting act that makes most people uneasy, and not that I was moved by the crude/ludicrous representation of such abuse by lame acting and the vision of ol' five warts lingering in the door way licking her lips... it was borderline insulting.At the end I didn't care what happened, I just really didn't care. Incidentally, I also chose March of the Penguins on the same trip to the video shop.... How an unsuspecting an unpaid penguin can give off more screen presence and charisma is beyond me.