Comeuppance Reviews "Hoboken Hollow" is a disappointment.The plot: Trevor (Connery) is a war veteran trying to take life easy and hitchhiking his way to California. While hitchhiking, a trucker named Clayton (Howell) asks him for help on his ranch. Trevor agrees only if he can leave the next day. Trevor finds out very quickly that the ranch is filled with deranged lunatics who like to torture and kill their helpers.It's a good idea for a movie but it just doesn't work because the pacing is lethargic and the scares are minimal. Howell does a decent job as one of the killers, but Connery is wooden.If you're thinking "Hey, Madsen and Hopper are in it! It can't be all bad...." well, I'm sorry, you're wrong this around. Hopper is in this for about two minutes and he basically says the same line over and over: "I'll give you a lift to the next town". Madsen has it worse because once again, as in "The Covenant: Brotherhood Of Evil" he has an obviously phony mustache. 2005 was the "glued on facial hair stage" in his career. One more thing: Anthony Michael Hall was one of the producers of this mess. Odd...."Hoboken Hollow" is a very poor flick, that you should only watch if you're a Madsen or Hopper completist (I've seen "Tycus" and "The Prophet's Game" with Dennis and "Flat Out" with Mike. I deserve a medal. Not Really.) For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

mm-39 My wife rented this movie help! I would not have rented this film. My wife made me watch the whole movie and I suffered just like the victims in this film. Where too begin! The film quality looks like a hand held camera, or camera phone. Yikes, the acting looks improvish! The story is just shock value. Has been actors like Hooper, Madison and Rober Carridine who need the work are there just to suck you in like the victims at the ranch. Huge plot holes. Why would the bad guys give the forced worker a chainsaw? I would be a very deranged victim and would have used the chainsaw. Stupid! I give this film one for their is no minuses for the rating board. Soon to be in the 99 cent buy bin in a video store near you. Don't walk Run away from the box or face my fate. The crap is like the horror movie videodrome the real horror is not the movie but watching it. O the horror of being bored too death.

Poe-17 I grew up in the "fruit tramp" years. My family went from camp to camp in season; cherries, apples, peaches, pears ... whatever harvest was up, that's where we were. Not Texas but California, Oregon and Washington state. There were all these tales about ranches that picked up workers and the workers were never heard from again. Those horror stories were a part of my real past. So this film touched base with my early fears. Since then I've learned how much of that was myth, but also how, a little slice, some of it was true.Texas got the headlines but it wasn't an isolated thing. Some of the scary stories of my youth weren't tall tales.Hoboken Hollow is exaggerated cinema but has roots in an ugly reality. And it wasn't just immigrants, poor American's too, working to better themselves. During those years, many went from poverty to okay to middle class working on various ranches.It could have been better but I'm startled that the story was even told. It's the second half of the Grapes of Wrath.Just my opinion.Hoboken Hollow is a sub par film tackling a thin slice of history. It wants to address the subject but lacks the info to do so. Kudos to the attempt.I think it was honest - partly.

Paul Andrews Hoboken Hollow is set in west Texas where three vagrant hitchhiker types, Andrew (Kingsly Marin), Howie (Rudolf Martin) & Archie (Erick Brubaker) have all been picked up by & offered work by a couple of guys named Clayton (C. Thomas Howell) & Junior (Jonathan Fraser) who run a ranch out in the sticks called Hoboken Hollow, unfortunately for the three hitchhikers they soon wish they had been left at the side of the road as working at Hoboken Hollow is quite literally torture. Owned by the Broderick family life at Hoboken Hollow is tough, you are forced to work all day, you barely get any food, you don't get paid, you get treated like dirt & if you try to escape you end up in pieces hanging from meat hooks. However ex-soldier Trevor Lloyd (Jason Connery) has other ideas...Written, co-produced & directed by Glen Stephens I have mixed feelings about Hoboken Hollow, I sort of liked it & hated it in equal measure. The script starts off extremely promisingly in an isolated way out in the sticks The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), The Hills Have Eyes (1977 -2006) & Wrong Turn (2003) sort of way as it sets the story up. Unfortunately while I was hoping for a slick, nasty atmospheric gore filled slasher by the mid way point of Hoboken Hollow I thought I was watching a prison drama as the story settles down & focuses on the trials & tribulations of the workers rather than the activity of the homicidal Broderick's, I'm all for a good story but this goes off the rails so to speak & once it had settled down I started to find myself becoming bored & a bit disinterested. Having said that it's still a decent little horror/thriller with some nice exploitation, some rape & a fair bit of torture although the final twist is as obvious as they come & I'm not convinced the guys kept there would have been so co-operative, I mean why didn't they just take the chainsaw they had been given to chop wood & use it against their captors, torturers & eventually murderers? I know I would have at least tried to get away & a good old fashion chainsaw would have made for a decent weapon, right? I'm confident I would have been able to convince my captors to hand over the keys to the pick-up truck with the aid of a trusty chainsaw.Director Stephens does a fine job, Hoboken Hollow is surprisingly well shot & has that isolated, baking hot Texan outback feel to it. The family & their house reminds of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre although Hoboken Hollow is more graphic & doesn't go for atmosphere or scares as much. The gore is OK, there's a severed arm, a severed foot fed to the pigs, someones leg is repeatedly stabbed, someone is impaled on a large spike & there's some torture where people are hanged, electrocuted & peed on. I think this is one of those films where you think you see more than you actually do.With a supposed budget of about $1,100,000 Hoboken Hollow is very well made with impressive production values & it actually looks like a proper film, the special effects are decent & there's a surprisingly good cast here including Sean Connery's son Jason! I wonder if his dad's seen Hoboken Hollow because if he has I'd be more than interested to know what he thinks of it! Michael Madsen, the great Dennis Hopper, Robert Carradine & Michelle's sister Dedee Pfeiffer who I haven't seen since her role in Vamp (1986)!Hoboken Hollow is OK overall but I thought it had both good & bad points, unfortunately the bad points are pretty crucial to how I feel about it. It's an OK watch but I'd be hard pushed to recommend it to anyone.