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I wonder if you, like me, saw the original Hobo With A Shotgun entry into the faux-exploitation trailer contest in anticipation of 2007’s Grindhouse and declared the competition to be over before it started? From the sublimely evocative concept to the vivid yet gritty circus of violence (not to mention David Brunt’s honest and bona fide performance), the trailer is a two-minute eye-ball massage for the twisted film-lover at heart. While the other eventual finalist trailers were well executed, they sometimes betrayed their superiority-complex to the genre outright, imbuing their work with a ‘Hey-guys-the-70’s-weren’t-as-crazy-as-us!’ cleverness. Hobo, honest to god, felt