Films like Hobo with a Shotgun.

Hobo with a Shotgun (2011) reads as Heavy, breathless, extreme crime / action, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009) poster
1. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Super (2010) poster
2. Super2010

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Planet Terror (2007) poster
3. Planet Terror2007

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Boogie (2009) poster
4. Boogie2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a chilly detachment.

REC 3: Genesis (2012) poster
5. REC 3: Genesis2012

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Sheitan (2006) poster
6. Sheitan2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Hatchet (2006) poster
7. Hatchet2006

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

Mom and Dad (2017) (2017) poster
8. Mom and Dad2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a airy, open telling.

The Loved Ones (2009) poster
9. The Loved Ones2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Dog Eat Dog (2016) poster
10. Dog Eat Dog2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022) poster
11. Christmas Bloody Christmas2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

Victor Crowley (2017) poster
12. Victor Crowley2017

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

These are Hobo with a Shotgun’s neighbours — where are yours?

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