C. Thomas Howell, Jason Connery, Mark Holton

With the horrors of war still fresh in his mind, Trevor makes his way through rural West Texas hitching rides from passersby. Just when his luck seems to be turning for the better, the promise of food...( read more  read more... ), shelter and work at a local ranch lures him into the clutches of the murderous Broderick family at their modern-day slave ranch--Hoboken Hollow. Meanwhile, local businessman and millionaire J.T. Goldman begins snooping around Hoboken Hollow for a skeleton in the closet that might help him pressure the Brodericks into selling their land. What he soon realizes is that the drifters who keep disappearing from the local highways have, one-by-one- been swallowed into the Broderick's dirty, bloody and brutal dominion.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Glen Stephens

Release Date: January 1, 2005

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DVD Release Date: April 24, 2007

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  • October 11, 2008
    The creators of this film, seem to have jumped aboard the band wagon and created another backpacker torture film ? unfortunately for them, it isn?t a very good one. It isn't a very original storyline, the whole film was predictable, the characters annoying and the couple of gory...( read more) scenes shown really weren?t worth watching the entire film for.

    I really can?t say a good word about it.
  • June 25, 2007
    This was like a poor man's version of every "Ed Gein inspired" type story out there. Nothing new, nothing very entertaining, and the most ludicrous thing is that all the characters could have escaped the place at any time.
  • April 20, 2008
    wow just seen this 4 the 1st time n think its really freaky....this is not a scary movie but i just found this really freaky/creepy at the same time...this is a decent horror movie but i think that micheal madsen ( from Kill Bill n Resevoir Dogs fame) plays a good part in this m...( read more)ovie...the family are just a bunch of sadistic psychos throughout that tourture innocent victims throughout the movie,,,,i have no idea what his name is in the movie but there's a bloke who sounds like elmer fudd from the looney tunes cartoons :D:D:D...this is just a freaky movie but dennis hopper still steals the movie by playing the bad guy again...some of the blokes in this movie all have nice moustache's,beards,goatees :D:D:D...the director keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout this movie by keeping u guessing whats going 2 happen next
  • December 1, 2007
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    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    Sorry I was laughing at this because the makers...( read more) obviously intended it to be a joke

    *whispering from movie elders*

    WHAT this was supposed to be a serious movie?? Oh gosh darning hell, they managed to hit the comedy genre too without even trying, Well freaking done!!!!

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    Based on the true story of the Broderick Family and their campaign of terror on their Ranch of Hoboken Hollow. This bunch of hill-billy interbred nut jobs have been luring unsuspecting vagrants and hitch hikers to the ranch with the promise of food and shelter in turn for a few days work. However once they are there they refuse to let them leave, keeping them shackled, over worked, underfeed, scared, beaten, psychologically and physically abused and even turning those who rebel into JERKY!!!

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    The film centers around the 5 young men, their efforts to survive the ranch and the interests of local oil Tycoon J.T Goldman (Michael Madsen). See Goldman is desperately trying to buy out Mother Broderick who owns a Shop, Cedar Wood Stock and the Ranch on Hoboken Hollow. She refuses to sell so he starts snooping for the skeleton in the closest that will force the sell. And the skeleton happens to become many (in the well not the closet), and the scandal becomes wide as the local sheriff (Dennis Hopper) Is Mother's Cousin and is actually PROVIDING poor souls for the ranch slavery.

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    Although based on true events and has some potential to be an "ok" movie, I can't rate this well. A 1 star was greatly generous. It starts out like a Mockumentry rather than a film, like a type of dramatized reconstruction for the crime channel type shows, before cascading into chaotic torture and drug allured kinetics. The story flitters between trying to get in facts chronologically and systematically. but sadly descends mostly into an incoherent choppy confusing parody of killing, escape and poor story telling. Whether this is because the facts of the actual cases aren't know that well and they just tried to make a film with the very little know events and surmised the in between parts. Or possibly they just made a shit film.

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    Either way its a real shame because true stories are great material, if left alone and NOT glorified/sexed up. The story almost runs along the lines of a real life The Hills Have Eyes but without the "mutant/Savagery" aspect and is basically the Texan version of Wolf creek. The problem is with both this and Wolf Creek, that they focus too heavily on the Gore and shock value and put the Story on the back burner. There is no substance within the basic idea, yeah we're shown the main players and the important aspects of events and Problems but there is no "skin" on those "bones" (sorry bad pun) It like watching a 3 hour film of WWII and all they say is Hitler was a bad guy who tries to kill some people he didn't like and take over countries he had no right to rule, padding the rest out with video of bombing, battles, mass graves and concentration camp images but not explaining their meaning or significance.

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    However with that said it was rather funny seeing Mr Blonde in a stetson and a Pimp mustache Totally made my day.
  • August 5, 2007
    Fuckin' hurtin' ass horror movie... I could direct a better one given the money to do so.....
  • May 18, 2007
    This is really sick
    It would put you off beef jerky for life!
  • April 10, 2007
    low budget rip of of masacre not bad in places.
  • April 2, 2007
    I want to see it because of C. Thomas Howell. I miss the 80's!

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