Some screenings of Grindhouse (mainly in Canada) also featured a fake trailer for a film titled Hobo With a Shotgun.
The trailer, created by Dartmouth, Nova Scotia filmmakers Jason Eisener, John Davies, and Rob Cotterill, won Robert Rodriguez's South by Southwest Grindhouse trailers contest. In the trailer, a vagabond with a 20-gauge shotgun becomes a vigilante. In the trailer, he is shown killing numerous persons, ranging from armed robbers to corrupt cops to a pedophilic Santa Claus.
The trailer was available in certain selected movie theaters in the United States and Canada.The trailer is currently being made into an actual full-length feature starring Rutger Hauer as the hobo. Filming is taking place in the Halifax area.
