Today the horror slasher Thanksgiving is finally released in home theaters. Eli Roth’s film was initially created as Fake trailer for the double feature Grindhouse, which includes Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror and Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof. The trailer was so well received by fans that Roth… the axe-wielding serial killer for sixteen years finally brought to the screen, which really shakes up the holidays.
Thanksgiving appears in the home theater Blu-ray * and DVD *. As bonus material you can look forward to cut scenes, the audio commentary and Gagreels. Alternatively, you can also buy or rent the slasher on Amazon Prime Video *.
That’s what the scary shocker Thanksgiving is about
The American holiday of Thanksgiving is followed by Black Friday and this time the small town of Plymouth is actually experiencing a “Black Friday”. After Riots end in tragedy, a year later a serial killer comes to town and massacres one resident after another. While the sheriff (Patrick Dempsey) tries to find out who is behind this masked ax murderer a clique of friends launches a counterattack.
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Thanksgiving: A slasher delight for horror film fans
Eli Roth has already taught us the horror with shockers like Cabin Fever, Hostel and The Green Inferno. With Thanksgiving he succeeds Homage to slasher flicks with holiday themes such as Halloween, Black Christmas or Bloody Valentine’s Day. And the long wait was worth it because Thanksgiving is over Over-the-top gore experience with biting humor as the rating site Rotten Tomatoes summarizes. Here the holiday killer received 84 percent of positive reviews from critics.
Other critics also agree on this conclusion, with Total Film saying that Thanksgiving is “sick and incredibly entertaining“. Collider calls him “disgusting, bloodthirsty, gross and tons of fung”. In the review of our sister site FILMSTARTS, Stefan Geisler writes:
Teenage relationship dramas and clique fights come together here morbid whodunit game. But in contrast to Wes Craven, Eli Roth takes a much more coarse approach to his work: […] if the kills here are a whole again another dimension of evil achieve than with Ghostface.
With Thanksgiving a new horror film has emerged that… Makings of a franchise has. Part two has already been commissioned and Roth is working on the script.
This time the sequel shouldn’t take 16 years to arrive. Although Roth wanted to take his time to present a well-developed script, he did The start date is next year considered.
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