Thanksgiving
There will be no leftovers.
After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan.
Wokeness: 20%
Overall Score: 80%
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45trump47
Eli Roth film
Interracial couple, no other woke
Created: 12-21-2023
Kurt Hansen
80's Style Wokeness. No Problem.
Yeah. There's a heavy duty interracial couple here, but I'll forgive it. Reminds me of the few interracial couple you'll find in 80's horror movies. Not in your face. Not entirely necessary, but whatever. No other DEI shoved in your face. Just blood and guts. Thanksgiving in a fun movie full of blood and guts. I'd recommend it.
Created: 12-27-2023
Pha-Q woke
Solid Horror Movie
Only woke is a token DEI hire and the mixed race couple. The acting is mostly good with the token being the weakest actor making it more noticeable. This is a generally good teen slasher type movie with some pretty good kills and nice blood and gore. Story is nothing original but that doesn't really hamper the film as its well done and entertaining. Worth checking out.
Created: 01-12-2024
DigitalEntombment
Much better than it deserves to be
Thanksgiving is funny, brutal, gruesome and quite fast paced for a 106 minute slasher flick. This movie could have gone so wrong in so many ways. Instead, drawing on the best of Scream without being quite so hamfistedly meta, Roth brings the hammer down quite literally on quirky film comedy built for children and instead creates an unsubtle comedic slasher that has the viewer cheering on as blood and guts literally rain from the sky. The opening scene is absolutely pitch perfect and fills the viewer in on everything they need to know to enjoy the violence to come.
Thanksgiving compares well with Evil Dead Rises, a movie I find myself thinking about while watching the gore and slasher scenes. Much like Rises, Thanksgiving has AAA-quality horrific blood and gore that curls the toes of all but the most stout combat veterans or drug-addled surgeons. Unlike Evil Dead, Thanksgiving has an actual story and character development to fall back on. Between the hatchet kills and grusome oven scenes is a mystery.
The acting is forgettable and largely average with the sole standouts being Patrick Demsey as the Sheriff and Rick Hoffman's lovably hatable Thomas Wright. Hoffman is such a charismatic shithead that his smile alone carries half the scenes he is in. Every single female actor is basically the same character with little verisimilitude. Jenna Warren (Yulia) is so marble-mouthed at certain points that I had to check if English was her first language before criticizing her. This is probably my main knock against the movie, but it is a rare slasher fan who is going for the great acting and emotionally-laded soliloquy.
In every other respect, this film delivers and is one of the best of 2023. I will probably not rewatch it casually, but I am looking forward to both Roth's next film (Borderlands) and the Thanksgiving sequel.
Thanksgiving gets 7.9 out of 10 final girls.
Created: 02-26-2024
