Thanksgiving Review: A Gruesome, Cutthroat Horror Comedy

Gratitude is a deliciously twisted horror comedy. Like T West in many ways, it's just Thanksgiving . Directed by Eli Roth, it is a long version of the trailer he shot for Grindhouse in 2007. At the time , Kudos was just a movie trailer. Low-budget brutal horror that never existed. Sixteen years later it is now.

The new film looks like a trailer for holiday horror films like "Black Christmas" and "Silent Night, Deadly Night," but it's more than that. Once upon a time it was completely low budget. - The low-budget horror film has now expanded into an actual Eli Rot film - and it's as gruesome and exhilarating as it suggests. That's all he needs and nothing more. This is completely normal as it's becoming harder to find mainstream spy movies like this.

Thanksgiving takes place in Plymouth, Massachusetts and begins on the night of the same name. The series follows a group of characters who all end up at the same super mall on Black Friday. After convincing his second wife to take advantage of the financial opportunities offered by the business holiday, store owner Thomas Wright (Rick Hoffman) orders his employees to work on Thanksgiving night. Security guards to control everything. Impatient shoppers are literally knocking on doors to get inside. When Thomas's daughter Jessica (Neil Verlac) helps her friends arrive early, she inadvertently upsets everyone waiting outside.

Soon everything descends into chaos: workers are trampled, their throats are slit with broken glass, and unsuspecting innocents are crushed by shopping carts. Characterized by a hyper-consumer culture and careless capitalist choices, this series marks the moment where Thanksgiving meets the dark and comedic promises of the original Grindhouse trailer. Behind the camera, Roth remains a spectator to each act of shocking violence, and the film's opening Black Friday massacre serves as an effective introduction to everything that follows.

A year later, the citizens of Plymouth are terrorized by a masked killer bent on making those present and responsible for the rebellion pay for their sins. With Jessica, Sheriff Eric Newlon (Patrick Dempsey), and the film's other characters trying to discover the identity of the killer, it takes on the familiar structure of a small-town massacre film. The film spends time switching back and forth between quietly haunted paranoia, suburban humor, grisly scenes, murders, and scenes of cartoonish violence. Unfortunately, the film doesn't always strike the right balance between these two.

“Dankie,” which can be as short as 10 minutes, sometimes fails to maintain the light, breezy pace the story needs. It gets lost in the melodic relationships between the teenage characters and doesn't justify all the various subplots and subplots. Jeff Rendell's screenplay gives viewers little reason to worry about whether or not the film will continue, though it seems clear what kind of voice the entire cast will have to maintain and what kind of work they'll have to do. One of them is numbers. . This fact does not completely ruin Thanksgiving , but it does lead to the failure of many of its nonviolent parts.

Overall, however, Roth's latest work is an easily digestible mix of gory horror and black comedy. Not only are the film's kills incredibly quick and quick, they're often presented with a comedic twist that makes some of the more brutal moments easier to digest. Whether it's the unopened waffle iron box into which a Black Friday shopper literally bleeds, or the disturbing use of two racks of corn, Roth never fails to add dark, dark details. Hilarious details perfectly highlight the scariest moments of every Thanksgiving with laugh-out-loud visuals.

Thanksgiving is an undeniably one-note horror film. It's a 106-minute comedy that showcases the strengths of both the award-winning horror director and his much-loved subgenre. We can criticize it for its lack of originality, but that misses the point of appreciation , which is simply giving horror fans a good time at the movies. He succeeds in this almost so brilliantly, that he can easily be forgiven for indulging in external pleasures and murders. Because if a movie can so easily misrepresent something you've seen a million times, why not make a movie that lovingly cooks up the American holiday and repeats the same hit songs every year? ?

Thanksgiving is in theaters now. For related content, please read “The End of Thanksgiving Explained.”

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