As holidays go, Thanksgiving has always gotten short shrift when it comes to exploiting the horrific potential of the day. I suppose all that family gathering stuff is terrifying enough.
On the short list of turkey day terrors I'd like to see are 1981's HOME SWEET HOME which features an escaped mental patient making his way to a family's Thanksgiving celebration. Currently out of print, the flick commands big bucks for copies of the DVD and VHS releases. More promising is the 2009 low-budget flick THANKSKILLING which takes a more straightforward approach and features a homicidal turkey. Gobble, gobble, motherf*&%er, indeed.
Of course, no discussion of Thanksgiving horror is complete without a fresh look at Eli Roth's faux trailer for his slasher flick titled, duh, THANKSGIVING (included with GRINDHOUSE, finally bowing in its original form on BluRay on Tuesday, October 5). Though Roth has suggested that he'll go the MACHETE route and spin the gag into a full-length feature there's part of me that's just fine with the glorious three minutes shown below.
Are there any other gobble gobble gorefests I should be adding to my viewing list?
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