There was Halloween revisited by John Carpenter, Rob Zombie and David Gordon Green. Thanksgiving, horror week by Eli Roth takes on a new, typically American holiday. Patrick Dempsey, recently voted “sexiest man of 2023” by the magazine People He plays a sheriff on the trail of a very inventive serial killer. To take revenge for an accidental death during sales, the maniac prepares a very special festive dinner.
He began the work in 2007 by making a fake trailer for Thanksgiving placed between Boulevard of Death by Quentin Tarantino and Planet Terror by Robert Rodriguez when they were screened as a double bill. It took him several years to finalize the feature film of what was initially only a short parody.
A well-cooked recipe
“We said to ourselves that we were going to do a 2023-style reboot of the film that we advertised in the fake 2007 trailer,” laughs Eli Roth. It freed our imagination. »And not just a little! Only the lettering of the short format credits remained recognizable. For the rest, the director of The Green Inferno And Knock Knock gave it his all while respecting the spirit of the works that made him shudder. The viewer finds himself in familiar territory with just the right amount of novelty to spice things up.
A turkey like no other
Everything comes together to make Thanksgiving a bloody madeleine for fans of slashers who once haunted video clubs. This is what makes the charm of this well-crafted little horror film, rich in amusing and macabre ideas.