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In Theaters Now
- 2023
- R
- 1 h 46 m
- 2023
- R
- 1 h 46 m
In Theaters Now
- 2023
- R
- 1 h 46 m
- 2023
- R
- 1 h 46 m
Thanksgiving
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6.1
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
62
67% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
24% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
9% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
62
67% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
24% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
9% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
The film is Roth’s, and so expect a silly premise, comic-book violence, and gory set pieces. What you might not expect is the humour. Thanksgiving is funny.
For giddy gore-hounds, Roth’s Thanksgiving is a bloody feast to savour.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 User Ratings
6.1
58% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
21% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
21% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 User Ratings
6.1
58% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
21% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
21% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
I liked it alot as a Eli Roth and slasher fan. If you like late 90s/early 2000s horror flicks than this is for you. Witty humor with some better than expected kills. LA elitism and post modern jargon that destroys most new films was only midly annoying and did not take away from the film.
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It's much more FUN than I figured it would be - an absolute good time, but it was a touch gorier than I might have liked... Some of those Final Destination-style shock kills that I wish I had time to "avoid" (hand over face). Great group of actors... Cool to see Rick Hoffman get that role, and I loved seeing Gina Gershon back on the big screen.
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Roth and Rendell find the perfect balance of humor and horror, understanding the absurdity of their premise while still making their characters buy into the world. What that creates is a film embracing its own silliness, free of irony, while avoiding the pitfalls of oversentimentality.
[Roth] knows his stuff and he’s very adept at serving up both gross-outs and real leap-from-your-seat moments.
I’d place Thanksgiving halfway between “fair” and “good.” Inevitably, Roth can’t keep his baser storytelling and filmmaking instincts at bay forever.
The Cult of Roth will almost certainly eat this holiday horror feast up. But this turkey is never more than a mixed bag, and as the laughs peter out and the “clues” are contrived to fit the finale, “Thanksgiving” takes that tryptophan turn towards nodding off, the curse of Turkey Day since that first Thanksgiving — in Virginia.
It’s as scary as a pumpkin pie left in the oven too long. Instead of horror, it’s pretty funny.
Works well as a teen horror slasher, the whodunnit aspect is not great as you can feel the plot intentionally misleading you. Good kills, fun concept, I'm sure there will be more.
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Fantastic effects with creative deaths. Unfortunately, the writing is a mess, with the movie just suddenly ending unexpectedly. They also went the lazy horror route of making every character as caricatures that are so damn annoying or straight up evil so you don't care if they die.
Probably much more enjoyable inebriated at home for bad movie night than seeing at the theater
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Similarly to Terrifier, Thanksgiving seeks to numb you with its dose of gore to the extent that you're left with only two choices: either you love it, or it becomes so comically absurd that you find it laughable. In this case, there's no middle ground.Regrettably, the movie totally overlooks any trace of creativity and, most importantly, scares. It neglects any attempt to generate tense or involving sequences; it's exclusively fixated on brutality.From my perspective, this approach gets monotonous when there's no diversity in the mix, and Thanksgiving just keeps adding more bloody meat to the broth until the experience becomes saturating and you start to get sick of it.
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Pretty horrendous. I mean, so much wrong with it, I could write an essay on it. But to keep it short, and save any poor **** from getting drawn in by the decent score it has right now-- this movie is garbage.
Characters ****, the characters don't have a brain, there's no logic, there's so much pointless **** in the movie, the whole theater was laughing at how stupid the movie was at some points, the villain made no sense, they had no coherent clues, honestly, i wouldnt be surprised if the directors had no **** clue who the murderer was when they were done filming, so they rolled a dice and went with whoever came up. i mean seriously garbage. And some more points, the effects were horrible, the only reason this is even considered horror is because they have a jumpscare every 10 minutes, and they had absurd kills.
It's not a zero because there was some entertainment factor, from how stupid some of it was, and how the film was somewhat visually appealing.
Long story short, it's garbage, don't waste your time, nor your cash, the 20 bucks I forked over for this is 20 dollars more than this movie should have made.
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