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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
63
6.6
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
63
68% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
24% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
9% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
63
68% Positive
23 Reviews
23 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.
Roth thinks in hooks and punchlines, which keeps the copious slayings inventive and gratifying while also enlivening the connective tissue between them.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 User Ratings
6.6
63% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
25% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
13% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 User Ratings
6.6
63% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
25% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
13% Negative
3 Ratings
3 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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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.
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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In the 2007 movie Grindhouse, director Eli Roth created a fake trailer for this movie. All these years later, he's realized this full-length version. After a Black Friday riot causes fatalities in Plymouth, a killer sets out for revenge. Roth also led the "torture porn" trend, but he's softened his approach to balance horror with self-referencing humor. The plot offers nothing new and there are gaping holes in the logic. The kills (and that's all that really matters) have some creatively staged gore, but no real tension. The humor revolves around the genre meta references, so it's more about knowing nods than laughs or scares. Oh yes, Patrick Dempsey and Gina Gershon add some B-movie cred. Even so, the tongue-in-cheek humor and quick, gruesome murders will entertain on a surface level, but it's not destined to be a classic. NOTE: Stay thru the credits for one dumb final gag
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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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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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Waste of time, another testament to how Hollywood are running out of ideas. If u want to save urself some time, rewatch “Grindhouse” there is a 5 min short that sums the whole movie up
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