Holiday themed horror films are nothing new with with films like Halloween , My Bloody Valentine and Black Christmas being considered classics. Well now we have another holiday themed horror film to add to that list and it's one that i've been really waiting to see and well after days of trying to get a review of this film going i've now finally really got the chance to see and review this film and so then join me as I review the film that is the latest in a long line of fake Grindhouse trailers to get adapted into full length feature length films with the film in question being called simply just "Thanksgiving" enjoy.
The plot of this film is one year after a riot sees the deaths of several people a small town finds itself being terrorized by a masked killer and it's up to one of the townsfolk and her friends to work out who is killing the members of this town and why before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in his very film was in all honesty really not that bad with this films plot being really entertaining and alot better then what it really had any to be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Patrick Dempsey as Sheriff Eric Newlon , Nell Verlaque as Jessica and Addison Rae as Gabby. Also starring in this film is Jalen Thomas Brooks as Bobby , Milo Manheim as Ryan , Rick Hoffman as Thomas Wright , Gina Gershon as Amanda Collins , Tomaso Sanelli as Evan , Gabriel Davenport as Scuba , Jenna Warren as Yulia , Karen Cliche as Kathleen , Jeff Teravainen as Deputy Bret Labelle , Jordan Poole as Jacob , Joe Delfin as McCarty , Ty Olsson as Mitch Collins , Mika Amonsen as Lonnie , Shailyn Griffin as Amy , Tim Dillon as Manny , Amanda Barker as Lizzie , Chris Sandiford as Doug , Derek McGrath as Mayor Cantin , Lynne Griffin as Grandma and Adam MacDonald as The Voice Of The Carver.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in his very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With alot of this films cast turning in some fairly solid performances which was truly shocking as the vast majority of this films cast are a bunch of unknown actors as such it's not the best idea to expect good or even great acting from them and what really does help the acting in this film is not only the fact that this films director ad producer Eli Roth knows how to direct his cast but it's also because of the fact that the script for this film is good that all the cast have to do is just the say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.
This film is the latest fake trailer from the 2007 film "Grindhouse" with the film joining Machete and Hobo With A Shotgun in being fake trailers being turned into movies. With this film really being a passion project for Eli Roth as it's been talked about since 2010 with this film not really being all that faithful to the original trailer as there's only one maybe two scenes from the trailer that make their appearance in this film which is to be expected but the original fake trailer could have made a really fun and campy throwback horror movie but I will admit that thus film foes do the fake trailer by not only including elements from the fake trailer but also by being a really rather fun interpretation of the original fake trailer.
Rather surprisingly this film does include some rather likable main characters with alot of the main characters being quite likable. Which was something that wasn't really expected as alot of the characters in Eli Roth's films aren't typically likable characters with them nine times out of ten being more unlikable then the main villains and yet it was quite shocking to see nearly all of this films main characters being rather likable but also being fairly well written as well as while yes we do get some rather unlikable characters in his film here it felt like that that was the point with it really working into what the film was meant to be commenting on instead of being an example of some really bad screen writing.
In a rather shocking move this film is also somewhat of a mystery with the cast trying to work who this killer is and why there killing people suddenly. Yet it's this aspect of the film that really doesn't work a that well as the film really doesn't give you any kind of clues as to who the killer ad as such when the film does reveal who the killer it comes out of nowhere as we aren't given any clues to work it for ourselves with this not really being helped by the fact that the film doesn't even give us any potential suspects either both of which are key to making a mystery work as both allow for us the audience to not only get sucked into the story but to also work out who the main killer is and why there killing all of these people.
This film is shockingly doing lot better then was to expected with it so far having earned twenty two million dollars against a fifteen million dollar budget. With the film also beating several films at the box office chief amongst which is the new film by writer and director Taika Waititi this just goes to show that you don't have to be a well known director or direct an huge franchise film in order to beat films from well known directors as at the box office as all you need to do is make a good film with good characters and the audience will go to see your film with this film being very well written with mostly very well developed characters and given just how much money that this film gas earned so far at the box office it's all but guaranteed that e'll be seeing a sequel to this film at some point in time as Eli Roth would have a huge hit film, on his hands.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty nine minuets and nineteen seconds. Which is pretty much the exact running time that you'd expect a film like this one as when you get right down to it this film really doesn't have alot their interms of lot to cover anything longer then it's current running ad to this films credit it does do the most that it could possibly do with that running time and while I would have liked it if this film was longer as that would mean that alot of the characters could be fleshed out alot more then what they presently are if this film was to have a much longer running time tho it would be stretching an already thin story even thinner and I will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it..
So now then as this is a slasher film that means tat means that to have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With the film giving us alot of really cool , gory and creative kills but rather oddly enough the best kill of the entire movie isn't even one that the killer does as it's the opening kill that's the best kill in the movie as it's a more dark and twisted version of the opening scene from Krampus with there being alot of really cool and gory moments in that one scene alone with all of which going along way to making it the best kill scene in the whole entire movie in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a really cool and fun movie that really does deserve all of the good reviews that it's been getting as it really is just that good of a movie that could so easily become a holiday classic in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
