![]() The result - although highly anticipated, finally arriving to theaters 16 years after it first entered the imaginations of horror fans everywhere - winds up seeming like a bunch of different films, through which an inexplicable Patrick Dempsey, lately People’s Sexiest Man, wanders dazedly like a lost crew member from another movie set. Instead, Thanksgiving gets caught between competing impulses: It wants to satirize society, and also wants to be a classic campy slasher, and also wants to be sort of operatically, dramatically arty about it all. ![]() With a subject that’s both as inherently fraught (Colonial history! Indigenous genocide!) and inherently silly (Awkward family dinners! Turkeys!) as Thanksgiving, the plan should probably be: Not very! Roth ( Hostel) always loves a good gorefest, and this one is no different - but he tends to hover just around the edges of social satire, which in this case seems to leave him unsure how seriously to take his own film. Unfortunately there’s an uneven tonal quality to this film that reminds us to be grateful for directors who can commit to the bit. The film’s tagline - “This Thanksgiving, there will be NO LEFTOVERS!” - suggests a campy, silly time at the movies. ![]() Eli Roth’s new film Thanksgiving bills itself as a tongue-in-cheek slasher about a killer stalking the streets of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the holiday.
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