Thanksgiving (2007)

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Eli Roth

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Mark Bakunas
The Deputy

Vendula Bednárová
The Cheerleader

Chris Briggs
The Vomiting Cousin

Jay Hernandez
Bobby

Jordan Ladd
Judy

Liliyan Malkina
The Grandmother

Jeff Rendell
The Pilgrim

Eli Roth
Tucker

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Description: Parody of holiday slasher movie trailers. Eli Roth's contribution is a promotion for the slasher opus Thanksgiving. Produced in the style of holiday-themed slasher films such as Halloween, Silent Night, Deadly Night, April Fool's Day, and My Bloody Valentine, the trailer starred Jeff Rendell as a killer who stalks victims while dressed as a pilgrim; Jordan Ladd, Jay Hernandez, and Roth himself as his intended victims; and Michael Biehn as the Sheriff. The design for the titles in Thanksgiving was based on a Mad magazine slasher parody titled Arbor Day. Excerpts of the score from Creepshow were used in the faux trailer. Acc Parody of holiday slasher movie trailers.

Eli Roth's contribution is a promotion for the slasher opus Thanksgiving. Produced in the style of holiday-themed slasher films such as Halloween, Silent Night, Deadly Night, April Fool's Day, and My Bloody Valentine, the trailer starred Jeff Rendell as a killer who stalks victims while dressed as a pilgrim; Jordan Ladd, Jay Hernandez, and Roth himself as his intended victims; and Michael Biehn as the Sheriff. The design for the titles in Thanksgiving was based on a Mad magazine slasher parody titled Arbor Day. Excerpts of the score from Creepshow were used in the faux trailer.

According to Roth, "My friend Jeff, who plays the killer pilgrim – we grew up in Massachusetts, we were huge slasher-movie fans and every November we were waiting for the Thanksgiving slasher movie. We had the whole movie worked out: A kid who's in love with a turkey, and then his father killed it, and then he killed his family and went away to a mental institution and came back and took revenge on the town. I called Jeff and said, 'Dude, guess what, we don't have to make the movie, we can just shoot the best parts.'" "Shooting the trailer was so much fun," Roth has stated, "because every shot is a money shot. Every shot is decapitation or nudity. It's so ridiculous, it's absurd. It's just so wrong and sick that it's right."

Roth's fake trailer contained elements that almost earned Grindhouse an NC-17 rating, including a cheerleader simultaneously stripping, bouncing on a trampoline, and getting stabbed in the vulva, and three decapitations; the first victim dressed as a pilgrim turkey at a parade gets decapitated and his headless body stumbles around in an exaggerated manner, the second occurs as the victim's girlfriend performs fellatio on him, and the last decapitation occurs on a man while he is being kissed by a female victim. According to Roth, "Instead of seeing it spread out in a feature, watching it all jammed together nonstop makes it more shocking. But we had a great discussion with the ratings board. They got it. Once they saw it with all the bad splices and the distress and scratches they were fine with it." Roth confirmed in an interview with Cinema Blend's Eric Eisenberg that he and co-writer Jeff Rendell are working on a possible feature film. ... (more)

Release date: 6 April 2007

Tags: Comedy (1), Horror (1), Short (1), Short Film (1), Slasher (1), Turkey (1), Thanksgiving (1), Holiday Horror (1), Grindhouse (1)

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" Cast : Jay Hernandez, Jordan Ladd, Eli Roth What was it about? Included in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's double-feature, 'Grindhouse', it is the fourth fake trailer out of five. Inspired by classic slasher films from the 80's, Roth's segment recounts the killing spree of the insane serial murderer known as "The Pilgrim" on the 4th Thursday in November. My two cents: To be honest, I thought it was rather tricky to judge this fake trailer. Indeed, on one hand, the damned thing w"

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