Eli Roth's "Thanksgiving" is based on a mock trailer from 2007's "Grindhouse"*. As Roth loves to show some of the most grotesque things imaginable, this movie gives us the goods. It's got some of the most shocking kills that I've ever witnessed onscreen.
As it happens, I had just learned of John Carver a few days before seeing this, having watched the 1952 movie "Plymouth Adventure", about the Pilgrims' journey across the ocean (as you may have suspected, it was one of the most inaccurate movies ever). Imagine how shocked the Pilgrims - all of them religious fundamentalists - would've been to learn that one of their leaders would get used like this.
All in all, a truly fun movie. A nice counterweight to the overly wholesome things people do for the holiday. In other words, I'm thankful that this movie got made.
*Roth, a friend of Quentin Tarantino, filmed the mock trailer as a favor to him. Tarantino later cast Roth in "Inglourious Basterds" as the Bear Jew, who enjoys bashing in Nazis' heads.
As it happens, I had just learned of John Carver a few days before seeing this, having watched the 1952 movie "Plymouth Adventure", about the Pilgrims' journey across the ocean (as you may have suspected, it was one of the most inaccurate movies ever). Imagine how shocked the Pilgrims - all of them religious fundamentalists - would've been to learn that one of their leaders would get used like this.
All in all, a truly fun movie. A nice counterweight to the overly wholesome things people do for the holiday. In other words, I'm thankful that this movie got made.
*Roth, a friend of Quentin Tarantino, filmed the mock trailer as a favor to him. Tarantino later cast Roth in "Inglourious Basterds" as the Bear Jew, who enjoys bashing in Nazis' heads.