Time to gobble up Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving teaser
Eli Roth's fake Grindhouse trailer is now a real trailer for a film coming out November 17, starring Patrick Dempsey and Addison Rae
Film News Thanksgiving
The prophecy has finally been fulfilled: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is a real movie, and it has a teaser. The film, which began life as a gag in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse, will now officially premiere on November 17—and a teaser released on Thursday breathes new life into an old faux-classic.
Longtime Thanksgiving fans will be glad to see some of the memorable moments from the original trailer in the new teaser, including the Thanksgiving Day parade and the cheerleader bouncing on a trampoline in the gym. (Whether she goes out the same way she does in the Grindhouse version remains to be seen.) The slasher has some new tricks up its sleeve, as well, including a gruesome kill in a walk-in freezer. After more than 15 years of fan fervor over the fake film’s taglines (“You’ll come home from the holidays… in a body bag”) the new Thanksgiving poster proudly reminds us all, “There will be no leftovers.”
Roth previously recalled to Entertainment Weekly being asked, alongside Edgar Wright and Rob Zombie, to make a faux-trailer. “Quentin was like, ‘We’re doing this thing called Grindhouse,’” he said. “‘There are going to be two 60-minute movies. We want some fake trailers, and we want you guys to each do one.’ We were like, ‘Fuck yeah!’” (Rodriguez made his faux movie, Machete, in 2010.) The filmmaker has been talking about making Thanksgiving pretty much since then, musing in 2009 (via ScreenRant) that “There’s an energy to that Grindhouse trailer for Thanksgiving that, for me caught the spirit of the movie.”
Thanksgiving’s spirit is brought to life by stars Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, and Gina Gershon. Roth co-wrote the film with Jeff Rendell. Get ready to eat good this holiday season!
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so he made an entire movie in the time between shooting borderlands and releasing borderlands?
No, he made an entire movie in the time between being replaced on Borderlands and releasing Borderlands.
VFX are a hell of a drug.
i think it’s gone through like 4 sets of reshoots, including some not done by roth.
Cripes, this is less interesting than the Grindhouse trailer…
that trailer was really misogynistic, but Roth has always been gross, a mystery why he gets work…then again Grindhouse was also fucking terrible so no surprises
You sure you clicked on the right video? There’s not a “misogynist” moment in the trailer… Just curious, can you even DEFINE what a “woman” is? If not, misogyny should hardly be something you even care about.
All the Sensitive Ones want to know: WHY CAN’T SLASHER TRAILERS BE MORE GENTLE AND COMFORTING???
They didn’t say it wasn’t gentle and comforting, they said it was misogynistic. There are, in fact, slasher movies that aren’t misogynistic. Hope this helps!
the turkey baster, the knife through the trampoline, you’re just an incel
Are you talking about the original Grindhouse trailer? I can see how the gratuitous nudity and sex in that fake trailer could be viewed as misogynistic, but I’d say that that’s more a case of parodying the sexual politics of the source material (although, with Roth, it’s always tough to gauge what is satire and what is the real deal).If you mean this new trailer, I’m really not sure which part you’re talking about? Did I miss something? Is it just the fact that some of the victims are women?
here the thing about exploitation film, they’re exploitative. Its in the name.
I dunno, the whole fun of the fake trailer was the sendup of sleazy low-budget 80’s horror. If you take away the 80’s aesthetic, it just becomes a…generic modern horror.
So some Puritan psycho is killing teens in a small town. Where are all the guns, cowboy hats and John Krasinski? Totally unrealistic. /s
Frankly, I’m more interested in seeing Nicholas Cage as Fu Manchu.
It’s all part of his master plan.
Way to strike while the iron’s hot, Roth
We as a society have moved past the need for Eli Roth.