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realjediverse · 7 months

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Thanksgiving" is Going to be a Unique & Disturbing Horror Movie!

I just watched the trailer for the new horror movie “Thanksgiving” directed by Eli Roth, and I’m really excited about it! It looks like a bloody and twisted take on the holiday classic. The trailer opens with a montage of happy Thanksgiving scenes, but it quickly takes a dark turn. We see a woman being attacked with a turkey leg, and a man being stabbed with a carving knife. The killer is…

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#Addison Rae #Eli Roth #Gina Gershon #Jalen Thomas Brooks #Jeff Rendel #Milo Manheim #Nell Verlaque #Patrick Dempsey #Rick Hoffman #Roger Birnbaum

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brokehorrorfan · 4 months

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Thanksgiving will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on January 30 via Sony. Directed by Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever), the 2023 slasher is currently available on VOD.

Based on the faux-trailer from 2007’s Grindhouse, the film is written by Jeff Rendell. Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, and Gina Gershon star.

No word on what, if any, special features will be included at this time.

After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan. Will the town uncover the killer and survive the holidays.... or become guests at his twisted holiday dinner table?

Pre-order Thanksgiving.

#thanksgiving #eli roth #slasher #patrick dempsey #addison rae #milo manheim #jalen thomas brooks #nell verlaque #rick hoffman #gina gershon #dvd #gift #horror #grindhouse #jeff rendell

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lserver362reviews · 4 months

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I too would kill for Gina Gershon. This gave me such I Know What You Did Last Summer vibes. When hot old Patrick Dempsey said "dinnah" I laughed. A lot of the heavy accents made me laugh, really. I was surprised there was no casual use of the R-word, that really would've sent it over the top Masshole-wise. Some of the editing felt sloppy at first, but for the most part it was well paced and kept me in the story. The sound editing really shined for me in places, like when a scream turned into car tires screeching. Also I must must say that I thought Nell Verlaque was excellent. Bring her into the Scream franchise please. Speaking of which, was the cat, Dewey, a shout-out? I feel like this is how you balance anti-consumerist messaging into a slasher, and can we just point out how the men in this movie exhibit a lot of healthy conversation skills? These were good characters! For what it is, I really enjoyed it, even though I did convince myself that Milo Manheim was a son of Ray Romano. Makes me wish Barbarian (2022) was written by Jeff Rendell.

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rickchung · 2 months

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Thanksgiving (dir. Eli Roth).

Nothing could possibly ever live up to that original 2007 Grindhouse fake trailer, so it was wise Roth didn't even try by going ahead and crafting a rather straight-ahead contemporary, holiday-themed teen slasher thriller. There's just enough schlocky style and Turkey Day bloody, gory violence to entertain audiences.

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fearsmagazine · 6 months

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THANKSGIVING - Review

DISTRIBUTOR: TriStar Pictures

SYNOPSIS: After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the holiday. The killer dons a pilgrim outfit and a John Carver mask as he begins picking off residents one by one. What begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan. Will the police or a local high school group of friends uncover the identity of the killer or become guests at his twisted holiday dinner table?

REVIEW: What started as one of the fake trailers created for Quintin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse Double Feature in 2007 comes to realization this 2023 holiday season. From the genre aficionado Eli Roth, THANKSGIVING embraces the vast history of slasher films to deliver a near perfect take on a killer infused holiday tradition.

The narrative never takes itself too seriously as it pulls out all the stops when it comes to slasher films. There are some corny, but not cliched, one liners that are served up as the relationship between the high school friends and the adults feels like a “Scream” film. The film is all about the ride, so you never fully empathize with the characters but there is enough there to hook the viewer. Roth and Rendell weave a fair number of misdirections and red-herrings to keep the viewer guessing, and their reveal features a montage to help the viewer connect their dots. I will say that I thought that there might have been two killers and looking back on the timing after the reveal seems a bit problematic. However, that is probably more a result of the editing than the narrative. The plot is filled with references to many classic slasher films and is sure to have fans comparing notes afterwards.

I enjoyed the film’s production values. Roth is a master of the genre and knows how to craft an energetic film and craft killer effect sequences. He excels at misdirection and plays on the viewer’s expectations like a skilled poker player. Given Roth’s past films, the deaths feel more like gags. There are WTF moments and somewhat gory scenes, but the filmmaker seems to have toned down the blood without compromising on the gore. In contrast to the film’s opening sequence at the “Right Mart,” the parade scene looks a little thin and not as tightly shot, but it is a small town and what floats there are in the sequence look great. I enjoyed Brandon Roberts’s score. There are movements that sound like homages to other films, but plenty of original material to set a unique tone for the film. The production designs are costumes that create cinematic magic to fully immerse the viewer for the entire ride.

I like the cast. Clearly everyone is in for the ride as well and balances the dark comedy and horror with exceptional results. Veteran actors Dempsey, Gershon and Hoffman are excellent and their younger cast members are splendid. It’s a great ensemble cast.

If you’re a fan of slasher films, THANKSGIVING is sure to leave you satisfied. There are some gags that should transcend your expectations, and several surprises along the way. Some are simple, others complex and gorey, and there will be blood but, again, not as much as you might expect from a Eli Roth genre film. Many of the deaths are served up with satire, but I wouldn’t expect less from a killer dressed up like a pilgrim.

THANKSGIVING is well with the wait of these past 16 years since the grindhouse trailer. Roth embraces the current state of the genre as the film focuses on the story and satire without any of the teen sex scenes in some of the classic slasher films. Teen relationships figure in, as does an excellent rave scene. It’s a wickedly delightful film that is sure to be a crowd pleaser and seems destined for a sequel that could only be “Black Friday,” with maybe a third film, “Cyber Monday.” Eli, let's talk!

CAST: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman and Gina Gershon. CREW: Director/Screenplay/Producer - Eli Roth; Screenplay/Producer - Jeff Rendell; Producer - Roger Birnbaum; Cinematographer - Milan Chadima; Score - Brandon Roberts; Editors - Michel Aller & Michele Conroy; Production Designer - Peter Mihaichuk; Costume Designer - Leslie Kavanagh; Special Makeup Effects Artists - Joe Badiali, Jason Detheridge & Adrian Stansfield; Prosthetics Designers - Adrien Morot & Steve Newburn; Special Effects Supervisor - Andrew Verhoeven; Visual Effects Supervisor - Berj Bannayan; OFFICIAL: www.thanksgiving.movie FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/tgivingmovie TWITTER: twitter.com/tgivingmovie TRAILER: https://youtu.be/KbU50SdL8zA?si=-vMIK75E0pFP4at- RELEASE DATE: In Theaters Nov 17th, 2023

**Until we can all head back into the theaters our “COVID Reel Value” will be similar to how you rate a film on digital platforms - 👍 (Like), 👌 (It’s just okay), or 👎 (Dislike)

Reviewed by Joseph B Mauceri

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bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews · 6 months

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Thanksgiving (18): Carving up a slashing treat.

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "Thanksgiving". #ThanksgivingMovie. A fun, gory, slasher-horror that ticks all the right boxes. 4/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Thanksgiving” (2023). There is virtually nothing novel about Eli Roth’s “Thanksgiving”. We are firmly in teen-slasher territory, with a masked figure terrorising the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. But, that being said, there’s a certain exhuberant energy behind the mayhem that makes the whole thing far more entertaining than most recent horror offerings. Bob the…

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moorheadthanyoucanhandle · 6 months

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TROUBLE WITH THE CARVE

Opening this week:

Thanksgiving--Slasher movies of the '70s and early '80s were often holiday-themed. Black Christmas, Halloween, My Bloody Valentine, Silent Night, Deadly Night, New Year's Evil and April Fool's Day are all examples, while Friday the 13th and Happy Birthday to Me, while not strictly about holidays, are still tied to special dates and the convenient unity of time they provide. But Thanksgiving was somehow the major holiday the genre seemed to miss.

There actually were a couple of little-remembered attempts--Home Sweet Home in 1981 and Blood Rage in 1987. But neither seemed to count, perhaps because they didn't use the holiday in the title, or perhaps because they didn't sufficiently exploit the gruesome possibilities offered by the day's rituals. Whatever else may be said about it, the newly-made but self-consciously old-school slasher picture Thanksgiving works hard to include every classic Turkey Day trope.

A shoppers' riot and stampede at a store that shouldn't be open on Thanksgiving leads to bedlam and grisly death in a small Massachusetts town. "One Year Later"--as a subtitle traditionally informs us--a figure in the mask and garb of a Pilgrim skulks around exacting vengeance on those deemed responsible for the disaster. Everything eventually converges in a ghastly sit-down dinner.

The film traces its inception back to 2007, when two movies, the Robert Rodriguez shocker Planet Terror and Quentin Tarantino's stunt thriller Death Proof, were released as a double feature under the joint title Grindhouse. In and around the two features, the show included several "fake trailers" for fictitious grindhouse-style movies. Two of these have already wagged the dog as the basis for real features, Machete (2010) and Hobo With a Shotgun (2011); Thanksgiving marks the third.

Directed by Eli Roth, the Thanksgiving trailer in Grindhouse captured the nastiest, most low-rent atmosphere of a vintage gore movie, complete with scratched, faded footage, some really sleazo shocks, and the smarmy, glottal tones of the narrator (Roth himself?). You could almost believe it wasn't a put-on.

The new feature, directed by Roth from a script by Jeff Rendell, doesn't try for this level of faux-authenticity. The setting is contemporary, the budget clearly comfortable, and cell phones and social media figure prominently in the plot. But the movie still has a nice old-fashioned pace and structure and flavor, and the nostalgia of this is much of what makes it unsavory fun.

I'll admit that in recent years I've largely lost my stomach for slasher flicks. Moreover, I thought Roth's 2002 debut feature Cabin Fever was an interesting misfire at best, and I took a pass on his 2005 torture flick Hostel. But he strikes an affectionate tone here, and he employs techniques that distance us from compassion for the victims. Most simply and effectively, he makes many of them, especially the early ones, deeply and amusingly unsympathetic.

The cast is livened up by some veterans, like Patrick Dempsey, Rick Hoffman and Gina Gershon, and the "final girl" (Nell Verlaque) has a lovely presence, and unlike so many heroines back in the day, she fights back, resourcefully and successfully. It was also great to see Lynne Griffin, the first victim from 1974's Black Christmas--and the Hamlet figure in the Bob and Doug McKenzie movie Strange Brew--in a bit here.

Most notably, the film keeps it light. As with two other movies from earlier this year, Cocaine Bear and Renfield, Thanksgiving goes in for extreme, over-the-top splatter effects, and they aren't scary, nor do they seem meant to be. They aren't even all that gross. There's no visceral substance to them; the bodies of the victims go to pieces like gingerbread men, and the effect, seemingly deliberate, is cartoonish slapstick. We're about as likely to take their suffering seriously as that of Wile E. Coyote.

Maybe it's how entertainment like this works best: as a sort of anarchic Punch and Judy show, using humans instead of puppets. Like Thanksgiving dinner, it wouldn't be healthy to consume this sort of thing every day, but about once a year, it can hit the spot.

#thanksgiving #eli roth #patrick dempsey #rick hoffman #nell verlaque #addison rae #gina gershon #jeff rendell #quentin tarantino #robert rodriguez #grindhouse #cocaine bear #renfield

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floorman3 · 6 months

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Thanksgiving Review- Roth Creates A Feast For the Eyes If Your A Horror Fan, But Not Much Else

The Grindhouse was a double feature film that came out back in 2007. The pair of films Death Proof and Planet Terror was directed by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Between the two films for trailers for other films that weren’t actual films until Machete came out and now another one is coming out this holiday season called Thanksgiving. There won’t be any leftovers this Thanksgiving. …

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#Eli Roth #Gina Gershon #Jeff Rendell #Nell Verlaque #Patrick Dempsey #Plymouth Rock #Quentin Tarantino #Robert Rodriguez #Sony #Thanksgiving #The Grindhouse #Tristar

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geekcavepodcast · 7 months

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Thanksgiving Trailer **Graphic**

One year after a Black Friday riot, a killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts. "Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan. Will the town uncover the killer and survive the holidays…or become guests at his twisted holiday dinner table?" (Sony Pictures)

Thanksgiving is directed by Eli Roth from a screenplay by Roth and Jeff Rendell. The film stars Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, and Gina Gershon.

Thanksgiving hits theaters on November 17, 2023.

#thanksgiving #eli roth #jeff rendell #patrick dempsey #addison rae #milo manheim #jalen thomas brooks #nell verlaque #rick hoffman #gina gershon #sony pictures #TGCLiz #Youtube

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bkenber · 5 months

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An Ultimate Rabbit Video Review: 'Thanksgiving'

So here I am with another video review of a recent movie release. This time it is for Eli Roth’s “Thanksgiving,” a movie which was promised to us ever since Roth made his fake “Thanksgiving” trailer for 2007’s “Grindhouse.” But while that trailer came across as a send-up and satire of the many slasher films we grew up with over the years, this one is more of a reboot of what came before. It also…

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darkmovies · 5 months

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#news #cinéma #actualité #acteurs #filmmaking #Eli Roth #Jeff Rendell #Spyglass Media Group #Thanksgiving 2 #TriStar Pictures

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realjediverse · 8 months

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THANKSGIVING Movie Trailer is Promising!

The teaser trailer for Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving has certainly gotten people talking. The trailer is only 30 seconds long, but it packs a lot of punch. We see a family gathered for Thanksgiving dinner, but something is clearly wrong. There are hints of violence and tension, and the overall atmosphere is unsettling. The trailer ends with a shot of a masked figure standing in the shadows, holding a…

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kevinsreviewcatalogue · 5 months

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Review: Thanksgiving (2023)

Thanksgiving (2023)

Rated R for strong bloody horror violence and gore, pervasive language and some sexual material

Score: 3 out of 5

Thanksgiving is a movie that feels like a remake of itself. Specifically, a 2000s Platinum Dunes slasher remake, rather appropriately given that the film began life as a fake trailer for the 2007 film Grindhouse homaging the retro holiday slasher flicks of the '80s, with a mix of depraved and gory deaths, phenomenally stupid characters, and low-budget sleaze. It's an idea that has been bouncing around in director and co-writer Eli Roth's head for years, and even as he went on to make other movies, he never gave up on the idea of turning it into a feature film the way that Machete and Hobo with a Shotgun, two other fake trailers attached to Grindhouse, had been. The film he and co-writer Jeff Rendell ultimately made feels like a film that's ultimately, after sixteen years, wound its way from being an homage to '80s horror to being an homage to '00s horror, the decade in which Roth cut his teeth as a filmmaker, filled as it is with elements of that era's slasher flicks that now seem old enough to be nostalgic in their own right. It homages a lot of the trailer's more memorable scenes, but wraps them in a package that's at once darker and grittier but also slicker and more polished, with a big-name cast (a mix of veteran actors like Patrick Dempsey and Gina Gershon, Disney Channel stars like Milo Manheim, and influencers like Addison Rae) paired with exactly the kind of violence you'd expect from a filmmaker who was once considered one of the leading figures behind the "Splat Pack" of ultraviolent 2000s horror movies. Most importantly, it's a movie I enjoyed, even if I'll be the first to admit that it's no classic, or one of Roth's best. It's a fairly by-the-numbers whodunit teen slasher cut from a very post-Scream cloth that doesn't have a lot of surprises, but does have some solid thrills and chills that I suspect are gonna ensure that it gets rewatched a fair bit by horror fans around the Thanksgiving holiday.

Set in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the film opens with a Black Friday riot at RightMart instigated by a mix of the store's owner Thomas Wright deciding to open early on Thanksgiving night and a group of teenagers, including Thomas' daughter Jessica, managing to sneak in early and provoke the crowd outside when they see them. Three people die in the ensuing stampede, a security guard, a shopper, and the wife of the store's manager, while the high school baseball team's star pitcher Bobby gets his arm broken, killing his sporting dreams. One year later, a killer in a Pilgrim costume and a mask of the Plymouth Colony's first governor John Carver is hacking up people connected to the "FightMart" riot, on a quest for revenge. Now, the teens, along with the local sheriff Eric Newlon, must figure out who's behind the murders before they're the next to die.

It's a simple slasher plot of a sort that we've seen a million times in the last twenty-five years, and it was honestly a fairly predictable one. The killer's identity is telegraphed pretty early on, it wasn't much of a surprise when the big reveal came, and the main plot was rather boilerplate once you scratch the surface. You've got a lot of archetypal teen horror movie stock characters (the aggro jock, the sexy best friend, the shifty boyfriend, the cool geek because it's 2023 and unpopular nerds don't work anymore, the girl who you know is gonna make it to the end and defeat the killer) who largely stay within their lane, as well as adult supporting cast members who are there to serve as cannon fodder and/or suspects. The plot involving the store's greedy management was established in the first act but never really built upon after. It's not altogether completely disposable from a writing standpoint, but this is still a teen slasher movie, and you don't watch these films for particularly in-depth plotting and characterization unless you see an A24 plate on the opening credits.

No, you watch because you want the goods. You want stabbings, decapitations, dismemberment, mutilations, and more, all vividly displayed on screen in ways that earn this movie an R rating. And when you've got the guy who made Cabin Fever and Hostel behind the camera, that's what you're gonna get. This movie comes alive when it's time to kill, and it doesn't care how ridiculous it gets with the bloodshed. The deaths range from the deadly serious to the awesome to the comical (one death in the opening Black Friday scene involving a man literally shopping 'til he dropped had me in stitches), but no matter what, when John Carver is doing what his name suggests, that's when it felt like Roth was most invested in the material. There's one lengthy chase scene late in the film, climaxing with one of its best and most gruesome kills, that I think is gonna go down as one of the classics. The gore is plentiful, and it is icky and gross.

The cast was surprisingly good for a movie like this. Nell Verlaque may not have had much of a character to work with as Jessica beyond "the final girl", but she did it well, in particular giving great "scared face" whenever she was confronted by the killer or realized that her friends were in danger. Patrick Dempsey made for a good authority figure as the sheriff, and if you're wondering how Addison Rae did, she actually wasn't bad. Finally, the actor playing the killer was wonderfully hammy after the big reveal, and I wouldn't have accepted anything less given the kind of movie this was, delivering the most ridiculous dialogue ("this Thanksgiving, there will be no leftovers!") with the straightest face without even once winking at the camera. On every technical level, this movie was at the very least competent, and never wore out its welcome.

The Bottom Line

Thanksgiving could've stood to have a bit more meat on its bones story-wise in order to make the parts between the kills more interesting, but the kills were plentiful and grisly enough, and its other qualities competent enough, that I could forgive it. Even if it's just from lack of competition, I see this sticking around as a go-to Thanksgiving/Black Friday horror flick.

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averyblair · 4 months

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End-of-Year Reading List, 2023:

Below is a full list of the 64 books I read this year.

I was indiscriminate in what I counted towards this total. The only requirement was that it was a published book (self or traditional), and I finished it. There are 100 page novellas and 1000 page titans. Several were consumed as audiobooks. Some are fact and some are fiction. Each developed my own style and ability, and that is their relevance to this blog.

This list is alphabetical by author surname, and where an author has multiple books on the list, by release date.

An asterisk (*) indicates I re-read the book in 2023, but read it for the first time one or more years ago.

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Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin A. Abbott

The Amityville Horror - Jay Anson

Verona - Benedict Ashforth

The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker

The Marriage Lie - Kimberly Belle

Hekla’s Children - James Brogden

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Tell No One - Harlan Coben

The Hunger Games* - Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire* - Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay* - Suzanne Collins

The Girl You Lost - Kathryn Croft

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

The Wonder - Emma Donoghue

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen - Elizabeth Ford, MD

Gone* - Michael Grant

Hunger* - Michael Grant

Lies* - Michael Grant

Plague* - Michael Grant

Fear* - Michael Grant

Light - Michael Grant

The Torment of Rachel Ames - Jeff Gunhus

The Appeal - Janice Hallett

The Twyford Code - Janice Hallett

A Foxcub Named Freedom* - Brenda Jobling

The Grand Hotel - Scott Kenemore

Misery - Stephen King

Under the Dome - Stephen King

Fairy Tale - Stephen King

Yellowface - Rebecca F. Kuang

The Wall - John Lanchester

The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri

Songbirds - Christy Lefteri

The Haunted - Bentley Little

The Handyman - Bentley Little

Lessons - Ian McEwan

Soon - Lois Murphy

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

Eight Detectives - Alex Pavesi

3:00 a.m. - Nick Pirog

Tell Me Lies - J. P. Pomare

One Across, Two Down - Ruth Rendell

The Killing Doll - Ruth Rendell

The Water’s Lovely - Ruth Rendell

Liar’s Bench - Kim Michele Richardson

The Cove - L. J. Ross

The Creek - L. J. Ross

Elektra - Jennifer Saint

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Unnatural Causes - Dr Richard Shepherd

All the Murmuring Bones - A. G. Slatter

Dracula* - Bram Stoker

Spare - Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

The Game You Played - Anni Taylor

The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Tale of Halcyon Crane - Wendy Webb

The Time Machine - H. G. Wells

The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells

Foul Play Suspected - John Wyndham

The Day of the Triffids* - John Wyndham

The Chrysalids - John Wyndham

The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham

Chocky* - John Wyndham

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

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tengomilpalabrasparati · 4 months

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"Black Friday/Thanksgiving"

Al director Eli Roth le precede su fama. No solo por ser el protegido y pupilo de Quentin Tarantino. También, por su capacidad al desafiar las expectativas de los fanáticos del género de terror.

Para comenzar, la película está hecha a la medida de las tradiciones que rodean a la festividad titular, a la que ironiza con crueldad.

La trama, ambientada adecuadamente en Plymouth (Massachusetts) no pierde el tiempo en dejar claro, que su propósito es la brutalidad. Pero no la de un asesino — no de inmediato ni en forma exclusiva — sino en algo más elaborado. Por lo que la primera secuencia comienza como una estampida de compradores embrutecidos por la avaricia que termina en un hecho violento a gran escala.

La cámara del cineasta no deja de moverse de un lado a otro y brinda la sensación que la crueldad no es ajena a ninguno de sus personajes. Para la ocasión, utiliza el recurso de la grabación de una cámara de móvil, con la pericia suficiente para que lo que ocurre sea cada vez más desagradable y claustrofóbico.

Pero la cinta no quiere dar sermones ni le interesa particularmente algún punto ético. La multitud enardecida, que transforma la tradicional compra de Black Friday en un horror colectivo, es despiadada y anónima. Como si se tratara del anuncio de un asesino en serie escondido entre ella.

Después de la impactante secuencia de apertura, la trama avanza un año para mostrar que el dueño de la tienda en la que sucedió la tragedia, no aprendió mucho del incidente. De hecho, planea de nuevo reabrir, a pesar de que su hija — y cualquier personaje sensato a su alrededor — insiste en que no lo haga. Eli Roth juega entonces con la posibilidad de deshumanizar todavía más la idea de brutalidad y de la violencia sin límite.

Por lo que la llegada del asesino titular (con una apropiada máscara de John Carver) parece una consecuencia y una forma de justicia retorcida. Pero de nuevo, el guion Jeff Rendell no tiene el menor interés en dar lecciones sobre cómo ser un buen ciudadano.

Por lo que convierte a su asesino, en una máquina de matar. Una imparable, con habilidad en diversas armas asombrosas y sin duda, con más sed de sangre que con un propósito real. A menos, que ese sea el matar, de la forma más dolorosa posible, a todos los sobrevivientes de lo acaecido en la escena inicial.

"Thanksgiving" se convierte en una colección de cabezas cortadas, órganos colgantes y gritos de pánico, en una especie de siniestra seguidilla de horrores satíricos. Con la sangre muy roja salpicando incluso la cámara, es notorio que la película es un chiste negro que se hace más depravado a medida que avanza la trama.

El argumento narra las diferentes pistas y logra que descubrir quién se esconde detrás de la máscara se convierta en una burla. A la celebración de Acción de Gracias y también, a la moralidad de la que la película ironiza en cada oportunidad posible.

Si te gusta el terror te va a parecer entretenida, de lo contrario es bastante floja jugando el clásico truco de famoso que aparece en la peli y no es el prota ¿Quién puede ser el asesino?

Parece que habrá 2º parte ... aunque no es necesario

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