Thanksgiving Non-Fake Trailer And Poster

Slasher flick Thanksgiving from director Eli Roth is almost upon us, with an official poster and trailer now dropping to tide audiences over until the movie’s release in November. The project started as part of Grindhouse, a double feature consisting of Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror and Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof. In-between the film were trailers for non-existent coming attractions, some of which were made into feature length films. This year, Thanksgiving finally joins the likes of Machete and Hobo With A Shotgun. Check out the trailer for the full-length movie version of Thanksgiving below (via Rotten Tomatoes):

For frame of reference, here’s a link to the original Grindhouse trailer (via Facebook), which played alongside never made classics like Werewolf Women of the S.S. and Don’t. Fair warning, there’s some very explicit content in it. There are several decapitations, nudity, human-turkey hybrids doing acts that human-turkey hybrids probably shouldn’t be doing, and the trampoline scene (good luck not flinching at the trampoline scene).

Here’s what Roth told Rolling Stone about the film back in 2007:

“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.'”

The lead role in Thanksgiving will be played by Addison Rae, a social media star, singer, and actress. Her previous film roles include Spy Cat and He’s All That, with Rae having also appeared as herself on Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Addison Rae Goes Home, plus a couple of other television appearances. Thanksgiving will be her first horror project, unlike some of her fellow cast members.

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Thanksgiving Features a Familiar Line-up of Other Horror Stars

Patrick Dempsey, who some of you may know from Grey’s Anatomy also stars in Thanksgiving alongside Addison Rae. Of course, horror genre fans would likely be more familiar with him for his portrayal of Detective Mark Kincaid in Scream 3, a character who would also be alluded to in 2022’s Scream and Scream VI. Early reports indicated that Dempsey was being eyed to play a lawman in Thanksgiving as well, the town sheriff in fact, a role that was played by Michael Biehn in the Grindhouse mock trailer.

Another cast member is Gina Gershon, who was in an infamous movie called Showgirls, which you could probably argue is a horror movie. Besides that low-hanging fruit of mockery, Gershon was also recently in the Chucky episode “Death on Denial,” in which she played a fictional version of herself in an episode that guest starred Jennifer Tilly and Joe Pantoliano. It goes without saying that “Death on Denial” is infinitely more amusing if you’ve actually seen the movie Bound, which the three of them starred in.

Thanksgiving also stars Rick Hoffman, who you probably know from Suits. If you do, you might also be surprised by his appearance in Hostel, Roth’s second feature film. As opposed to playing an antagonistic, but sympathetic character like Louis Litt, he plays a twisted and depraved human being who signs up to enthusiastically torture an innocent tourist at the titular hostel.

Thanksgiving is scheduled for release on November 17.