TriStar Pictures
Eli Roth’s 2023 slasher flick “Thanksgiving” follows various citizens of Plymouth, Massachusetts, as they find themselves being targeted by a killer dressed as the famed Pilgrim John Carver in the lead-up to the titular holiday. Realizing that these murders are related to a Black Friday trampling incident from the previous year (which led to three people dying), it falls to Plymouth’s sheriff, Eric Newlon (Patrick Dempsey), to figure out who’s been taking some Turkey Day-related revenge.
There aren’t too many scary flicks centered around this particular holiday, but Roth’s film has now joined the modest pantheon of Thanksgiving horror movies that includes Brad F. Grinter’s schlock classic “Blood Freak,” the utterly absurd “ThanksKilling,” the pointed anticapitalist flick “Black Friday,” and Oliver Blackburn’s “Kristy.” Indeed, Roth’s “Thanksgiving” is the perfect horror movie to watch this November, or any November, really. Like most of his other R-rated offerings,
