{"id":50149,"date":"2026-11-09T02:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T01:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/patrick-dempseys-thanksgiving-horror-movie-is-worth-revisiting-this-holiday-season\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T02:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T01:35:43","slug":"patrick-dempseys-thanksgiving-horror-movie-is-worth-revisiting-this-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/patrick-dempseys-thanksgiving-horror-movie-is-worth-revisiting-this-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Dempsey&#8217;s Thanksgiving Horror Movie Is Worth Revisiting This Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2306498\/patrick-dempsey-thanksgiving-horror-movie-worth-revisiting-holiday-season\/\" data-post-id=\"2306498\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"Patrick Dempsey's Thanksgiving Horror Movie Is Worth Revisiting This Holiday Season: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Sheriff Eric Newlon sitting at his desk in Thanksgiving\"\/>                                            <\/p>\n<p>TriStar Pictures                      <\/p>\n<p>Eli Roth&#8217;s 2023 slasher flick &#8220;Thanksgiving&#8221; 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&#8217;s sheriff, Eric Newlon (Patrick Dempsey), to figure out who&#8217;s been taking some Turkey Day-related revenge.<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t too many scary flicks centered around this particular holiday, but Roth&#8217;s film has now joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/1096603\/the-best-thanksgiving-horror-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\">the modest pantheon of Thanksgiving horror movies<\/a> that includes Brad F. Grinter&#8217;s schlock classic &#8220;Blood Freak,&#8221; the utterly absurd &#8220;ThanksKilling,&#8221; the pointed anticapitalist flick &#8220;Black Friday,&#8221; and Oliver Blackburn&#8217;s &#8220;Kristy.&#8221; Indeed, Roth&#8217;s &#8220;Thanksgiving&#8221; is the perfect horror movie to watch this November, or any November, really. Like most of his other R-rated offerings,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2306498\/patrick-dempsey-thanksgiving-horror-movie-worth-revisiting-holiday-season\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TriStar Pictures Eli Roth&#8217;s 2023 slasher flick &#8220;Thanksgiving&#8221; 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[2469,36],"class_list":["post-50149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-moviestv","tag-horror-movies","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}