Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving: A Full-Length Feature Film Adaptation

Eli Roth has been holding out for the ideal opportunity to adapt the false trailer he made for the movie Grindhouse into a full-length feature film ever since he made the trailer parody in 2007. In typical Eli Roth flair, the original trailer is packed to the gills with cringeworthy puns, over-the-top gory kill scenes, and gruesome disclosures of body parts. Roth’s first attempt at directing was Cabin Fever, a film that Roth co-wrote with his college roommate during the late 1990s and directed by Roth for the first time in 2002. After that, in 2005, he directed the horror picture Hostel, which is when his name became irrevocably tied with the gritty slasher subgenre of horror movies. Since then, his name has been included on a roster of other indie directors collectively called “The Splat Pack.” This group comprises moviemakers recognized for producing violent movies on a shoestring budget. In addition to his writing and director skills, Roth is also an accomplished actor and can be seen in most of his films, if not all of them. His role as Donny “The Bear Jew” Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is widely regarded as his best work, and the performance earned him a nomination for the Critics’ Choice Movie Award.

The Cast of Thanksgiving

• Rick Hoffman

• Gina Gershon

• Patrick Dempsey

• Milo Manheim

• Addison Rae

• Nell Verlaque

• Karen Cliche as Kathleen

• Chris Sandiford as Doug

• Tim Dillon

• Tomaso Sanelli

• Mika Amonsen

• Jalen Thomas Brooks

• Jenna Warren

• Jeff Teravainen as Labelle

• Dorian Giordano as Chad

• Russell Yuen as Detective Peter Chu

• Jordan Poole as Jacob

• Shailyn Griffin

Release Date of Thanksgiving

This year’s Thanksgiving will come early since the movie will be released in theaters on November 17, 2023. The horror movie will have to compete with a large number of other movies, such as the young adult prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, the sports comedy Next Goal Wins directed by Taika Waititi, and the animated sequel Trolls Band Together produced by DreamWorks Animation.

Director of Thanksgiving

Eli Raphael Roth is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor working in the film industry in the United States. As a filmmaker and producer, he is closely linked with the horror genre, specifically splatter pictures. He is most known for his work on the films Cabin Fever (2002) and Hostel (2005), both of which he directed. In 2007, Roth created and narrated the faux trailer for Thanksgiving for Grindhouse. He also participated in Death Proof, the segment of the film that Tarantino directed. For their contributions to Grindhouse, Roth, and co-writer Jeff Rendell were awarded the best “screamplay” prize at the 2007 Spike TV Scream Awards, which they shared alongside Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Rob Zombie, and Edgar Wright. In January of 2023, it was reported that Roth was working on a movie adaptation of Thanksgiving that would be full-length.

Plot of Thanksgiving

The town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, which strongly emphasizes the Thanksgiving holiday, serves as the setting for the film. “Everything is ready for the festivities to begin, but one unexpected guest has shown up… This year, there won’t be any leftovers at all.” When a serial killer sets his sights on the people in the town, he intends to take the lives of as many of them as he possibly can. The most important question that needs an answer is “Why?” Why does the killer choose Thanksgiving to carry out his crime? If one knows Roth, it may be just a guy who wants to fight for the rights of animals raised to be slaughtered.

According to the plot summary provided by Sony Pictures, the movie is about:

Plymouth, Massachusetts, the city credited with being the birthplace of Thanksgiving, becomes the target of a mysterious Thanksgiving-motivated killer after a Black Friday disturbance ending in tragedy.