Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Since it's so close to the holiday, we decided to review ThanksKilling this week. It's dumb and bad, but in the best way. In this episode, we give out review, play a round of Taglines, and share what Horror Movie Talk is thankful for.

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The full movie of Thankskilling can be found streaming for free on Youtube and also on Amazon Prime. Here is the trailer:

https://youtu.be/nPlg9U5YbY4
ThanksKilling Trailer

ThanksKilling Synopsis

Thankskilling is about a group of “teens” that are terrorized by an ancient killer turkey. The turkey, named Turkie was summoned after the very first Thanksgiving by a disgruntled Native American. Turkie has laid dormant for over 500 years until he is awakened when a dog pees on his grave. A group of friends on their way home for Thanksgiving are then terrorized by the fowl fowl. They then band together and work to destroy the homicidal turkey.

Review of ThanksKilling

This movie is not a great movie. It’s actually pretty terrible. But it does hit the sweet spot of being bad enough to enjoy, which is exactly what they were going for. The acting is bad, and the writing is awful, but there are some shining moments. Any scene that features the killer turkey is very entertaining, mostly because it’s so cheap and stupid. But, I’m a sucker for cheap and stupid, so the steady drip of Turkie moments kept the viewing experience from being completely miserable. It’s only 66 minutes long, but you will definitely feel every second of that 66 minutes. Considering this movie was filmed on a budget of $3500, it is actually a rousing success.

Score for ThanksKilling

3/10

Spoilers for ThanksKilling

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The Opening

This movie has what I call a strong opening. The very first image, even before the soundtrack plays is a big 'ol boob. Just one. Taking up the whole frame.

Then it pans back to a frightened Pilgrim woman with chest exposed running away from an unseen terror. When she trips, the villain is revealed.

A demonic turkey utters the first line of the movie:

Nice Tits Bitch!-Turkie

And then a feathered hand raises holding a bloody axe and comes down killing the chesty milkmaid.

Cultural Appropriation

The legend of Turkie is that he was summoned by a disgruntled Native American to murder the pilgrims. He is essentially eternal, but only kills every 505 years.

In the current generation, Turkie is summoned by his grave being peed on by a dog. Please note that Turkie's grave marker is a tiny totem pole. This is, I assume, because it is a close approximation of a cross?

The Crew

You can't get more generic than the horror archetypes in this...