Addison RaeandPatrick Dempseyare facing down a serial killer dressed as a pilgrim in a new holiday-themed slasher.
On Wednesday, Tristar Pictures released the official trailer for directorEli Roth’s new movieThanksgiving, a long-awaited horror film based on afaux trailerRoth, 51, created that ran in theaters during the 2007Robert Rodriguez-Quentin Tarantinodouble featureGrindhouse.
The new trailer meets citizens of Plymouth, Massachusetts and Nell Verlaque’s character on Thanksgiving as she recounts the events of a deadly Black Friday incident at a local department store. Meanwhile, Dempsey’s sheriff character asks a colleague to “show some enthusiasm” for the holiday, before the movie’s killer breaks into a diner’s kitchen and murders an employee.
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Gina Gershon and Patrick Dempsey in ‘Thanksgiving’.Pief Weyman
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As the murders continue, the police note that the killer appears to be using holiday-inspired weapons — corn on the cob holders and an oven are utilized toward deadly means — to commit the killings.
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“Will the town uncover the killer and survive the holidays…or become guests at his twisted holiday dinner table?” the synopsis adds.
Image from the new horror movie ‘Thanksgiving’.Courtesy of Tristar Pictures
Roth toldCinemaBlendback in 2010 that he intended to flesh out the original fake trailer, which also featured a killer pilgrim, into a feature-length film. In 2016, he told fans in aReddit Ask Me Anything threadthat he still needed “to put some more work into it so the film lives up to the trailer.”
Roth, known for the horror favoritesCabin FeverandHostel, conceived the story with screenwriter and friend Jeff Rendell, the killer pilgrim fromThanksgiving’soriginal fake trailer. Aside from Rae, Dempsey and Verlaque, the movie also stars Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Rick Hoffman and Gina Gershon.
Thanksgivinghacks its way into theaters Nov. 17.
source: people.com
