A generation ago, film director Eli Roth made Hostel: Part II, one of the most heinous things, never mind movies, on the planet – a film of lingering torture sequences, bad faith, worse misogyny and galling laziness.
Now Roth has made Thanksgiving, based on a mock trailer (two minutes, 19 seconds) he shot that same year in 2007, for the Quentin Tarantino-Robert Rodriguez double feature Grindhouse. And get this: Thanksgiving works. It’s predictably gory but, at its best, unpredictably nimble.
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Summary:
Two-thirds of a good, legit horror movie.
