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Your typical bunch of college boys and girls - the jock (Lance
Predmore), the good girl (Lindsey Anderson), the slut (Natasha Cordova),
the likeable fat guy (Aaron Ringhiser-Carlson) and the nerd (Ryan
E.Francis) - go on a roadtrip to visit their parents back in their
hometown for thanksgiving ... but on the way, their car breaks down, and
while they spend the night around the campfire, the nerd tells them a
horror story about a killer turkey who kills exclusively on thanksgiving.
Of course, as soon as he ends his story, several but not all of our heroes
see the turkey, and while some are scared shitless, others think the story
is just mumbojumbo. Effectively though, they are only saved from a turkey
attack by a hillbilly (General Bastard) whose dog was killed by the turkey
and who's now out for a vengeance. The next day, our youngsters finally
get home, but the turkey has followed them, and after he has killed pretty
much everybody's parents, he kills the slut, just because she's a slut,
and the fat guy, because he always thinks about food. The nerd however
finds a (black magic-)way to kill the turkey, and our three survivors
succeed ... but are stupid enough to drop the turkey's body into a nuclear
waste-bin, which brings him back to life to kill the nerd and the jock,
before the good girl gets him for good ... For good? Nope, he has an
afterlife as thanksgiving dinner, and he might jump back into action from
the dinner table in the sequel ... If above synopsis sounds as
silly as it sounds formulaic, it is because the film is just that ... but
that said, ThanksKilling is totally aware of this and
self-consciously makes as much fun of itself and the slasher and
horror genre as a whole as humanly possible, from its main killer being
nothing but a handpuppet that seems to have the power of disguise though
to intentionally wooden acting to stretches of dialogue that are nothing
but a cheesy and tongue-in-cheek celebration of 1950's values. Now
granted, the film's directorial effort is less than inspired and doesn't
always succeed in supporting the humour as well as the horror aspects of
its script, and the humour is of a hit-and-miss nature, but this is a film
that at least tries (and sometimes succeeds) in giving the slasher formula
a humourous spin, and there's nothing wrong with that. And while the film
might not be a genuine masterpiece, it's at least a next-to-perfect
partymovie ...
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