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‘Thanksgiving’ – Nell Verlaque and Milo Manheim on Slasher Kills and Collaborating with Eli Roth

December 19, 2023 Meagan Navarro Eli Roth, Interviews, Milo Manheim, Nell Verlaque, Thanksgiving

A new holiday horror classic emerged this season with the arrival of Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving, now playing in theaters and on PVOD. In Thanksgiving, “After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.” Roth directed from a script he co-wrote with Jeff Rendell. For the slasher’s surprise […]

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‘Thanksgiving’ Arrives on PVOD Today; Celebrate With ‘Behind the Screams’ Featurette! [Exclusive]

December 19, 2023 Meagan Navarro Eli Roth, Exclusives, Movies, Thanksgiving

Based on his fake trailer from the Grindhouse Double Feature (2007), Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving served up a heaping helping of gory slasher fun in theaters ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Today, Roth’s holiday slasher carves its way onto PVOD! Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive “Behind the Screams” featurette to celebrate the surprise home release. Thanksgiving is now available in […]

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Slasher Renaissance? A Closer Look at the Sub-Genre That Never Went Away

December 7, 2023 Matt Donato Editorials, Eli Roth, featured, Movies, Slashers, Thanksgiving, topnews

This holiday season’s release of Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is cause for celebration amongst slasher fans. It’s been a hot minute since mainstream horror audiences have been able to watch a wide-release slasher that feels gruesomely throwback *and* is based on a wholly original concept. Thanksgiving is a contemporary reinterpretation of cheesy 80s midnighters about masked […]

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Eli Roth Reveals That He’d Like to Direct More ‘Hostel’ and ‘Cabin Fever’ Movies

December 6, 2023 John Squires Cabin Fever, Eli Roth, Hostel, Movies

Eli Roth made his return to rated “R” horror with the slasher movie Thanksgiving last month, and we learned last week that Roth will return to direct Thanksgiving 2 in 2025. This year’s holiday slasher is of course a feature length expansion of Roth’s popular faux trailer from Grindhouse (2007), and it seems it’s reignited […]

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All Will Be Carved: Eli Roth Returning to Direct ‘Thanksgiving 2’!

November 30, 2023 John Squires Eli Roth, Movies, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving 2

As Eli Roth’s slasher movie Thanksgiving crosses the $30 million mark at the box office, we’ve learned tonight that Thanksgiving 2 has officially been ordered up this week! Sony’s TriStar plans on releasing Thanksgiving 2 in theaters worldwide in 2025. Eli Roth and Jeff Rendell are back to write the screenplay for the upcoming sequel. […]

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Eli Roth’s ‘Thanksgiving’ Slashed into Another $10 Million Over the Long Holiday Weekend

November 27, 2023 John Squires Eli Roth, Movies, Thanksgiving

Eli Roth is back in the horror genre with the holiday-themed slasher movie Thanksgiving, which dropped just 31% in its second weekend at the box office here in the United States. TriStar Pictures and Spyglass Media Group’s Thanksgiving made $2.785 million on Friday, $2.785 million on Saturday and a projected $1.580 million on Sunday from […]

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Smart Grindhouse: How ‘Thanksgiving’ Reminds the World that Slashers Have Brains Too

November 22, 2023 Marcus Shorter Editorials, Eli Roth, Grindhouse, Movies, Thanksgiving

There’s something funny about Thanksgiving. And yes, that goes beyond the very intentional comedy that comes from watching copious amounts of blood spill from the human body in ways that defy nature and gravity. Eli Roth’s latest pulls a magic trick that genre stalwarts like George A. Romero, Tobe Hooper, or John Carpenter pulled on […]

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Eli Roth’s ‘Thanksgiving’ Slashes into $12 Million Worldwide Debut

November 20, 2023 John Squires Eli Roth, Movies, Thanksgiving

Sixteen years after the film’s trailer premiered as part of the Grindhouse theatrical experience, Eli Roth’s slasher movie Thanksgiving carved its way into theaters over the weekend. The rated “R” bloodbath was produced for just $15 million, a number that the film is likely to pass in the coming days. Here in the United States, […]

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Thanks for Giving Us Nightmares: Eli Roth’s 6 Nastiest Movie Moments

November 17, 2023 Mike Holtz Cabin Fever, Editorials, Eli Roth, Hostel, Movies, The Green Inferno

In honor of Thanksgiving now playing in theaters, I decided to take a look at the filmography of Eli Roth. After spending a few days watching films like Cabin Fever, Hostel and The Green Inferno, I cried in the shower for about twenty minutes and am vegan now! In no particular order, here are the most gnarly moments of […]

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‘Thanksgiving’ – Eli Roth Reveals How Covid Influenced His Killer’s Design and the Research Put Into the Script

November 16, 2023 Meagan Navarro Eli Roth, Interviews, Thanksgiving

A new holiday horror classic emerges with the arrival of Eli Roth‘s Thanksgiving in theaters on November 17. In Thanksgiving, “After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.” Bloody Disgusting spoke with Roth, who wrote the script with Jeff Rendell, about his gory slasher and […]

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Eli Roth’s ‘Thanksgiving’ – NECA Turns Slasher John Carver Into New Figures

November 16, 2023 Brad Miska Eli Roth, NECA, Thanksgiving, Toys

Already previewed at this past October’s Toy Fair in New York, NECA has just officially revealed action figures based on Eli Roth‘s slasher Thanksgiving (read our review), which opens in theaters tonight. NECA has opened pre-orders on three figures and two plush dolls, as well as a mask and shirt bundle, all of which are […]

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‘Grindhouse’ – Revisiting the Influential Box Office Failure With Via Vision’s New Blu-ray Release

November 15, 2023 Alex DiVincenzo Death Proof, Eli Roth, Grindhouse, Home Video, Planet Terror, Quentin Tarantino, Reviews, Robert Rodriguez, Thanksgiving

Grindhouse is one of the most influential box office failures of the 21st century. Despite grossing a paltry $25.4 million at the box office on a budget of around $60 million, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 love letter to exploitation cinema has managed to spawn four spin-off movies — Machete, Machete Kills, Hobo with […]

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‘Thanksgiving’ Review – New Holiday Slasher Carves Up a Gory Feast for Horror Fans

November 15, 2023 Meagan Navarro Eli Roth, featured, Movies, Reviews, Thanksgiving, topnews

After 16 years, Eli Roth finally expands his faux Grindhouse trailer into feature form in Thanksgiving. Instead of building his quintessential slasher around the grainy Grindhouse anesthetic, however, he brings the classic-style slasher into the modern world. It results in a holiday horror effort that captures the lean, mean, and gory spirit of early aughts horror. Borrowing a page from the […]

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5 New Horror Movies Releasing This Week Including Eli Roth’s ‘Thanksgiving’!

November 14, 2023 John Squires Eli Roth, featured, Monsternado, Movies, Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, Satanic Hispanics, Screambox, Thanksgiving, topnews, Your Lucky Day

An event 16 years in the making, Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving finally becomes a real movie this week, but it’s not the only new horror movie keeping us company on the road to Thanksgiving. Here’s all the new horror releasing November 14 – November 19, 2023! For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow […]

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‘Thanksgiving’ – Eli Roth on the Importance of Original Horror and Evolving His ‘Grindhouse’ Trailer [Interview]

November 13, 2023 Meagan Navarro Eli Roth, Interviews, Thanksgiving

Based on his fake trailer from the Grindhouse Double Feature (2007), Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is finally a full-feature movie, and it’s arriving in theaters this Friday, November 17. In Thanksgiving, “After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.” Bloody Disgusting spoke with Roth, who wrote the script […]

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