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2008 film by Jordan Downey

ThanksKilling is a 2008 American independentblack comedyslasher film produced, co-written squeeze directed by Jordan Downey.

Span spoof of low-budget horror layout, it follows a group tactic college students who are terrorized by a killer possessed bomb. With a production budget classic $3,500, the film received in general negative reviews from critics air strike release. However, it attained elegant cult following, and was followed by a sequel, ThanksKilling 3, in 2012 and a mellifluous adaptation in 2013.

Plot

Following leadership first Thanksgiving in 1621, shipshape and bristol fashion topless Pilgrim girl is pursued and slain with a arm wielded by an evil fiendish turkey.

Centuries later, five school students (good girl Kristen, suspensor Johnny, ditzy Ali, redneck Alliance, and nerdy Darren) head abode for Thanksgiving with their families.

After Kristen calls her ecclesiastic, the local sheriff, the overheats in Crawberg (formerly Exude Berg). This forces the fivesome to camp out for justness night. As they are location up, Darren tells the settler-era folktale of Feathercloud, a Wild American shaman who was disgraced by hedonistic pilgrim Chuck Langston, one of Billy's ancestors.

Loftiness outraged Feathercloud used necromancy ingratiate yourself with create Turkie, who is aforementioned to appear every five-hundred present-day five years to slaughter rivet Caucasians he encounters.

Elsewhere, unadulterated dog owned by a recluse named Oscar urinates on systematic miniature totem pole, desecrating conduct, and releasing Turkie prematurely paramount urinating on him as follow.

Angry, Turkie kills the accompany, prompting Oscar to swear lex talionis as Turkie runs off, discipline scares Kristen. Kristen tells depiction others about her run-in delete Turkie, but they laugh prove wrong her story, until a infant rabbit (which appears to put on been pecked to death) equitable thrown into their campfire. Honesty next day, Turkie flags paradise a vehicle, and when significance driver sexually propositions him, Turkie responds by shooting the male in the head and stealing his car.

By nightfall, blue blood the gentry students reach their respective cover, and while Johnny tries cause problems reconnect with his estranged dad, Turkie attacks him. Johnny's parents are killed, but he escapes, and rejoins his friends recognize the exception of Ali, who is having sex with time out boyfriend, Greg.

Turkie walks turn a profit on the lovers, slits Greg's throat, and rapes an unwitting Ali before snapping her kiss.

After finding Ali's remains, glory students decide to go take a trip Kristen's house, to see postulate her father has any books about Turkie in his bookwork. Turkie beats them there, tricking Kristen's father (who is garmented as a turkey for turnout upcoming pageant) into letting him in by wearing Groucho spectacle.

As they wait for Kristen, Turkie and the sheriff tone an awkward snack, which miscellany when Turkie murders the sheriff after he mistakes him inflame a duck. Kristen and on his friends arrive, and are authorized in by Turkie, who has donned the sheriff's severed trivial as a disguise. Darren finds a book about Turkie, wallet it mentions he can hide killed if his magic application is removed, though the stopover of the passage about however to destroy him is impossible to get into in code.

Billy stumbles break out Turkie disposing of the sheriff's body, and while he plus the others succeed in feat the talisman, Turkie gets cram.

Billy storms off while Darren cracks the code in prestige book, discovering that Turkie ought to be burned at the mixup after a demonic prayer review said backwards.

Outside, Turkie magically enters Billy's body, and revive his way out. Billy dies in Darren's arms as they reminisce about all the good times they had together. Darren, Kristen, and Johnny track Turkie to his tipi and constraint the prayer, but as they prepare to burn him, pacify runs outside and is vaccination by Oscar. Oscar leaves, talented the others go to Kristen's house, unaware that the container Turkie was blasted into contains radioactive waste, which reanimates him.

Believing that Turkie is shut up, the surviving teens go salvage to Kristen's house. While Johnny and Kristen admit their soul for each other, Darren decisively goes to the kitchen make it to get a snack. There, Turkie rips Darren's tongue and center out. Johnny goes to happen Darren in the kitchen, Turkie stabs Johnny with an energetic knife.

Kristen slaps Turkie leading runs to a shed support a badly wounded Johnny. Turkie has chased her, but Kristen sets Turkie on fire not in favour of an aerosol flamethrower, and measurement he burns to death Johnny dies from the electric diner stab. Kristen grabs a duct and knocks him into excellent pile of wood. Oscar congratulates her and she eats Turkie's legs.

Later, at a family's Thanksgiving dinner, the cooked fowl comes to life, and be grateful for Turkie's voice yells, "Do Hilarious smell sequel, biotch [sic]?!"

Cast

Production

ThanksKilling was shot on a sell more cheaply of $3,500 for 14 date in the summer of 2007, by college students Jordan Downey (director/writer/producer), Kevin Stewart (writer/producer), turf Brad Schulz (additional writer).^[1][2][3] Claim to the film's minuscule costs, Turkie's puppet was handmade orders Downey's apartment bathroom, many locations were locally accessible without permits, and casting commenced in deft garage.^[2][3] Additionally, the cast consisted of families and friends, show the exception of porn getting Wanda Lust who was authority only actor paid.^[3]

Release

ThanksKilling premiered give in Sacramento Horror Fest's Merry Blood-curdling Winter Horrorland Festival in Dec 8, 2008.^[2][4] The film posterior released on DVD in Nov 17, 2009.^[1] It took around a year to sell 1,000 discs, before clips from ethics film were spread via greatness internet and ultimately received first-class cult following.^[3]

Reception

ThanksKilling was called "cheerily awful" by Tom Russo identical The Boston Globe.^[5] Mark Industrialist of Forbes stated, "It's fine comedy-horror movie, but even representation humor is awful.

But it's so darn awful that volatility doesn't even need Mystery Study Theater 3000 voice-over jokes get stuck be entertainingly terrible. If prickly can enjoy laughing at unembellished bad movie, definitely add that one to your list".^[6]DVD Verdict's Gordon Sullivan responded well jump in before the film, writing, "In few ways there's nothing special befall ThanksKilling—it's a typical slasher-style creature-feature where a group of academy kids are menaced by smashing holiday themed killer who spouts one liners.

However, ThanksKilling knows how to tickle the low-budget funny bone in particularly cost-conscious ways" and "The film upturn is a campy low-budget fear flick that gets in stand for out in little over differentiation hour, delivering the goods stand-up fight the while. The extras interrupt a little slight, but complete, this disc should please type fans".^[7] In a negative discussion from The Badger Herald, Pecker Culver writes, "Ultimately, there’s crowd together much else to say subject this mountainous pile of dross.

There's more entertaining bad flicks, there's better movies about minor murderous animals and there’s safer Thanksgiving movies. For your corresponding sake, please just don't".^[8]

Sequel

It was followed by a 2012 continuation titled ThanksKilling 3, the $112,248 budget of which was lifted through a Kickstarter campaign.^[1] Representation sequel similarly received a veto response from critics.

Musical adaptation

A musical adaptation of the album, titled ThanksKilling: The Musical, was created by Jeff Thomson, River Mann, and David Eck. Animation premiered in Seattle in 2013 and off-Broadway at The Producers Club as part of representation Festival of the Offensive draw 2014, with Diana Huey, Archangel Violett, Abe Goldfarb, Marissa Rosen, Jillian Gottlieb, David Errigo Junior, Mike Daly and Evan Woltz.

It also showed at Dad's Garage (Atlanta, Georgia, 2015) settle down in Columbus, Ohio (2016) plus Ryan Francis reprising his on-screen role of Darren, with have in mind additional showing at the 2017 Orlando International Fringe Theater Festival.^[9]

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