ThanksKilling (2009)
Thankskilling is an American movie that came out in 2009 in the language of English.
How I watched: Tubi
For the short of it: A group of friends come across a blood thirsty yet vulgar Turkey.
The long of it:
Happy Thanksgiving!!! I literally don't think anyone even visits my blog anymore but WHO CARES. I'll blog to my heart's content.
I thought I ought to start making posts on holiday themed horror movies. This post is a little belated but whatever, trying to at least post once a month bare minimum until I can steadily go back to posting regularly again.
ThanksKilling is a movie I've seen quite a bit amount of times over the years but just never got around to giving it a watch. I don't know what exactly compelled me but this month is when I finally took the plunge. Boy, oh boy. what a trip this is.
First off, this movie opens with titties. 17th century pilgrim knockers is literally the first thing your eyes see when this movie opens up. I am dying. Accompanied is a sentient talking turkey with the opening line "Nice tits, bitch!" What a way to kick things off.
That's definitely one way to reel viewers in.
Even if you went into this movie blind like I did, it is 100% obvious that this movie is intentionally bad. As in, like everything. Once you see the next scene where we meet the main characters, you'll totally see why.
Holy hell don't even get me started. But I'll start anyway. The immediate introduction to the 5 characters and they are all dead ass movie cliches. We got the air head bimbo, the alpha male who never be scurrd, the heavyweight comic relief sidekick, the nerdy guy and of course it would not be complete without the level headed down to earth chill-ish chick who is obviously going to be the only survivor at the end of the movie.
The basic plot is when these 5 crazy kids carpool together for Thanksgiving break and during their road trip, they come across a killer Turkey that got cursed by a Pilgrim to take revenge on white people every 505 years.
Hilarity ensues.
ThanksKilling is a motherfucking trip. That being said, I love how much they make the most out of a blatant low budget film. The overacting is also intentional but I can see how even this may not appeal to everyone but I actually enjoyed it. It was literally parodying every movie trope they possibly could fit in this nearly 70 minute film.
Music isn't exactly prevalent in this movie but they did managed to squeeze in 2 songs: Krynos "Killswitch" a hard rock band from Ohio. According to their Facebook, they were a short lived band. Sad face. The 2nd song featured is the oldie but goodie: Billy Murray "In My Merry Oldsmobile".
Aside from the character typecasts, there's also numerous running jokes and puns sprinkled throughout this movie. At the same time, there are some rather unnecessary scenes in here such as the shit in the coffee pot and the "gas, grass or ass". Ew. OMFG I wish I could erase the "You just got stuffed" scene out of head. Pretty disgustangggg.
I do have my gripes about this movie but I say this with love my dudes. During the scene where Daron, the nerd, was telling that campfire story with the origin with the killer Turkey, there was some annoying soundmixing issues. Usually with scenes like this, there is a proper voiceover but they just combined the audio from the campfire scene to layover the animation scene. I suppose not a bad choice but the background music/sound effects tended to really drown out Daron's storytelling. It just wasn't good soundmixing. I had to really strain to hear what was being said. Should have put on closed captioning. So yeah that is something to think about.
Throughout this movie though it does start to grind my gears a little for being a bit too extra on the overacting but ya know, that's likely just me being burned out too easily so maybe avoid this part lol.
Of course this movie can't be complete without a montage of the remaining peeps trying to find a way to kill this murderous Turkey. That was pretty lolz.
Holy shit, I didn't even get to the part about the TURKEY! The turkey totally carried this movie for sure. It is literally a puppet but has a raunchy ass sense of humor sprinkled with a pun or two. Seriously, who can not love such a peckling smart ass homicidal poultry pecker with a crude slight against white people.
All in all, this movie is nothing special. Good for a laugh with easy going friends who don't take shit seriously.
It really is all in good fun, after all.
Nearly forgot to mention that there is a follow up to this movie called ThanksKilling 3. Yes, 3. Either take it upon yourself to look it up yourself or wait until next year for me to cover it. Not looking forward to it though. Watch or don't watch but I'm pretty confident I've given you enough viable info to let you decide to proceed to dabble in this fuckery.
If you made it all the way to the end of this post...WHY? Needless to say, I also decided to create a new tag for these posts under Holiday Themed.
With that being said, what is my verdict?
Amusing
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