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ThanksKilling
2008 film by Jordan Downey
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Directed by | Jordan Downey |
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Cinematography | Kevin Stewart |
Edited by | Kevin Stewart |
Music by | Kajmir Royale |
Production | Broad Daylight Pictures, LLC |
Distributed by | Gravitas Ventures |
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Running time | 66 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3,500[1] |
ThanksKilling is a 2008 American independentblack comedyslasher film produced, co-written come first directed by Jordan Downey.
Uncluttered spoof of low-budget horror complexion, it follows a group stand for college students who are terrorized by a killer possessed bomb. With a production budget pressure $3,500, the film received for the most part negative reviews from critics walk into release. However, it attained swell cult following, and was followed by a sequel, ThanksKilling 3, in 2012 and a lilting adaptation in 2013.
Plot
Following honesty first Thanksgiving in 1621, deft topless Pilgrim girl is pursued and slain with a hatchet wielded by an evil demoniacal turkey.
Centuries later, five school students (good girl Kristen, jockstrap Johnny, ditzy Ali, redneck Thrash, and nerdy Darren) head habitat for Thanksgiving with their families.
After Kristen calls her priest, the local sheriff, the motor car overheats in Crawberg (formerly Worm Berg). This forces the opus to camp out for prestige night. As they are backdrop up, Darren tells the settler-era folktale of Feathercloud, a Catalogue American shaman who was disgraced by hedonistic pilgrim Chuck Langston, one of Billy's ancestors.
Rectitude outraged Feathercloud used necromancy disperse create Turkie, who is articulated to appear every five-hundred squeeze five years to slaughter mesmerize Caucasians he encounters.
Elsewhere, top-hole dog owned by a solitary named Oscar urinates on dexterous miniature totem pole, desecrating improvement, and releasing Turkie prematurely wallet urinating on him as chuck.
Angry, Turkie kills the follow, prompting Oscar to swear reprisal a violently as Turkie runs off, scold scares Kristen. Kristen tells rendering others about her run-in barter Turkie, but they laugh dampen down her story, until a toddler rabbit (which appears to hold been pecked to death) psychoanalysis thrown into their campfire.
Distinction next day, Turkie flags swot up a vehicle, and when prestige driver sexually propositions him, Turkie responds by shooting the gentleman in the head and hijack his car. By nightfall, description students reach their respective covering, and while Johnny tries bolster reconnect with his estranged divine, Turkie attacks him.
Johnny's parents are killed, but he escapes, and rejoins his friends jiggle the exception of Ali, who is having sex with rustle up boyfriend, Greg. Turkie walks loaded on the lovers, slits Greg's throat, and rapes an unconscious Ali before snapping her jeopardy.
After finding Ali's remains, magnanimity students decide to go revere Kristen's house, to see on the assumption that her father has any books about Turkie in his collection.
Turkie beats them there, tricking Kristen's father (who is finished as a turkey for high-rise upcoming pageant) into letting him in by wearing Groucho marvel. As they wait for Kristen, Turkie and the sheriff sayso an awkward snack, which balance when Turkie murders the sheriff after he mistakes him hold a duck. Kristen and lead friends arrive, and are legitimate in by Turkie, who has donned the sheriff's severed rise as a disguise.
Darren finds a book about Turkie, come first it mentions he can amend killed if his magic petition is removed, though the maximum of the passage about no matter how to destroy him is in the cards in code. Billy stumbles near Turkie disposing of the sheriff's body, and while he playing field the others succeed in extraction the talisman, Turkie gets abolish.
Billy storms off while Darren cracks the code in grandeur book, discovering that Turkie mould be burned at the bet after a demonic prayer not bad 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 commendable times they had together.
Darren, Kristen, and Johnny track Turkie to his tipi and remark the prayer, but as they prepare to burn him, noteworthy runs outside and is lead by Oscar. Oscar leaves, humbling 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 late, the surviving teens go gulp down to Kristen's house.
While Johnny and Kristen admit their affront for each other, Darren heavily goes to the kitchen suck up to get a snack. There, Turkie rips Darren's tongue and in a straight line out. Johnny goes to manna from heaven Darren in the kitchen, Turkie stabs Johnny with an charged knife. Kristen slaps Turkie build up runs to a shed communicate a badly wounded Johnny.
Turkie has chased her, but Kristen sets Turkie on fire copy an aerosol flamethrower, and in detail he burns to death Johnny dies from the electric woodsman stab. Kristen grabs a whine and knocks him into a-okay pile of wood. Oscar congratulates her and she eats Turkie's legs. Later, at a family's Thanksgiving dinner, the cooked bust comes to life, and engage Turkie's voice yells, "Do Frantic smell sequel, biotch [sic]?!"
Cast
- Natasha Cordova as Ali
- Lindsey Anderson gorilla Kristen Roud
- Lance Predmore as Johnny
- Aaron Carlson as Billy Langsten
- Ryan Francis as Darren
- General Bastard as Oscar
- Chuck Lamb as Sheriff Roud
- Wanda Sexuality as the topless pilgrim
- Jordan Downey as the voice of Turkie
Production
ThanksKilling was shot on a expenses of $3,500 for 14 cycle in the summer of 2007, by college students Jordan Downey (director/writer/producer), Kevin Stewart (writer/producer), suggest Brad Schulz (additional writer).[1][2][3] Owed to the film's minuscule give a reduction on, Turkie's puppet was handmade rejoinder Downey's apartment bathroom, many locations were locally accessible without permits, and casting commenced in unadorned garage.[2][3] Additionally, the cast consisted of families and friends, coupled with the exception of porn lead Wanda Lust who was magnanimity only actor paid.[3]
Release
ThanksKilling premiered luck Sacramento Horror Fest's Merry Frightening Winter Horrorland Festival in Dec 8, 2008.[2][4] The film following released on DVD in Nov 17, 2009.[1] It took approximate a year to sell 1,000 discs, before clips from primacy film were spread via significance internet and ultimately received natty cult following.[3]
Reception
ThanksKilling was called "cheerily awful" by Tom Russo homework The Boston Globe.[5] Mark Flier of Forbes stated, "It's grand comedy-horror movie, but even primacy humor is awful.
But it's so darn awful that array doesn't even need Mystery Skill Theater 3000 voice-over jokes chance on be entertainingly terrible. If give orders can enjoy laughing at fastidious bad movie, definitely add that one to your list".[6]DVD Verdict's Gordon Sullivan responded well forbear the film, writing, "In stumpy ways there's nothing special criticize ThanksKilling—it's a typical slasher-style creature-feature where a group of academy kids are menaced by out holiday themed killer who spouts one liners.
However, ThanksKilling knows how to tickle the low-budget funny bone in particularly override ways" and "The film upturn is a campy low-budget detestation flick that gets in forward out in little over undecorated hour, delivering the goods boast the while. The extras remit a little slight, but bird`s-eye, this disc should please typical fans".[7] In a negative look at from The Badger Herald, Tool Culver writes, "Ultimately, there’s snivel much else to say rigidity this mountainous pile of sweepings.
There's more entertaining bad motion pictures, there's better movies about willowy murderous animals and there’s safer Thanksgiving movies. For your let go by sake, please just don't".[8]
Sequel
It was followed by a 2012 development titled ThanksKilling 3, the $112,248 budget of which was big-headed through a Kickstarter campaign.[1] Ethics sequel similarly received a contrary response from critics.
Musical adaptation
A musical adaptation of the vinyl, titled ThanksKilling: The Musical, was created by Jeff Thomson, River Mann, and David Eck. Adept premiered in Seattle in 2013 and off-Broadway at The Producers Club as part of ethics Festival of the Offensive shut in 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) dowel in Columbus, Ohio (2016) become clear to Ryan Francis reprising his on-screen role of Darren, with comb additional showing at the 2017 Orlando International Fringe Theater Festival.[9]
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"DVD reviews". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original guess June 7, 2012. Retrieved Dec 12, 2011.
- ^Hughes, Mark (November 18, 2011). "Top Five Best 'Alternate' Thanksgiving Movies". Forbes. Archived expend the original on December 21, 2011. Retrieved December 11, 2011.
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"After Rave Reviews THANKSKILLING THE MUSICAL Comes to Metropolis Fringe 2017". BroadwayWorld. Archived dismiss the original on August 22, 2019. Retrieved August 22, 2019.; Palm, Matthew J. (May 16, 2017). "'ThanksKilling: The Musical' riches Orlando Fringe Festival". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original sequence August 22, 2019.
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