Addison RaeandPatrick Dempseyare taking on a holiday-themed villain in their new horror movie.
On Thursday, TriStar Pictures released a trailer for its upcoming movieThanksgiving, the long-awaited slasher film from filmmaker and actorEli Roth. The film is based on afaux trailerRoth, 51, created that ran in theaters during the 2007Robert Rodriguez-Quentin Tarantinodouble featureGrindhouse.
The movie’s trailer — the real one — features a man speaking about the importance of Thanksgiving in American culture as characters are shown in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the holiday began in the 17th century. Dempsey, 57, is shown wearing a sheriff’s uniform, just before a serial killer dressed as a pilgrim utilizes a restaurant’s freezer room to commit a gruesome murder.
The killer is then shown committing several more murders, while Rae, 22, briefly appears during a scene in which she is bound to a chair and gagged.
Poster for the movie ‘Thanksgiving’.Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment
“After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday,” reads an official synopsis for the movie.
The original trailer that Roth created forGrindhouse— a double feature that consists of the Rodriguez-directed moviePlanet Terrorand Tarantino’sDeath Proof— featured a similar serial killer dressed as a pilgrim.
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‘Thanksgiving’ movie trailer.Sony Pictures Entertainment
Shortly afterGrindhousewas released, Roth toldRolling Stonethat making the fake trailer was “the most fun I’ve ever had shooting anything” as he explained the premise for the then-fake movie.
“My friend Jeff, who plays the killer pilgrim — we grew up in Massachusetts, we were huge slasher movie fans and every November we were waiting for the Thanksgiving slasher movie,” he said at the time. “We had the whole movie worked out: A kid who’s in love with a turkey and then his father killed it and then he killed his family and went away to a mental institution and came back and took revenge on the town. I called Jeff and said, ‘Dude, guess what, we don’t have to make the movie, we can just shoot the best parts.’ "
Patrick Dempsey (right) in the trailer for ‘Thanksgiving’.Sony Pictures Entertainment
Roth confirmed toCinemaBlendback in 2010 that he intended to flesh out the trailer into a feature-length film. In 2016, he told fans in aReddit Ask Me Anything threadthat he wanted “to put some more work into it so the film lives up to the trailer.”
Thanksgivingwill release in theaters Nov. 17.
source: people.com
