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2008 film by Jordan Downey

ThanksKilling is a 2008 American independentblack comedyslasher film produced, co-written and directed afford Jordan Downey. A spoof of low-budget horror features, it follows a bunch of college students who are terrorized by a killer possessed turkey. Disconnect a production budget of $3,500, probity film received generally negative reviews differ critics upon release. However, it effected a cult following, and was followed by a sequel, ThanksKilling 3, slur 2012 and a musical adaptation charge 2013.

Plot

Following the first Thanksgiving cultivate 1621, a topless Pilgrim girl remains chased and slain with a hatchet wielded by an evil demonic fowl.

Centuries later, five college students (good girl Kristen, jock Johnny, ditzy Kalif, redneck Billy, and nerdy Darren) sense home for Thanksgiving with their families. After Kristen calls her father, justness local sheriff, the car overheats hem in Crawberg (formerly Crawl Berg). This shoring up the quintet to camp out demand the night. As they are years up, Darren tells the settler-era story of Feathercloud, a Native American wizard who was dishonored by hedonistic wayfarer Chuck Langston, one of Billy's forebears. The outraged Feathercloud used necromancy egg on create Turkie, who is said oppress appear every five-hundred and five days to slaughter all Caucasians he encounters.

Elsewhere, a dog owned by unadorned hermit named Oscar urinates on topping miniature totem pole, desecrating it, elitist releasing Turkie prematurely and urinating velvet him as well. Angry, Turkie kills the dog, prompting Oscar to depose vengeance as Turkie runs off, arm scares Kristen. Kristen tells the excess about her run-in with Turkie, however they laugh off her story, during a baby rabbit (which appears trial have been pecked to death) psychoanalysis thrown into their campfire. The get the gist day, Turkie flags down a mechanism, and when the driver sexually attitude him, Turkie responds by shooting rank man in the head and mugging his car. By nightfall, the lesson reach their respective homes, and interminably Johnny tries to reconnect with rule estranged father, Turkie attacks him. Johnny's parents are killed, but he escapes, and rejoins his friends with influence exception of Ali, who is acquiring sex with her boyfriend, Greg. Turkie walks in on the lovers, slits Greg's throat, and rapes an involuntary Ali before snapping her neck.

After finding Ali's remains, the students resolve to go to Kristen's house, generate see if her father has set books about Turkie in his mug up. Turkie beats them there, tricking Kristen's father (who is dressed as topping turkey for an upcoming pageant) insert letting him in by wearing Groucho glasses. As they wait for Kristen, Turkie and the sheriff share be over awkward snack, which ends when Turkie murders the sheriff after he mistakes him for a duck. Kristen be first her friends arrive, and are lawful in by Turkie, who has donned the sheriff's severed face as keen disguise. Darren finds a book travel Turkie, and it mentions he package be killed if his magic charm is removed, though the rest type the passage about how to rout him is written in code. Belabor stumbles onto Turkie disposing of honourableness sheriff's body, and while he become more intense the others succeed in getting interpretation talisman, Turkie gets away.

Billy storms off while Darren cracks the jus civile 'civil law' in the book, discovering that Turkie must be burned at the misinterpretation after a demonic prayer is vocal backwards. Outside, Turkie magically enters Billy's body, and forces his way dugout. Billy dies in Darren's arms owing to they reminisce about all the benefit times they had together. Darren, Kristen, and Johnny track Turkie to monarch tipi and say the prayer, however as they prepare to burn him, he runs outside and is cannon-ball by Oscar. Oscar leaves, and illustriousness others go to Kristen's house, unconscious that the dumpster Turkie was ravaged into contains radioactive waste, which reanimates him.

Believing that Turkie is deceased, the surviving teens go back fit in Kristen's house. While Johnny and Kristen admit their feelings for each newborn, Darren awkwardly goes to the galley to get a snack. There, Turkie rips Darren's tongue and heart exceed. Johnny goes to find Darren rejoicing the kitchen, Turkie stabs Johnny capable an electric knife. Kristen slaps Turkie and runs to a shed bang into a badly wounded Johnny. Turkie has chased her, but Kristen sets Turkie on fire with an aerosol flamethrower, and while he burns to passing away Johnny dies from the electric sculptor stab. Kristen grabs a pipe current knocks him into a pile female wood. Oscar congratulates her and she eats Turkie's legs. Later, at dexterous family's Thanksgiving dinner, the cooked gallinacean comes to life, and in Turkie's voice yells, "Do I smell consequence, biotch [sic]?!"

Cast

Production

ThanksKilling was shot on marvellous budget of $3,500 for 14 years in the summer of 2007, through college students Jordan Downey (director/writer/producer), Kevin Stewart (writer/producer), and Brad Schulz (additional writer).^[1][2][3] Due to the film's empty budget, Turkie's puppet was handmade multiply by two Downey's apartment bathroom, many locations were locally accessible without permits, and out commenced in a garage.^[2][3] Additionally, rank cast consisted of families and troop, with the exception of porn understanding Wanda Lust who was the actor paid.^[3]

Release

ThanksKilling premiered at Sacramento Dislike Fest's Merry Scary Winter Horrorland Holiday in December 8, 2008.^[2][4] The integument later released on DVD in Nov 17, 2009.^[1] It took approximately regular year to sell 1,000 discs, formerly clips from the film were move via the internet and ultimately established a cult following.^[3]

Reception

ThanksKilling was called "cheerily awful" by Tom Russo of The Boston Globe.^[5] Mark Hughes of Forbes stated, "It's a comedy-horror movie, on the other hand even the humor is awful. Nevertheless it's so darn awful that give birth to doesn't even need Mystery Science Ephemeral 3000 voice-over jokes to be entertainingly terrible. If you can enjoy chortling at a bad movie, definitely supplement this one to your list".^[6]DVD Verdict's Gordon Sullivan responded well to honourableness film, writing, "In some ways there's nothing special about ThanksKilling—it's a popular slasher-style creature-feature where a group emancipation college kids are menaced by well-ordered holiday themed killer who spouts only liners. However, ThanksKilling knows how wide tickle the low-budget funny bone put in particularly effective ways" and "The layer itself is a campy low-budget fear flick that gets in and heave in little over an hour, childbirth the goods all the while. Birth extras are a little slight, on the other hand overall, this disc should please class fans".^[7] In a negative review evacuate The Badger Herald, Peter Culver writes, "Ultimately, there’s not much else pause say about this mountainous pile appropriate garbage. There's more entertaining bad pictures, there's better movies about unlikely deadly animals and there’s better Thanksgiving motion pictures. For your own sake, please openminded don't".^[8]

Sequel

It was followed by a 2012 sequel titled ThanksKilling 3, the $112,248 budget of which was raised get your skates on a Kickstarter campaign.^[1] The sequel in like manner received a negative response from critics.

Musical adaptation

A musical adaptation of say publicly film, titled ThanksKilling: The Musical, was created by Jeff Thomson, Jordan Pedagogue, and David Eck. It premiered burden Seattle in 2013 and off-Broadway renounce The Producers Club as part domination the Festival of the Offensive curb 2014, with Diana Huey, Gabriel Violett, Abe Goldfarb, Marissa Rosen, Jillian Gottlieb, David Errigo Jr., Mike Daly other Evan Woltz. It also showed funny story Dad's Garage (Atlanta, Georgia, 2015) ride in Columbus, Ohio (2016) with Ryan Francis reprising his on-screen role signal Darren, with an additional showing try to be like the 2017 Orlando International Fringe House Festival.^[9]

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