A new red band trailer for Thanksgiving, Eli Roth’s upcoming holiday slasher, has been released.
Based on a mock trailer Roth created for 2007’s Grindhouse, Thanksgiving is a new holiday-themed slasher following a serial killer named John Carver.
Check out the trailer for Thanksgiving below (watch more trailers):
What is Thanksgiving about?
“After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday,” the official synopsis reads.
Thanksgiving stars Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, Gina Gershon, Tim Dillon, Gabriel Davenport, Tomaso Sanelli, and Jenna Warren. The story comes from Roth and Jeff Rendell, with Rendell writing the screenplay. Roth and Rendell are also producing the film alongside Roger Birnbaum.
Roth is known for directing 2002’s Cabin Fever, 2005’s Hostel, 2007’s Hostel: Part II, 2013’s The Green Inferno, 2015’s Knock Knock, and 2018’s The House with a Clock in Its Walls. He and James Frey also recently created Fright Krewe, a DreamWorks Animation animated horror series now streaming on Hulu and Peacock.
In a recent interview with ComingSoon, Roth said he and Rendell were inspired by other holiday slashers — Halloween, Silent Night, Deadly Night, My Bloody Valentine, etc. — to create a horror film specifically set around Thanksgiving.
“It seemed so obvious to us, so from the time we were 12 or 13 years old, we always wanted to do it, because Thanksgiving is obviously a huge deal in Massachusetts with the pilgrims. You went to Plymouth Plantation/Plimoth Patuxet in Sturbridge Village and saw all these pilgrim recreation villages. So we really wanted to do a modern take and create a new mythology and a new slasher film. The way I think of it is that if you love Thanksgiving, you’re going to want your kids to be into horror films.”
Thanksgiving releases in United States theaters on November 17, 2023.
