Friday Night Frights – 06/12/24

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Wow, it’s been a minute. And by  minute I mean over seven years since I last posted a Friday Night Frights. I looked back at the previous posts and I’m shocked at the fact I only did three – I always thought I had been doing it for a while before ending up not keeping up with it. That’s not the only fail, though. This post was meant to be for last week to tie in with Thanksgiving weekend considering the title and premise of the fucking movie. But life gets in the way and finding time to sit down, focus and write is hard. Especially for an AuDHDer.

I had been meaning to watch this movie since I first heard about it before release and then got sidetracked and forgot about it until I saw a clip which reminded me again. Thing is, the clip I saw was not from this but from Thankskilling. A VERY different movie which I am yet to watch, but if you know… You know. Anyway, I digress as ever.

Thanksgiving is directed by Eli Roth and written by Jeff Rendell based on a fictitious trailer that featured in Grindhouse.

Set in Plymouth, Massachusetts shit soon hits the fan as an impatient mob are set to swarm on their local superstore, RightMart. There are a lot of blink and you miss it moments, subtle details and not so subtle details. It’s quite difficult to mention a lot of things about this movie without potentially spoiling it. What I can say is I had sussed the killer out within the first fifteen minutes but I still enjoyed the ride and even started to doubt myself but I stuck with my gut. My partner is nothing like me. Her brain functions on a level I cannot fathom – she does not naturally wonder the who/what/where/why whereas my brain is constantly picking at these questions and making predictions. Until meeting her, I never knew people like this existed. It’s akin to people who don’t have an inner monologue and who read things and don’t ‘hear’ different voices – for example, when I read Batman comics I read Batman/Bruce Wayne’s dialogue in the voice of Kevin Conroy and Joker’s in the voice of Mark Hamill.

I really enjoyed the flick and the standard slasher tropes that we know and love (or is it love to hate?). Again, I can’t say too much without ruining things but there is a scene where the killer is cooking and I can’t help but feel like its a nod to V cooking Evey breakfast in V For Vendetta.

What I can tell you is that the violence and kill sequences are deliciously graphic and visceral – as always, I am yet to find a movie that gives me a jump scare but I counted no less than five jumps out of my partner as we watched it together. And there is a cute kitty. I’m all about the kitties.

 

I’m currently on a hyper-focus of watching Svengoolie and The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs (as well as some MonsterVision that I’ve been able to access thanks to the Patreon) so a lot of what I’m watching will probably feature on these posts for the foreseeable…

See you next week.

Also, feel free to share any movie suggestions in the comments or on my socials and I’ll check them out!