Horror Weekly News: Eli Roth's Thanksgiving gets a Teaser. Blumhouse introduces a new Villain in Totally Killer.

 

Sixteen years ago, horror fans were treated to a mock trailer of a movie called THANKSGIVING. The trailer featured in a movie that was presented as a double feature called GRINDHOUSE.

 

The trailer for THANKSGIVING in Grindhouse showed a man in a Pilgrim’s costume mindlessly killing everyone in sight. Eli Roth, the director of the trailer, also makes a special appearance and ends up being decapitated by the killer. 

The movie THANKSGIVING is finally being turned into a full length movie. 

Watch the teaser carefully and you may even spot some similar scenes that were in the mock trailer. 

In the teaser that was released recently, we see a happy little town celebrating Thanksgiving. People are happily going about their way and enjoying the parade. 

That is when the Pilgrim comes in and starts pushing peoples faces into the fryer and then into the freezer. He snaps people’s necks and uses his axe viciously. 

In the mock trailer, there was a scene where a cheerleader jumps on a trampoline only to be impaled on a knife sticking out while she performs a split. Ouch! 

That infamous scene features in the teaser for THANKSGIVING. 

The movie stars Patrick Dempsey as the sheriff, Rick Hoffman, and Gina Gershon. 

Written by Jeff Rendell and Eli Roth, the latter who is also the director, the movie will release on November 17th. 

Expect no leftovers. 

 

In other news….

It’s time to head back to the eighties!

To stop a killer, of course. 

In the new slasher movie TOTTALY KILLER, there’s a new killer in town called the Sweet Sixteen Killer. Going by the name, let’s assume the killer targets girls who have just turned sixteen. 

In the trailer, we get to see a seventeen year old Jamie Hughes trying to convince two police officers about a murder that is going to take place that night. She references the BACK TO THE FUTURE movies and immediately gets laughed at. 

We then see Jamie’s mother, Pam Hughes, getting ready for Halloween but actively discouraging her daughter from going out. But does Jamie listen? Of course not. 

References are made to a murder that took place thirty-five years ago in which Pam had lost her friends to the serial killer. Jamie shrugs off the warning, claiming that it is not 1987 any more and she is going to be fine. 

In the next instant, the killer not only follows Jamie, but also attacks her. After some chasing around, the Jamie ends up at the photo booth and when the killer enters, the poor photo booth is stabbed resulting in Jamie ending up in the past. 

She meets the younger version of her mother who used to be a cheerleader. Jamie is shocked to find that her loving mother was actually really mean in her younger days. 

Jamie manages to infiltrate the school and even manage to get on the team and in the friends circle. 

Her new friends are more into camping in the dark and lonely woods. The killer is seen wearing the same mask and attacking everyone on sight. 

Just how is Jamie going to stop him?

Considering that only Pam was spared and the killer has been attacking her daughter, it is safe to assume that the killer is connected to Pam’s past. 

Directed by Nahnatchka Khan, Totally Killer is written by David Matalon, Sasha Perl-Raver, and Jen D’Angelo. 

Totally Killer stars Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, and Julie Bowen. 

Totally Killer is the latest offering from Blumhouse and will be released on Amazon Prime Video on 6th October 2023.