Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving has a trailer, but where is Edgar Wright’s Don’t?
Roth becomes the third director to adapt a Grindhouse trailer into a feature, but despite the tagline, there are still some left overs
Recalling the most annoying opinion anyone can have about moviegoing, the most best part of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse double feature was the trailers. That’s not to take anything away from Deathproof, which remains Tarantino’s most underrated effort, but the trailers lingered with viewers longer than the words Planet Terror. The ideas were so rich in that brief, connective montage that it inspired two feature-length movies: Robert Rodriguez’s Machete in 2010 and Jason Eisener’s Hobo With A Shotgun in 2011. More than a decade later, we’re getting a third.
Eli Roth’s long-threatened holiday slasher, Thanksgiving, the one that features a conspicuously placed hunting knife on a trampoline where a cheerleader is practicing splits, now has a trailer. And, yes, that cheerleader bit is teased. Set a year after a Black Friday riot that seemingly left several dead, a murderous pilgrim is “out for revenge and turning it into a sick holiday game.”
