Thanksgiving Skinner

Thanksgiving is a day for families, gathering together to reflect on the past year's blessings and ... well, mostly it's an excuse to gorge yourself on roast turkey, canned cranberry sauce and your grandma's yams with those little baby marshmallows in them. Oh yeah, and pie, lots of pie. Makes you want to undo the top button of your pants just thinking about it, doesn't it?

With all that to work with, there's a surprising lack of Thanksgiving movies out there (at least compared to Christmas movies), so I'll spare you discussions on Home for the Holidays or Pieces of April (shiver) and instead offer you a video morsel from this year's Grindhouse extravaganza: Eli Roth's faux trailer for the Thanksgiving-themed splatter flick titled, well, Thanksgiving.

Borrowing heavily from Carpenter's Halloween (with a little of Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre thrown in for good measure), this one is not for the squeamish or the recently gorged. Gratuitous bloodletting, beheadings and female nudity aplenty is on view, so I wouldn't want you to have to clean Aunt Mimi's corn fritters out of your keyboard.

Considering how well this little three-minute mini-masterpiece of gore was received (and how poorly his Hostel Part II was), I wouldn't be surprised if Roth didn't turn it into an actual feature. Heck, it even has its own merchandise already, including a Grindhouse Thanksgiving T-Shirt, just the kind of garment you could wear if you don't want to be invited back next year.

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