'Thanksgiving' trivia and fun facts
The Thanksgiving Killer
'Thanksgiving' is based on the killer of the fake trailer from 'Grindhouse' (2007). Eli Roth directed the trailer of a fake movie which was shown between two movies in the double feature that projected: 'Planet Terror' and 'Death Proof'.
Location
The fake trailer for Grindhouse was filmed in Prague in 2006. Meanwhile, this movie has been filmed in Massachusetts.
Horror collaborations
This is Eli Roth and Rick Hoffman's first collaboration since 'Hostel' in year 2005.
Director's words
In an interview of Eli Roth with Total Film, the director said that this movie is not supposed to be the movie that the Grindhouse trailer presented: "We said, 'Let's pretend Thanksgiving was a movie from 1980 that was so offensive that every print was destroyed. All the scripts were burned. The director disappeared. The crew members changed their names. One person saved the trailer and uploaded it to the darkest corners of 4chan, and now it's made it out. So this is a 2023 reboot.' Once we said that, it freed us up."