A group of college kids decide to camp out in the woods during Thanksgiving break. Soon they are hunted by a murderous, talking turkey, who was cursed by an angry indian hundreds of years ago.
If you think the plot sounds fucking stupid. Then.... Well.. Then, you're right. You wonder what kind of drugs they took before they came up with this idea. And although the plot of the movie lacks any kind of evidence that this will be a good movie, it does sound promising for the ''grab a beer and watch a shitty movie'' category.
ThanksKilling was made on a shoestring budget of just 3,500 dollar and was shot in 11 days, basically by a group of amateurs. And that shows. The acting is absolutely horrendous, which doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing in a movie like this. It IS though when the actors lack any kind of comedy talent to make up for it, which is the case in ThanksKilling. Therefore the acting got on my nerves very quickly.
Luckily the turkey brought a smile to my face multiple times. The idea of a murderous turkey itself is bizarre, but it only gets more bizarre when you actually see the turkey murder people in live action while cursing like a sailor. After every kill he manages to shout out some silly, but non the less very funny, one-liners. Think of things like: You're stuffed! after just finishing raping a girl.
Even though the turkey itself is quite brilliant the movie somehow manages to be boring at times, which is all the more strange for a movie that only lasts 67 minutes including ending credits. The actors are fully at fault for the boring parts, as they fail to create any kind of funnyness with their characters. The only one who did manage to do so was the redneck who hunts for the turkey in order to get revenge for his killed dog. But of course he gets way too little screen time.
So ThanksKilling turned out to be a huge disappointment. It had all the ingredients to become a cult-classic, but instead it turned out to be a boring mess. The turkey's one-liners save this movie from being a complete disaster.
Fun Facts: (Source:IMDB)
The central tagline, "Gobble, Gobble, Motherf***er!" came before their was even a plot for ThanksKilling.
Upon its initial release on the Playstation store, ThanksKilling was a top download, beating out many studio films.
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