20s Movie Review - Thanksgiving

Director: Eli Roth
Genre: Horror/ Thriller
Runtime: 106 minutes
Year: 2023
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Nell Verlaque, Jalen Thomas Books, Gabriel Davenport, Milo Manheim, Rick Hoffman, Gina Gershon

Description: After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the infamous holiday.

Review: “Grindhouse” consisted of two B-movies, but Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. It had a fake trailer for a movie called “Thanksgiving”, a slasher film with 1980s appeal made by Eli Roth. And now, the movie is real.

A department store decides to start their Black Friday as early as midnight and promises free products for the first hundred customers. The result is bloody mayhem. A year later, a group of survivors are tagged in a bizarre message on social media. One by one, they begin to die.

Director Eli Roth turns a fake trailer into a real movie. And I got exactly what I was hoping for. I love slasher films, they are fun. A bunch of awful people being brutally murdered and we are trying to find out who the killer is. That’s what this is. Roth doesn’t do anything groundbreaking. What Roth does do is making this film bloody as hell. And it’s not even his goriest film. Roth manages to pull off some real original kills. And it has some good humor as well.

Even though I did predict the eventual killer, “Thanksgiving” is an entertaining slasher. What you except from it, you get.

Rating: 3,5/ 5

10s Movie Review - Blockers

Director: Kay Cannon
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 102 minutes
Year: 2018
Starring: Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, Ramona Young, Gina Gershon, Gary Cole

Description: Three parents try to stop their daughters from losing their virginity on prom night.

Review: Blockers is short for cockblockers, an American term that people use when they want to stop someone from having sex. According to Wikipedia the term became popular due to the movie “Superbad”. And like in “Superbad”, teenagers made a pact to lose their virginity at the end of the school year. In “Blockers” it’s about three girls though and the ‘blockers’ are their parents who try to prevent their daughters to make a mistake.
Julie, Kayla and Sam are three best friends that are about to graduate. Julie decides she wants to use her virginity on prom night, to her boyfriend Austin. Kayla wants to join in and picks her lab partner as her date. Sam wants in, because she feels left out and she is secretly a lesbian. When Julie’s mom and Kayla and Sam’s fathers find out about their ‘sex pact’, they try to stop the girls.
The film has some really funny moments, but it also has some typical juvenile comedy like we are used to in films with this theme. John Cena is actually really funny, as the big sportsfanatic dad with an emotional side. And I also liked Ike Barinholtz. The three parents don’t have a lot of chemistry though.
“Blockers” is more fun then I expected.

Rating: 3/ 5