Past year's:
THANKSGIVING
Watchable. It opens with a brilliant joke by Patrick Dempsey's (wonderful in this role) character Sheriff Newlon knocking on a door looking for a guy who turns out to be a stuffed turkey. Eli Roth's slasher is obviously brutal, unfortunately he tries to emulate his earlier movies so it's not just gore, it's also spew, guts, brains falling out, even baking people alive. At least this sickening violence is sprinkled with language humour, though it all gets lost in the Polish translation. There's social satire too. Some things don't make sense, e.g. putting contact lenses in in the afternoon and without washing hands i.e. in a bedroom. The police officer knows more than he logically should.But the film follows the rules of the genre, with a red herring and the identity of the killer revealed only in the finale. The end credits express gratitude to Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. The post-credit scene is just a cut-out. I hope at least the outcome of this movie will be good for turkeys.
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