ThanksKilling (2008) poster
2008 · comedy · horror · slasher · parody

ThanksKilling

Directed by Jordan Downey1h 7m2008
ElsewhereIMDb4.26k
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • surreal
  • cold
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, measured comedy / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A homicidal turkey axes off college kids during Thanksgiving break.

Our read · ThanksKilling (2008) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal comedy · horror · slasher entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want absurdly bad holiday slasher comedy with a killer turkey.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditysexual violencegraphic violencegoreanimal harm

Skip it tonightSkip if puppet sex, gore, or offensive humor will offend or bore you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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