[Tubi Horror Mini Review] – Thankskilling (2008) – Utter Trash but also Hilarious

Genre – Horror
Director – Jordan Downey
Writers – Jordan Downey · Brad Schulz · Kevin Stewart
Cast – Natasha Cordova, Lindsey Anderson, Lance Predmore, Aaron Ringhiser-Carlson, Ryan E. Francis, General Bastard, Wanda Lust, Jordan Downey
Runtime – 70 Minutes
My Rating – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐☆☆☆

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If you know anything about me, you will know I like watching low budget horror films, and Tubi is the perfect platform to find them. I don’t actually like a lot of them, but I do find some of them dumb fun and good to put on when I want to turn my brain off. Although, some are just dumb without the fun part.

So I will be doing mini reviews, well more statements, about these films, much shorter than my other reviews, and my ratings for the films will generally be based on how much fun they are, because not many of them are actually good in the objective sense.

First up is Thankskilling.

Thankskilling

A possessed turkey terrorizes five college students during Thanksgiving break.

My Thoughts

Opens with boobs and murder

The first line in the movie is “Nice tits, bitch.” And the first scene features a topless pilgrim woman getting hunted by a puppet turkey. If you’re still watching after that, congratulations, you’re in this for the long haul. You’ve made peace with what’s about to happen to your brain.

All practical effects, mostly

The turkey is a puppet. A foul-mouthed, low-budget, possibly rubber puppet. And somehow, that works.

Deep commitment to trash

The best part is that Thankskilling knows it’s awful. It leans in hard. Every scene is laced with deliberate stupidity, and the cast plays it straight, which somehow makes it funnier.

Infinitely quotable

So many lines in the film are embarrassing and yet unforgettable. You’ll want to quote it. You’ll hate that you want to quote it. And then you’ll do it anyway at the worst possible time.

Your lose IQ points

This film is a weaponized version of dumb. The plot involves a killer turkey (literally named “Turkey”) hunting college students over Thanksgiving break because of some ancient curse that’s never really explained in a way anyone should care about.

The characters are incredibly flat

They’re just caricatures, but not the fun kind, just dumb, loud, and somehow always wandering off alone for no reason.

The soundtrack

You will hear banjo twangs, royalty-free tension tracks, and something that might’ve been ripped from a demo CD that came with an iMac. It’s perfect. It’s terrible. It will haunt you.

Barely a movie

At just over an hour, Thankskilling feels like a sketch that accidentally got turned into a feature.

Final Thoughts on Thankskilling

Thankskilling is trash. Absolute garbage. But the kind of garbage that makes you pause, laugh, and wonder how this got made, and then hit play again. It’s self-aware, aggressively stupid, and ideal for group watches with lots of alcohol.

This film very much fits the ‘so dumb it’s good’ vibe.

Final Score: 7 out of 10 – Because it’s hilarious.
UP: Killer turkey, puppet gore, one-liners.
DOWN: Acting, plot, sound, characters, literally everything else.

Thankskilling Trailer

Simon Leasher

A lover of cinema for over 35 years, I have watched many films from around the world in many different genres, yet I still normally always come back to trashy slasher horror films when in doubt. More

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