Thanksgiving will be extending the holiday festivities as the Eli Roth-directed slasher feature will be making its way into everyone’s humble abode. The holiday-themed movie will be coming to DVD and Blu-ray next year, scheduled for release on January 30, 2024.
Details about the special features have yet to be announced. You can check out the Thanksgiving Blu-ray cover down below:
Thanksgiving debuted to great success
While there have been a slew of slasher flicks over the past decades, Roth has managed to satisfy the viewer’s palate with the release of Thanksgiving on November 17, 2023. The film has garnered more than $45 million at the global box office against a $15 million budget. Due to its success, Roth has announced that they are already cooking up a sequel.
“John Carver will kill again! [Thanksgiving] sequel is a [go!],” Roth wrote on Instagram. “Go see it now on the big screen while it’s in cinemas, sequel set for release in 2025! Taking a year to really get the script right, working on it starting today!”
What is Thanksgiving about?
A long-overdue project that had been sitting in the oven for quite a long time, the feature-length expansion of Roth’s project first appeared as a fake trailer for 2007’s Grindhouse Double Feature. The film centers on an axe-wielding killer who terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts’ residents after a Black Friday riot ended in a blood-filled tragedy.
The film stars Nell Verlaque as Jessica, Addison Rae as Gabby, Patrick Dempsey as Sheriff Eric Newlon, Rick Hoffman as Thomas Wright, Jalen Thomas Brooks as Bobby, Milo Manheim as Ryan, and Gina Gershon as Amanda Collins, among others.
The synopsis for Thanksgiving reads as follows: “After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts — the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan. Will the town uncover the killer and survive the holidays…or become guests at his twisted holiday dinner table?”
