Newsflash: your family isn’t the most screwed up one. Thanksgiving season is hardly easy for anyone. Some have to travel hundreds of miles to see the people they don’t even get along with. Others have to spend hours in the kitchen making dishes they don’t even like. But for some reason we still follow all the Thanksgiving tropes every November. If you want to spice up your holiday just a little, we’ve got you covered with our list of creative viewing options to eat with your after-dinner pumpkin pie.
House of Yes (1997)
“I’m going to base the turkey and hide the kitchen knives.”
Gotta love the '90s! Back then teen idols Tori Spelling and Freddie Prinze jr. could star in a movie dedicated solely to the topic of incest. Imagine going to your fiancé's family's house for Thanksgiving during a Hurricane, only to discover he had an affair with his twin sister who’s not just obsessed with Jackie Kennedy but also plans to do everything to keep the love of her life home. The movie featured a career-defying performance by Parker Posey and was directed by Mark Waters, who later made Mean Girls.
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Don’t want to spend the Thanksgiving weekend with your family and need some extra cash? You can follow the example of the student (played by Chris O’Donnell) from this drama and babysit a retired blind Army lieutenant (Al Pacino), who’ll turn out to be an alcoholic and the best teacher a young man can have. Quick question: how many of you signed up for a tango lesson after this famous scene?
ThanksKilling (2009)
This movie is exactly what you think it is: a lowest-budget horror comedy about a joke-cracking demonic Turkie that runs around town murdering idiots. Turkie was a creation of some devious Native American shaman who got pissed at a Pilgrim and created a monster bound to kill every Caucasian person he meets. The movie was so nihilistic that the filmmakers skipped a sequel and went straight to ThanksKilling 3.
Kristy (2014)
Thinking about staying at the dorm with your best friend and having a family-free Thanksgiving? Well, your BFF may leave you last minute and you’ll be left all alone at this huge dark dormitory. To make matters even worse, a bunch of hooded members of some murderous cybercult may pop up at your door to slay you and gain some sort of internet fame. That’s the premise of this holiday-themed slasher, which sees the titular character running for her life instead of passing the gravy to her relatives. Next year maybe just go see your family, Kristy?
The Ice Storm (1997)
This Ang Lee-directed drama was based on the novel of the same name by Rick Moody and told the story of not one, but two uber-dysfunctional families in Connecticut during early '70s. The characters stuff their lives with all sorts of activities — from sexual partner swapping to uncontrolled alcohol consumption. The movie was a major career opportunity for Christina Ricci, Katie Holmes, Tobey Maguire and Elijah Wood and stood the test of time as a universally appealing story of excess that can either break a family or unite it.
Thanksgiving (2007)
Out of all the Grindhouse-related projects, this one got the horror genre’s fans bothered the most. This is basically a trailer for a movie-that-never-was, which promised us the raunchiest, cheesiest and most fun Thanksgiving-themed slasher of all time. No wonder it was directed by Eli Roth, responsible for shock-flicks like Hostel and Cabin Fever. Our advice: do not watch this short before sitting down to family dinner. “This year there will be no leftovers,” promised the blood-tastic trailer. Please turn it into a proper feature already, mister Roth!
Blood Rage (1987)
What a charming title, isn’t it? The late '80s horror movie told a story of a serial killer named Todd, who escaped the mental institution to turn Thanksgiving night at his hometown into one hell of a bloody mess. The twist: what if Todd isn’t really the killer and someone else is here to carve his family? This Halloween/Friday the 13th knockoff is long-forgotten and hardly a masterpiece, but may serve as nice after-meal, old-school entertainment for the blood-thirsty genre fans.
Pieces of April (2003)
After her stint on The Ice Storm, Katie Holmes was called to carry another Thanksgiving-themed movie all on her own in this indie production. A far cry from her character on Dawson’s Creek, Holmes plays a rebellious New York girl, who’s desperate to make this family gathering work no matter what. Can’t cook? There are cans for that. Broken stove? Time to befriend the neighbors. Your family doesn’t even like you? That’s what Thanksgivings are for!
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