The best thing that can be said about Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is that it pays off some of the the unforgettable images from the fake trailer he made for it 16 years ago.

Expanding on his fake trailer from "Grindhouse," the director returns to a subgenre he knows well, the high-school slasher, with perfunctory, uneven results.

The entrails-strewn slasher outing "Thanksgiving" is predictably gory but, at its best, unpredictably nimble. I didn't know filmmaker Eli Roth had it in him.

A jokey 2007 trailer gets expanded into an entertainingly gory full-length horror about a killer dressed as a pilgrim wreaking havoc in a small town

Nell Verlaque, Patrick Dempsey, Rick Hoffman, and more star in Eli Roth's triumphant return to horror with "Grindhouse" slasher, "Thanksgiving."

Eli Roth makes a full length feature out of his 2007 spoof trailer.

Patrick Dempsey and TikToker Addison Rae star in an overbaked turkey of a movie.

Blending OTT gore, devilish humor and on-the-nose satire, Eli Roth's Thanksgiving is sick, twisted and hugely enjoyable

None of it makes much sense.

Eli Roth finally adapts his fake trailer into a real slasher movie – and it’s not without its nasty charms.

What started as a feature-length take on an ingenious fake trailer is now just another messy, lazy horror film that strains to be merely mediocre.

The holiday horror film is so out it's in, and what was once a satire of it now plays like hip trash.

Eli Roth returns with a new seasonal slasher. Read the Empire review of Thanksgiving here.

Horror fans will lap up the hardcore scenes in this turkey-themed extravaganza, elevated by Patrick Dempsey's winking sheriff

The horror director's fake ‘Grindhouse’ trailer is now a feature-length parade of inspired slasher set pieces.

NOW IN THEATERS! Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving marks the second time a "faux trailer" from 2007’s double-feature Grindhouse has been adapted by its creator into a feature-length film. While Robert Rodriguez’s Machete stayed truer to the Z-movie exploitation flicks to which he and Quentin Tarantino paid tribute, Thanksgiving is the better film, never allowing throwback vibes

Bloody, entertaining and knowingly ridiculous, Elli Roth's Thanksgiving up plenty of perishable screams, a high body count and a delicious turn from Patrick Dempsey

Thanksgiving, the new horror movie from Eli Roth, is a mysterious, hilarious slasher equal to Wes Craven’s Scream movies. In theaters Nov. 17.

Eli Roth's fake trailer gets a real (and really fun) slasher

If you prefer to spend your holiday watching a serial killer off his victims in gory and inventive, Thanksgiving-themed ways, then Eli Roth’s gnarly new horror film is for you.

Eli Roth's back to take more perverse pleasure in pain -- his movies' "victims," and that of viewers laughing at the gore but grimacing at the cruelty -- with a holiday treat titled "Thanksgiving." At least with "Thanksgiving," a splatter comedy that brings "Halloween" to Turkey Day, he's moved on from "torture porn." More or…

The new slasher movie from director Eli Roth is gory and funny and a good time for seasoned and novice horror fans alike.

Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving is a slasher for today, slickly made, coolly mean, and with a satiric bite.

With the horror slasher "Thanksgiving," Eli Roth delivers what he always does: plenty of gore, shock and carnage, writes our reviewer.

Thanksgiving easily affirms that when his script isn’t simply a pile of guts, Eli Roth can be a wicked good entertainer.