Too Scary; Didn't Watch - Bonus Episode: THANKSGIVING

Episode Date: November 24, 2023

It's our November bonus recap and what better way to practice gratitude than to discuss Eli Roth's new slasher...Thanksgiving?! You will come home for the holidays...in a body bag.Thanksgiving is in theaters nowFull episode is available on our Patreon. Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram.Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy.Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Bonus episode number two for the month of November in the year 2023 thanksgiving episode and more ways than one and quite literally exactly that what what better way to spend thanksgiving what could we be more thankful for than eli roth truly the gift that keeps on giving. He just gave us no goddamn choice, you know? Yeah. So, yeah. You know, in real time, Thanksgiving was yesterday.

Oh, yeah. So. I know nothing about this movie. I'm going in totally blind here. Yeah. Okay. Well, yes, we are going to be talking about Thanksgiving. Directed by Eli Roth.

Written by Eli Roth and Jeff Rendell. In theaters now. Starring Nell Verluck. Patrick Dempsey. People's Sexiest Man Alive. Wow. Patrick Dempsey's in this? People's Sexiest Man Alive.

Of 2023. Wait. Mick Dreamy. He's Mick Dreamy, right? He's mc dreamy he's a beautiful man as opposed to mc steamy i think mc steamy is hotter personally i never watched it so i don't know who makes me i feel like you would get really into gray's anatomy i feel like a good show for medical stuff the first like seven seasons Are really good and then Is it still on?

But it's like probably entirely Different actors at this point right? Yeah I think a lot of them I think Meredith is gone Oh my god no way But it's her anatomy I know Mick Steamy

Who is that? He's also in Euphoria. Eric Dane. He has a huge, huge, huge jaw. He's the biggest jaw you've ever seen. Based on photos alone, he's not for me. Yeah, same. He's not my type either.

I'm more of a Mick Steamy type of boy. He kind of looks a little bit like a werewolf. Oh, maybe it's because I like Oh maybe Maybe I'm getting Taylor Lautner vibes honestly I do get Taylor Lautner vibes from photos alone That's funny like Taylor Lautner sort of mixed with Um uh

Carlisle yeah So that's I mean that's a vampire But you know you get it anyway not for me Well McDreamy's not the only other person in this movie There's also Rick Hoffman Jalen Thomas Brooks Gabriel Davenport and Addison Rae

Who I'm not really familiar with But I know she's very famous TikTok TikTok baby Addison Rae is the butt of a lot of internet jokes Because she's The pinnacle of a white girl Dancing she was like famous

Oh she's like a TikTok dancer Yeah she made a bunch of She became super famous off of her TikTok dances And then essentially everyone was like That's insane she's just a white girl Dancing why is she so famous For doing like really basic dance moves Right place right time baby

Right place right time Yeah yeah yeah good for her Look at her Now in an Eli Roth horror movie She can do it all She can do it all Obviously a beautiful Young woman

But I'll just say this I just looked at a bunch of pictures of her And I couldn't tell you what she looks like Yeah Every picture of her looks like A different person Kind of genuinely it does True she does have like all different hair colors And makeup looks

And yeah But Should we talk about Thanksgiving I do have another thought I want to tell you guys that I thought about this week that is maybe it sounds like the sort of thought you have when you're really high and I'm not and wasn't when I thought

of it and it still blows my mind which is that Thanksgiving is the one day of the year where pretty much everyone is eating basically the same thing. In America. In America. I know it's a food-based holiday.

We get it. But still, think about it. Any household, as far as the eye can see, your family on the other side of the country, every single person you know on that day at some point is eating basically the same thing that you're eating. Yep. That's fucking crazy. They're going to have some mashed potatoes. It's like the basis of a conspiracy theory.

Like that's how the government gets what it needs to into our bodies. It's absolutely insane. It's like we talk about turkeys. We talk about like, oh, my God. Yeah. Like so many turkeys are consumed on Thanksgiving. like think about all the turkeys that people get on thanksgiving it's like yeah yeah just imagine too though that like we're all eating green beans we're all eating a like a green bean or a brussels sprout we're all having corn somewhere we're all

it's like all of us all of us in our homes eating the same thing. It's honestly freaky. Pie? Pumpkin pie? Pumpkin pie? Pecan pie? Apple pie? It's very, it's very interesting. That is a little unsettling. That's a lot to think about.

There's a lot to unpack here. That's a lot to think about. I don't think anybody's ever thought about it in that way before. Well, this movie's going gonna be freaky for you because yes there is food in it and it's gonna seem familiar oh my god i bet i know some of the key items um thanksgiving has an 83 on rotten tomatoes 63 on metacritic 7.1 on imdb wow eli above average eli yes um the budget was 15 million and it just opened this past weekend and so far has made 12.6 million pretty good uh this is the first movie that he directed since Hostel to break 10 million on an opening weekend. Okay.

Wrote down some numbers here. Hostel's opening weekend was 9.6 million. That was 2005. Green Inferno, 2013, made 3.5 million. Big drop off there. 3.5 million too much. Oh, yeah. It should have been VOD.

Why did it even come out in theaters? And knock, knock. 2015 made 18,600. Shut up. No way. Really? 18,000? It must have only been a limited theater release.

Yeah, I was wondering that. Yeah, that can't be right. That's like 10 people went to see that movie. It's really funny. I mean, I hope it was a theater release. Yeah, I was wondering that. Yeah, that can't be right. That's like 10 people went to see that movie. It's really funny. I mean, I hope it was a wide release and it just shit the bed. Although I'll remind you guys, knock, knock,

I think it's my favorite Eli Roth movie. Right, yeah. And Keanu, I mean. Yeah, Keanu's in it. I was genuinely very funny and stupid. And it's the most fun I've had Watching an Eli Roth movie Including this one but

I did have a good I had a Pretty good time in this one It's no Green Inferno It's no Green Inferno Thank God for that And I like barely remember Hostel but Yeah I would place this second in the movies we've spoken about. So it'll go knock, knock Thanksgiving, then quite a drop to Green Inferno. That's all the Eli Roth we've done, right?

I think so. Yeah. Also impressive that it did this well with no promotion. I mean, people weren't really able to promote it. Yeah, that's true. But I bet Addison Rae got in there the second she could and was like, no worries. I'll tell my 15 million followers. This movie is based on a fake trailer that was in the movie Grindhouse in 2007. Do you remember that was like Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez? It was a two part movie with Planet Terror as the first movie and Death Proof as the second movie.

It did it in like 70s Grindhouse style. And so in the middle of the two movies, they played a few trailers that were directed by other horror directors and so eli roth directed a trailer for it called thanksgiving that was very funny i used to quote it all the time the voiceover artist in it uh has this very deep voice like the you know 70s trailers do horror trailers do and there's a couple lines from it that i would say all the time and one of them was you will be coming home for the holidays in a body bag is it um is that the trailer that is the trailer for the movie or did they cut a new trailer no so there's a new trailer and eli roth said that this movie is not meant to be the version that that trailer was for it

he says let's pretend thanksgiving was a movie from 1980 that was so offensive that every print was destroyed all the scripts were burned the director disappeared the crew members changed their names one person saved the trailer and uploaded it to the darkest corners of 4chan and now it's made it out so this is a 2023 reboot of the 1980 thanksgiving i just i know we talk shit on eli roth all the, but like, Eli, what? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Sorry, sorry. Just back up for a second. So this is a remake of the, based on the trailer that was released on 4chan? Yes.

Okay, okay. All right. Got it. I mean, I don't think it was actually released on 4chan. No, no, I know. That's like the story he's telling. He wants to live in a world where he's rebooting the most offensive movie ever made yes and there are some things in the trailer that are very offensive and luckily someone must have told him to scale

those back a bit i'll talk about them when we get there but there were some things that i was really dreading oh god oh god okay um and luckily And luckily, they're not as bad as the 2007 version of them, which makes sense because 2007 was a darker time for Eli Roth and horror films. I want to talk to Eli Roth more because it sounds to me like his whole brand is just pushing the envelope to push the envelope. And that's why it's just doing it for the sake of doing it. I think that's exactly right. I really just want to hear from him some more nuance. I want to give him a chance to explain to me why that's not stupid. And also why it's boring after a while.

You know, it's kind of boring after a while it's it's kind of like lady gaga's thing could only last for so long like you saw what happened to carly waddell of Bachelor in Paradise when she just talked shit on Lady Gaga. Oh, no. Oh, no. Fuck. People don't hate me for this. But I think Gaga would agree with this herself. I mean, you can't just keep.

There's got to be something more. You don't just want to do one note forever and ever. Yeah. You got to evolve. You got to evolve. You got to evolve. And you got to. There's got to be more depth.

There's got to be more layers. Unless, of course, you're a male director in the horror space and then you don't have to change at all literally ever i just want him to i just want him to tell me that's not true look we haven't heard the movie recap yet so perhaps this will be the one that changes at all it won't but maybe it will. Is this going to ruin Thanksgiving for me? No! A holiday that's not tainted by anything else at all, and it's only a positive thing. It's only a good thing, and nothing bad has ever happened. Don't make it bad! Don't make it bad! Yeah, Thanksgiving, so far unmarred by any historical conflict whatsoever.

Eli Roth is the first person who's dared to try to do anything to make Thanksgiving, give Thanksgiving a bad name. Let's ruin an otherwise perfect holiday. Thanksgiving. OK, let's do it. Let's just do it. Let's tarnish it. Let's do it. Let's just do it.

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