Happy Thanksgiving! This week, we’re diving into the 2008 horror-comedy, ‘Thankskilling.’

Join us as we dissect this intentionally bad, yet oddly endearing film featuring a killer turkey on a rampage. From bizarre animated sequences to hilarious one-liners, ‘Thankskilling’ offers a unique blend of low-budget charm and absurdity.

We discuss the film’s most memorable moments, its cult status, and why it might just be the perfect movie for a goofy Thanksgiving gathering with friends. Don’t forget to share your thoughts in the comments; we love hearing from you all!

Episode 466, 2 Guys and a Chainsaw Horror Movie Review Podcast

Todd: Hello and welcome to another episode of Two Guys and a Chainsaw. I’m Todd.

Craig: And I’m Craig.

Todd: Happy Thanksgiving. Craig, 

Craig: happy Thanksgiving to you. It really snuck up, didn’t it? It sure did. I don’t know if that’s a result of us getting older or there’s just so much going on in the world that, you know, you’re constantly berated with news and information, but it, it really.

Snuck up. But yeah, I’m grateful that it’s here. I’m grateful to have a few days off this week, and then Christmas break is 

Todd: right around the corner. Really, that’s what’s really sneaking up is Christmas. I mean, Thanksgiving is the harbinger of that, but I’m recording this from a Airbnb in Thailand. I’m in a different place now than I was a few months ago.

I, I tell you, I’m feeling, I’m feeling like a, like 180 degrees. In the opposite direction. Just energized, really happy. Well, I’m glad to hear it. So I’m very thankful. I’m glad we’re celebrating Thanksgiving and where I was actually kind of going with that was one thing that surprised me being here is there is fricking Christmas decorations everywhere.

Oh. Isn’t a shopping mall. There’s a big display. There are kids playing in fake snow down in the lobby of the A condo I’m staying in right now. There’s a Christmas tree and Merry Christmas shit on the walls. I’m like, is it that time already? No, 

Craig: it’s nuts here in the states too. I don’t know if it’s. I don’t know what it’s because of, I have some theories, but the day after Halloween was over, I was walking the dog and Christmas trees, Christmas lights.

It used to be that people waited until the day after Thanksgiving, but that’s just not the case anymore. We just right around here anyway, in the Midwest, people go right from. Halloween to Christmas and it’s wild. Crazy. We haven’t jumped on that train yet. We probably will at some point because Christmas is Alan’s favorite.

You know, if it were up to him, we would just, oh, celebrate Christmas all the year round. But even he is like, no, we have to at least wait until after Thanksgiving’s over. Well, that’s nice. Yeah. It’s It’s wild. It is wild. Yeah. People are already in the mood. One of my theories, I don’t mind saying it, is, I think that there’s a lot of.

Ugly and sad and scary things going on in the world. Mm. And Christmas makes people happy. You know, the Christmas tree, the lights, the decorations. 

Todd: Mm. It makes 

Craig: people happy. 

Todd: We just wanna get to it sooner. 

Craig: Yeah. Well not even necessarily get to it sooner, but it gives them some respite from the ugliness of the world.

And if people want to hang. Keep your Christmas tree up all year round. If it makes you happy, like yeah, I am certainly not gonna judge. We all have to find. Things that make us happy. Indeed, we do 

Todd: Thanksgiving. Oh boy. Thanksgiving. So, uh, happy Thanksgiving, Craig. 

I’m trying to, yeah, I’m, I know, I know. 

Craig: I, I’m trying, I’m trying to get to it too.

I don’t know why I’m trying to get to it so quickly because I feel like we could talk about this movie in five. Minutes, 

Todd: five minutes. It will not, this might be our shortest episode ever. We said it before, it might be, but this might, it might actually be the case this time. 

Craig: We’ve been doing Thanksgiving films for 15 years or however long we’ve been doing this.

Not quite 10, 10, 11. I’m sorry. I was gonna say this year it just, uh, it almost got away from us. You’ve been very busy. I’ve had things going on. We’ve had things planned and we’ve had to, you know, kind of move the schedule around several times and Thanksgiving just never came up. And I feel like you texted me a couple days ago and you’re like, oh, the movie we thought we were gonna do, we’re not ready to do yet.

What should we do? And I suggested something, but then I was like, wait, should we do a Thanksgiving movie? And you said, thanks, killing. And I feel like you’ve been bringing this up for years. It’s just on our list every year. 

Todd: Every year you mention it, I put it on the list, but I have been putting it off because I knew this was gonna be.

Like trauma level bad. Mm-hmm. So I just, and don’t get me wrong, I love trauma. I know level bad. The problem is this is not trauma level, this is sub trauma. Trauma is, trauma is cute and fun and charming. I don’t know, it’s hard for me to, it’s just self-aware. Bad. Yeah. Yeah. And uh, a lot of times that is just dumb.

Somehow with trauma movies, the Dumbness is, gets transcended by some other quality that I can’t pinpoint, but it, they’re just, they’re fun because of it. There’s like a punk aesthetic about it. 

Craig: Yeah. I would argue that in trauma movies, as stupid as they are and they are stupid, there’s something smart behind the writing of them.

Like, yes, the writers. Get what they’re doing and they’re making good jokes or good visual jokes or whatever. I don’t know, it just seems like there’s more behind it. Now I’m gonna defend this movie. I almost texted you while I was watching it. I didn’t know if you had seen it yet or not, but I almost texted you while I was watching it to say, I get that this is intentionally bad.

Yeah. But boy oh boy. Like, yeah. Ugh. At the same time, and I hope you know more about it than I do, because I really don’t know a lot about it. I know that it was shot on like a budget of hundreds of dollars. Like we’re not talking about a big budget thing. I’m shocked. I think these kids who made the movie were in school like this would be comparable.

And like, excuse me, I don’t be offended by the comparison, but I would say that this would be comparable to the kinds of movies that you may have been making in college. 

Todd: A hundred percent. 

Craig: I was never a part of those, but I, there were other people that were making student films on campus that I was a part of.

And this made me think of that. It’s dumb. It’s not going to be good. Like I don’t consider myself a good actor, but I know that in whatever was filmed of me in that student film that I did was just abs. It was terrible. So I’m trying to come at it from the perspective of it is what it is. Right. And thank God it’s only an hour and 10 minutes long, 

Todd: actually.

Yes. If this movie had tried to fill time. It would’ve been insufferable. And I think that’s to their credit, that they followed their story in a way. The story, the story’s actually pretty tight when you look at it. Yeah, it’s fine. It moves. There’s always something mildly interesting happening. In fact, part of the problem is maybe it moves too quickly.

It just, it’s quite jumpy at at moments. But again, like you say, they are not just self-aware, but they set out to be like, let’s make a really dumb, really bad movie with bad jokes and bad acting and call it parody. Sometimes that works and sometimes you’re trying too hard and I. Think this. I’m not gonna go so far as to say that this.

Fails. But I would say it’s riding the line for me. It’s really riding the line between Oh, okay guys. Come on. And, huh. You know, it’s kind of funny, you know, I, I, I, I dug, I, I dig that. I, I see what they’re going for. I mean, I’m not gonna like gaw at it, but, uh, it’s cute, it’s 

Craig: stupid. And it came out in 2008, you know, I don’t know what audience they were targeting.

Probably their friends. Yeah. And, you know what I mean? It’s fun. Themselves, you know? Yeah. I mean, just having a good time and I can appreciate that. I didn’t particularly enjoy it, but I am an old man, so my review of it is skewed if, if nothing else. But I did appreciate the ambition. 

Clip: Yeah. 

Craig: You know, to throw that word around loosely, I, I don’t think that they were super ambitious, but they wanted to do something.

Did it and good for you. Right. Honestly, I, I didn’t hate it. I really didn’t because I could appreciate it. I could see this looks like some people having a good time doing something fun and it’s fun and stupid and it doesn’t take itself seriously at all. And it’s not trying to get me to take it seriously at all.

Yeah. It’s just a dumb, stupid thing. And that’s fine. 

Todd: To be honest, that maybe saves it. Yeah. You know, is that it doesn’t demand a lot from us. 

Craig: No, 

Todd: no. And I think that helps. Like it helps a lot. I was not taxed watching this movie. No. Like I have been, you know, for some dumb movies that we watch, I’m quite taxed, you know, I’m like, oh god, these people want me to take it seriously.

What’s going on here? 

Craig: Well, it’s funny because it would be probably a really funny 62nd SNL sketch, 

Todd: right? You 

Craig: know, this. Ridiculous puppet, killer Turkey on Thanksgiving attacking people, celebrating Thanksgiving. The concept is funny. Yeah. But there’s a reason that those sketches are, you know, three minutes, four minutes long.

Yeah. It’s, it’s rare. It’s not. Impossible, but it’s rare that you can stretch out that material into a full feature. Well, and this arguably, I would say that this really is a series of sketches, basically with a killer Turkey in it, and there’s a through line, but it’s all about the. Jokes. And the absurdity.

And the absurdity. And dropping. Funny lines. Funny lines that arguably I found very funny, but I don’t need an 

Todd: hour of it. I, now that I’m thinking about it now that you kind of mentioned that, I think what saves the movie and kept it from being totally insufferable was that they didn’t try to do the same thing over and over and over again.

Craig: Yeah. 

Todd: The first time the Turkey kills somebody, it’s. Quite ridiculous and surprising that somehow there’s an ax involved or a hatchet or whatever. Like yeah, what? Like the movie literally opens. With a closeup on a nipple. 

Craig: The bouncing boobs. I know. And I thought you were gonna be a huge fan of this movie.

I’m like, oh great. It’s gonna be a Todd movie. I was a huge fan of the first five minutes. It’s, it’s so funny ’cause it opens up with text that says the year is 1621. The olden days, moments after the very first Thanksgiving. And then it’s just a full screen of. Tits and it pulls out so that you see that it’s pilgrim tits.

There’s no explanation for why her tits are out. Right? Like it’s just not at all like as though as though the pilgrims just went to Thanksgiving dinner with their tits out, but she’s running through the woods. Oh man. What I was gonna ask you was if you knew anything about this woman, I think her name is Wanda Lust.

Todd: I love, is that your name? I love how you assume. You know, not without reason that I might know something about a porn actress. No, I have never heard of this woman. I mean, to 2008, you know, where was I in 2008? I was quite busy in Kirksville putting a building together, I guess. But you know, I’m sure she’s, she had been in the business for a while, since then.

I assume she was one of these internet porn actresses. I don’t think she was one of these who was in movies that you know 

Craig: well, they cast her off Craigslist, so, 

Todd: yeah. And she was the only paid person in this, right. Oh, I don’t know. Yeah, she was the only person who was actually paid, which is ironic on like two different levels because the only person paid in this movie was a porn actress whose boob mostly her boobs.

Are in it for the first five minutes, and that’s a gag. Big natural boobs. Yeah, they’re beautiful. Impressed. Yeah. And that’s a gag, you know? That’s fine. Especially if you’re trying to make a quote unquote, typical horror movie and you’re spoofing it or whatnot. Sure, sure. But it’s almost like the most unnecessary thing to pay for.

Like boobs should be the cheapest thing, you know? Who is it? One of my favorite. One of my favorite. Jim Wy Norski. One of his greatest, uh, quotes that I always remember is he says, breasts are the cheapest special effect we have. That’s funny. And I thought you, of all the things you had to cast off a Craigslist, it was the boobs.

Well, I wonder, very few films have this level of care, let me just put it that way. Towards their boobs casting, 

Craig: I had, I had wondered if they hired her as a name. You know, like these low budget films often. Oh right. Try to, will try to get. Either a porn star who has a big name, or somebody in the horror industry who has a big name to cameo, and they’ll throw a little bit of money at them.

And of course, you know these people, they have to work. I mean, this girl was, yeah. Advertising on Craigslist or whatever. I don’t know. I did read something that said that. She said that of all the things that she’s done on film, this was the thing that she was most embarrassed about. 

Todd: Yeah, that is I, I believe it.

Because that’s the other level of irony to this. The one actor that they paid in this movie, I would say, is the worst actor in the entire film. She can’t even get a scared expression on her face. She’s just kind of running through the woods and she just looks puzzled and she’s not even trying to run.

It’s. Sad, and this is the way you open your movie. I mean, if it weren’t for the boobs, well absolutely. Most people would’ve turned it off by now. Like really? Like after two minutes seeing the degree of acting here, it was really that bad. I 

Craig: actually think that it sets the tone, like this tells you what kind of movie you’re getting into because yeah, she’s just a, a porn actress with her boobs out running.

Through what is probably the trees at the back of a parking lot or somebody’s backyard. Yeah, yeah. Right. And this, and you get like a POV, which ends up being the Turkey, POV, like chasing her and then it kills her. I don’t even remember how it kills her with Turkey. A hatchet. That’s right. You already said that.

And I was going to say like it doesn’t try to tell you how the Turkey is handling a hatchet, 

Todd: right? Or any of the other implements the Turkey ends up handling throughout this movie. 

Craig: No. You only ever see the Turkey kind of from. Halfway up and it’s just a silly Turkey puppet. I think that I read that the budget for the effects was like $300 or something for the whole movie, and it’s just this goofy, gross Turkey puppet, but it chases her down and it kills her.

You see, I think a shadow of it. Hacking her with a ax and then it goes nice tits bitch. It just has this like low like, I don’t know, like jersey or, yeah, just this low man’s voice. There’s nothing Turkey about it. It’s just no nice tits 

Todd: bitch. It’s. Honestly a little endearing and, and it would reminded me of some, but something I couldn’t remember.

I was trying to figure out who, maybe it was just kind of atypical, cartoonish type voice that, that they were going for, and I think it was the director’s voice. I think I was likening a little bit to sorority babes and slime ball orama. You know, the red one. Yeah. But not as much fun. Yeah. Not nearly as as well done as that one.

Yeah. Not as much fun. Yeah. That’s what we get. And you’re right, it sets this tone of goofiness, like a Turkey with a hatchet and the boobs and the really cheap effects. It sets it up so that you know right away if you’re gonna want continue watching this movie or not. Right. And I would 

Craig: have turned it off if, if we weren’t watching it for this, I would’ve turned it off.

Todd: Yeah, I would’ve too. This isn’t, this just isn’t my thing. It’s not so silly that it’s. Captivating or endearing. It’s like dumb, odd, silly. You could hope it might get better or you could hope it might 

Craig: get interesting. I usually save this for the end, but like normally I would say put it on at a gathering.

You know, there’s just, but there’s not really even enough going on that there’s fun things to see, like, 

Todd: yeah. Yeah. You’d have to be listening. 

Craig: Things come and go. 

Todd: Yeah, the dialogue, I don’t know. 

Craig: Then it immediately cuts to a college campus and it doesn’t give us an update on what the date it is. So I assume it’s just modern day and it introduces us to this cast of dumb dumbs, and they’re all.

Stupid, stupid stereotypes, which again, I get it. Yeah. They’re doing it on purpose. It’s not like they’re unaware of what they’re doing. Right. This is intentional and that’s fine. So there’s a big fact I, I hesitate to say that ’cause of all the people in this movie, he’s the guy that probably looks the most like me, but there’s a big fat guy named Billy, and then there’s a haw game.

Hot guy named Johnny and a nerd named Darren and the nice girl named Kristen and the dumb slut named Allie. Yeah, and I don’t know, they’re all what? Carpooling, I guess, to go home from college, except it seems like they all live in the same town. Yeah. I dunno what’s going on. I don’t know. It doesn’t make any sense.

It doesn’t matter, but like the whole movie is just made up. Most of my notes are just records of the stupid lines. Like Billy, the fat guy comes out 

Clip: Thanksgiving break. Yes, yes. Damn, Billy, show those puppies up. No, can see your nasty titties. I’m trying to get Allie to show her big old tig up. Yeah, bring break guys.

Let’s get wasted. Pull your shirt down, honey. It’s Thanksgiving, not tips giving. 

Craig: And that folks is what you’re gonna get for the rest of the movie. Yeah. Just dumb groaner lines. Not to say that I didn’t find them amusing. I found them amusing, but amusing in the way that like, you just roll your eyes like, oh boy.

Well, 

Todd: and the problem is it’s amusing in the way that it knows it’s suppo, it’s dumb, you know? So it’s like. Hey guys, laugh at this line that we wrote that is so stupid that we know you’re gonna laugh at it because it’s stupid. And a groaner. 

Craig: Yeah, right. 

Todd: There’s not a lot of earnestness behind it. It’s just, that’s kind of what it is.

And, and that’s fine. I don’t wanna sound like a grouch about it, you know? No me’s still silly fun lines, you know? And, and I 

Craig: unders, like I said, I, I, I feel like I started the podcast by saying I’m an old man. Old man there. There’s certainly an audience for this and that’s why I don’t wanna poo poh it too much because if you find this hilarious and you can sit around with your friends and laugh at this, kudos.

I love that. Like I, I know that there’s an audience for it, and there may have even been some time in my life where I would’ve been just tickled pink, but. It’s not 

Todd: now. 

Craig: I mean, 

Todd: dare I say, dare I say that maybe this movie was a little ahead of its time for like a flash, and then it very quickly became behind its time to the point where now we watch it and we’re like, I can see what they’re trying to do here.

But there’s so much that has done this so much more successfully, way better, even working with a really low budget and bad acting. 

Craig: You remember? Yeah. You remember things way better than I do. What was that movie? That was super low budget and scream claimed that they stole their idea and yeah. Um, they kept throwing cats.

Todd: Yeah, it’s, uh, don’t, don’t look in the woods or don’t, don’t look now, something like, something like, like that. 

Craig: Um, this reminds me of that. I mean, it really looks like this movie seems like they were having a good time making it. Celebrate that and the fact that there’s an audience for it and that there are people who like it.

I love that. I absolutely love it. I, it’s not something that I would choose, but taste is taste. It’s subjective. 

Clip: Yeah. Yeah. 

Craig: And, and I wouldn’t even, like if somebody was like, oh, I love this movie. I, I wouldn’t say, oh, well. Then you’re a big dumb dumb ’cause it’s stupid. No. I’d be like, that’s great. I’m glad you like it.

I see what they were trying to do. I’m glad you could find the humor in it. I’m a big stick in the mud. Yeah. Speaking of big sticks in the mud, there’s a, there’s a totem totem, which is unexplained. Doesn’t need to be, I suppose. Yeah, it 

doesn’t matter. I 

Craig: they, they got it at the dollar store. I’m sure they just needed something to revive.

And I actually thought this was maybe one of my favorite jokes in the movie, that they just have this random like. Literally like a miniature totem pole 

Todd: stuck into the ground, which has been there since 1600 something. Yeah. So it’s a couple hundred years old and looks like it was freshly painted at the factory yesterday.

Craig: Yeah. 

Todd: And 

Craig: a dog, a Collie whose name I thought was Lassie, but it just rhymes with Lassie pees on it and wakes up. The Turkey. And I actually FI was amused by that because that’s one of my favorite parts of nightmare on Elm Street four when the dog pees on Freddy’s grave. Yeah. And it brings him back to life.

But anyway, so the 

Todd: Turkey wakes up, kills the dog. It does. And it kills the dog. Uh, with a, what did it kill it with? It wasn’t, its beat, I don’t remember. I don’t know. Anyway, and there’s this old man in the woods, and you know, the woods. All the trees are planted in lines, so you know that this woods is just like a park somewhere, right?

He goes to the dog, looks up at the sky, why? And now he’s our man. I don’t even know what his name is. I just called him Scraggly guy with a, with a rifle. Yeah. Hillbilly. Yeah, that’s what I call him. He’s our hillbilly. And so his. Role in the movie is the typical, now he’s going to hunt. Yeah. That, that guy in that movie?

Yeah. Mm-hmm. There’s always a guy like this in a movie where the Turkey killed his beloved dog, and so now he’s out hunting the Turkey. Right. That’s his life goal. And then he runs into the kids. That’s kind of what happens. So the kids meanwhile on the drive, the truck starts smoking and they’re stuck by the side of the road and good thing they had a whole bunch of tents in back there.

Yeah. I didn’t know they were planning on camping, but. They end up deciding, well, why don’t we just camp? ’cause it’s too late to fix the car, which apparently they’re able to fix on their own without help. They just needed to wait till morning to do it. I guess the light, I guess, I don’t know, nobody else drives by on this road anyway, so they decide to camp in the woods and in the woods.

Darren tells this story about. Is it before or after? No, this is when he tells the story. I can’t remember what he, why he’s motivated to tell the story. Is it because the old man jumps in there? Oh yeah. It’s 

Craig: no. As they’re walking to where they’re gonna set up their camp, he trips over something and it ends up being a sign like, oh yes, welcome to Berg, or something like that.

Todd: That’s 

Craig: right. You skipped it. It’s so unimportant. But I want to bring it up really quick. We get a little interstitial scene where there’s a sheriff. Who appears to be wearing like two false eyelashes on his lip that to look like a mustache. A mustache good. But his wife serves him coffee and he just says, this coffee tastes like shit.

And she’s like, oh my God, that’s ’cause I took a dump in it. And it shows the coffee pot with. Turds in it. And this scene, this scene is completely inconsequential. It means nothing. We never see this woman again, but just the camera showing us turds in the bottom of the coffee that he, oh my God, that’s the kind of movie that you’re getting into.

Yeah. And she’s like, I want a divorce. 

Todd: He is like, okay. She leaves and we don’t see her again. Oh, the crawler story. Oh God. I didn’t write it all down, but basically. There was a, a really, really powerful but really mean pilgrim who was taking women. And the whole story is told with this, it looks like flash animation from the early ages of the internet done up with these cartoons that.

They reminded me of something. They reminded me of the covers of the Jerky Boys CDs. I don’t know if you remember those, or Green Jelly, which or Green Jello, that Band Green Jello, which later had to change their name to Green Jelly. It’s that same art style. It’s an, it’s a kind of pop art style that looks like a graffiti as well.

Anyway, it’s like they took that and made ’em into flash images and. At the end of the day, the, there’s an Indian, native American Indian who’s very angry, this guy. And so he curses him and he curses a Turkey and decides that he’s gonna curse all white men through this Turkey. And so the Turkey. Goes around and destroys all pilgrims.

It’s really almost tasteless, illustrated. But yeah, I don’t have much, I know I, I don’t have much to say about it. I, I, I didn’t really even catch it all, to be honest with you. Like what the significance of this Indian guy, and I kind of 

Craig: enjoyed the animation just because it was. It’s, yeah, it was kind of goofy, a break from what we had been seeing.

And I do like animated sequences well and 

Todd: good for them. Yeah. 

Craig: Yeah. I like animated sequences. 

Todd: You know, they did throw a few things like this in there. Yeah. Animated sequence. That’s kind fun’s. Yeah. 

Craig: Yeah. And, but the, the. The Feather Cloud, the Indian was wronged not only just by somebody, but it also, it happens to be Billy, the hot guy’s ancestor.

We should also mention that I, I think that these, I think that these people are supposed to be in high school, but they are, they are well into their twenties at least. The guy daring, Johnny’s the hot guy. Johnny’s Johnny? I don’t know. Yeah, that’s right. I Billy’s the, I think I kept Oh, okay. Right, right, right.

I, I think it was then, I think it was Johnny’s ancestor. I don’t know. It doesn’t matter. 

Todd: Yeah. 

Craig: But, uh, like Darren is, his hairline looks like mine, and I imagine that this guy is significantly younger than me. He’s. Certainly not in high school. 

Todd: No, 

Craig: but this, this was, you know, the evil Turkey was created. 

Todd: I went crazy.

Craig: This is where hillbilly guy finds his dead dog and vows revenge, and I think he says, I’m gonna drink your bro luck, cranberry sauce, mani, or somebody says that, I don’t know, I just wrote down. All these dumb lines. All the kids are camping now and they’re just talking, and both of the girls are throwing themselves at the hot guy, and then something flies into the fire and they’re like, oh, it’s a dead bunny.

That’s weird. And somebody’s like, oh, this kind of stuff happens all the time in the woods. What? 

Like, what are you talking about? 

Todd: Oh boy. It, but nothing really comes of it. No. Darren looks at it and is like. That’s just not a buddy that’s been clearly been packed away at by a Turkey bee disempowered. 

Craig: Yeah.

They stay there through the night and the next morning Billy wakes up and the hillbilly is standing over him and he is like, that Turkey tried to kill you in the night. Look, there’s Turkey poop on your. Sleeping bag. 

Todd: Okay. Oh my gosh. So then, then they end up in the car. Yeah. And there is this dumbest dialogue sequence I’ve ever, I’ve ever seen in the movie.

And again, you’re right, I’m, I am absolutely certain that they intentionally wrote it that way, but. Yeah. Like Johnny’s going back, what’s going on, Billy? What’s wrong with you? And he’s like, Ugh. 

Clip: So you actually believe that there’s a real killer Turkey on the loose? What a loser. God. Well, I know it sounds crazy, but yeah, I woke up with Turkey douce all over me.

I think he was trying to kill me, but that old hermit saved me. 

Craig: You’re a freak, Billy a freak. But I believe your story. I’m not gonna say anything. 

Clip: Wow. I. Didn’t think that my story would have this much of an effect on you guys. I mean, you’re the cool kids, right? 

Todd: And then Johnny’s girlfriend turns to him is like, Johnny, I’m sorry about what I said last night.

I guess I was a little beaked out. I mean, freaked out Jesus Christ. 

Craig: Oh, I did laugh. They all leave the, the next morning, my favorite scene was. I guess the Turkey has to get around somehow. So he hitchhikes. 

Todd: Yes, he does. 

Craig: And this guy in a sedan pulls over and opens the door for the Turkey and says gas as or grass.

And I had to rewind it to, oh, 

Todd: because 

Craig: the next thing that happened, I was like, wait, wait. What’s happening And I had to rewind it. I know, right? And I had to rewind it. And I just thought that was the funniest thing. Like somebody picking up a hitchhiker saying gas ass or grass. That’s classic. Is it? I, I like, I wanted to write down like, is that a thing?

Like 

Todd: Yeah, it is a thing. It’s a thing from like the seventies. Yeah. Cash grass or ass. My god. Yeah. That’s, that’s, that’s how you pay. Oh my God. 

Craig: I had no idea. And the turkey’s like, well, I’m all outta gas. So ass, I guess. And then the Turkey gets into the car ass first and the guy’s looking at it, he’s like, that’s one tight ass.

And he starts to like. Open his pants and the turkey’s like, that’s not for you or anyone else. He turns around 

Todd: and kills the guy. Turns around with a rifle, suddenly the Turkey has a rifle. 

Craig: Oh, but it’s even better than that. Yes. He turns around with the rifles like. Call your kids or something 

Todd: like that.

He says, do you have a daughter? He is like, I do. He says, call her. And so he calls his daughter and as he’s on the phone with her, honey, I love you all. And then boom, the Turkey shoots him in the head, God, and hops in the driver’s seat and takes off in the car. This was so surreal and I, I actually, this was his trauma.

As this movie gets, yeah, you’re right. This scene was maybe the strongest scene in the whole movie. This scene really accomplished what they were trying to do. It was so bizarre. It was so out there. It was so crude. And shocking and it, you just didn’t know what was gonna happen from moment to moment. And yeah, we should stop talking about it from here on out.

Like the podcast is over this scene. That’s it. That’s the, is the best scene in the film and it never really reaches that again. No, it’s 

Craig: just silly at this point. Like I guess that they’ve all driven from their college to their hometown where they all live and they drop off Ally the slut and. For the second time, make the joke.

Her legs are harder to close than the JonBenet Ramsey case. Like the other girl had dropped that joke before and nobody had laughed at it, and so she just brought it back again and like this time they get it. Okay. 

Clip: Yeah. 

Craig: Oh God. And then Johnny goes home. But hi then Allie is that she invites some guy into her room and they’re.

Banging with all of their clothes on, which I, which I always find quaint. I mean, if you’re in a hurry and you’re at your parents’ house, I, you know, I don’t know. But the Turkey kills the guy that’s banging her and then takes over, and then when she realizes it. That was, oh my God, it was icky. It wasy. That was really icky.

But it’s so ridiculous. It’s so ridiculous that it’s difficult. I mean, yeah, assault is never funny, but this movie is placed in such a ridiculous place that, yeah, it’s just, oh, but the Turkey finishes off and says to her, you just got stuffed. Ugh.

Oh man. And then the Turkey goes over and hangs out with Kristen’s 

Todd: dad, who is the sheriff? This scene I liked. ’cause the gag is, and, and you know if in case you haven’t figured it out yet with the hitchhiker and whatnot, the gag is that they’re willing to just not bat an eye at this Turkey like that.

It’s Turkey. You know, the hitchhiker just pulls over, makes no comment that this thing is a Turkey. It’s just gonna offer him a ride. And so, right, it’s the middle of the night and I guess there’s still a stack of mail on the table. Dad wanders in for no good reason. Decides to go through the mail in the middle of the night, sees that he won something.

I did not understand this at all. 

Craig: I don’t know. 

Todd: And he ends up in a Turkey suit. The doorbell rings and he answers the door in a Turkey suit and he sees the Turkey and the turkey’s disguise is one of those, you know, it’s the glasses with the nose and the mustache on it. 

The 

Todd: Groucho 

Marx 

Todd: glasses. Oh my God.

Yeah. And they have like this with the big nose and the mustache. They have this whole conversation back and forth. The guy’s like, oh, get basically calls him a midget. Yes. At some point. Well, I didn’t know Kristen had a midget friend. Come on in. You want some coffee? And the trigger’s like, oh, okay. And then there’s this long.

Scene. You know, that’s a parody of one of those long, awkward scenes when somebody’s waiting for somebody. Usually it’s, you know, boyfriend waiting for the girlfriend to show up or something and has to sit down with the dad. Right, right. And it’s so surreal and so funny and goes on just a little too long to the point where it is funny.

I like this scene. Actually, this is one of my second favorite scenes in the movie. I think 

Craig: it was kind of funny, and the Turkey more than anything is just bored with the dad and tries to kind of get away. But eventually he kills the dad and then the kids all go to that house. Kristen’s dad’s house and Kristen knocks on the door like, isn’t this your house or your dad’s house?

Why are you knocking on the door? I don’t understand. But anyway, the Turkey answers the door wearing the dad’s face. Yes, and nobody. Including Kristen thinks anything of it. They’re like, she’s like, Hey dad. Like she has to bend down, bend down to knee level. Yeah. It’s just absolutely ridiculous. 

Todd: This is where, yeah, 

Craig: and it’s, it’s, it’s funny.

It is funny. It’s, I get it. I am in on the joke. This part I like, I think it’s. So ridiculous. Yeah. It’s, it’s, it’s funny. Whatever. Yeah. And then they, and then they do the horror movie research montage where they, there’s a very intense 

Todd: reading montage. Yeah. 

Craig: They find 

Todd: an old book. Yeah. Mm-hmm. And the whole thing is that they’ve got, the Turkey has a talisman on him hidden in his feathers that they’ve gotta get off.

But then once they do that, they have to recite some demon. Paragraph backwards. But in order to even learn that Darren has to solve some math equation that was in the book, it, it doesn’t make any sense. Yeah, of course not. It’s just, it’s just a, just parody. It’s like a kind of sloppy parody. Ugh. 

Craig: And then the Turkey shows up.

Yeah, like usually. Usually they would have to translate something from Latin. Yeah. But at some point in this book, it changes from English to mathematical equations. Yeah. To calculus. It’s like I can crack it 

Todd: English to calculus. That’s stupid. Yeah. So you know, the Turkey shows up and I don’t know, Billy puts him in a headlock.

Then they kind of wrestle with it and somebody ends up managing to to yank. Isn’t this where they end up managing to yank the towel? They get the to off and then the turkey’s like, I’m outta here bitches, and it runs off the Turkey just always does that. And, uh, y you know, 

Craig: Johnny and Kristen have a heart to heart that doesn’t have, doesn’t make any difference.

Yeah. And then Darren cracks the math code, which tells them that they have to burn the Turkey at the steak. But Billy is the, the heavyset one is so hungry that he just has to like, leave and wander around until the Turkey tempts him with like an animated. Turkey. He’s like, come eat me, Billy. And it’s like an animated roasted Turkey.

Yeah. And Billy eats the animated roasty, roasted Turkey, and then the killer Turkey bursts out of his chest. 

Clip: Dobble dobble, motherfucker. 

Craig: Now that’s 

Clip: what I call 

Craig: foul play. Okay. And then they all find him and Darren cries over Billy’s body for a while. Yeah. And they’re showing the effects, like, and it looks like they stuffed pantyhose.

Like they’re, it is not, they’re not even trying necessarily to make this look real or good. That’s not the point. 

Todd: Mm-hmm. The 

Craig: point is to be silly and stupid, but Darren cries over Billy. 

Clip: It’s not, even though I’m. Cool kids because of you. Because of you. I wanted to kill you. You’re my best friend. We’ve been good and bad times.

Good and bad times together, Billy. It’s not gonna end like this. There’s gonna be many more good times and we’re not gonna let there be a lot of bad. You’re my best friend. I wanna fucking killed a goddamn Turkey I fucking killed. 

Craig: And there’s an entire original. Song about how they’re best friends, and he’s so sad that the Turkey killed him.

Yeah, it was. I mean, at this point the movie’s almost over and I’m like, thank God. But I found that amusing. Yeah. I found the dreamy musical montage. Amusing. Yeah, that 

Todd: was amusing. And now the Turkey is making a tossed salad in its tent. Why? 

Craig: Yeah, it’s tossing a salad. Tossing a 

Todd: salad. Yeah. And then, um, love salad.

They, they break into the tent and they read a prayer. 

Craig: Well, it, this is hilarious too, because the kids, for some reason, they know that he lives in a teepee Yeah. In the park. And they go and they drive up right next to it. And it’s about, oh, maybe three feet tall and. Then when they go into it, it’s really big.

It’s, it’s, it’s, it’s like one of those tents out of Harry Potter where it’s a little tiny on the outside, and then you go inside and it’s like palatial. It’s hilarious. Yeah. Yeah. I, I found that very funny. That’s 

Todd: true. And then he read, they read the prayer and the trick is like, ah, ah, ah, yeah. And then Darren says, now he’s lost his invincibility power.

This was written by. 12-year-old and then, and then the turkey’s like, no way. I’m getting outta here. And then he runs out between them. But outside is the, is the hillbilly man with the Yeah, with the rifle. Says, not this time, asshole shoots the Turkey, and as he shoots it, the Turkey flies into what he calls a dumpster.

But it’s really just a big trash. A trash can. They’re like, but wait, we were supposed to kill it by burning it. Who knows what this will do? And they walk over to it and they look in, they’re like, well, it surely is dead. And Darren’s like, well, why don’t we go off and watch a movie? That sounds like fun.

Yeah. So 

Craig: they go back to, let’s go back to Kristen’s house and watch a movie. I don’t remember. I feel like the hillbilly said something like that. Turkey killed my dog. One of these days. Maybe you’ll know how I feel. Maybe when your mom or your dad or your best friend gets killed, then you’ll know how I feel.

Because all of these kids, yeah, and they go back to Kristen’s house. Jill, her father’s. Her father’s dead body is still in the house. Yeah. They’re all sitting on the couch together and Billy says like, well, today was pretty rough, but I learned a lot and I make great. I made great friends. 

Oh my God. He’s kind of glad that it happened.

Yeah. He got a girlfriend. 

Todd: I may have lost my parents, but I gained a girlfriend and she goes, g, g girlfriend do do you mean? And then they fall off screen and start making out. 

Craig: They start making out. And maybe I was imagining it, but I’m almost positive I heard a zipper come down. Yeah, probably like they’re, they’re just gonna bang there right in front of Darren.

Yeah. 

Todd: And he’s like, I gotta go pee now. So you know what’s gonna happen to him. Darren goes and pees, then he goes to the bed, to the kitchen, bends over. To look into the refrigerator and then ow. And he turns around and there’s a meat thermometer stuck in his butt. The Turkey is thrown his butt. And the Turkey, by the way, was thrown into, apparently there was radioactive waste inside of this, this trash can ’cause now he’s green and glowing.

Craig: Yeah, right. 

Todd: So he, uh, get knocked Darren to the floor and starts pecking out his heart. Throws his heart across the room. Darren’s dead. Then the others are far, are asleep. They made quick work of this. Let me tell you. They are asleep on the sofa in five minutes. Yes. Oh, Billy is Beck by the way. Billy is becking Darren to heaven, so that’s kind of cute.

There’s a whole sequence of that. That was cute. And Johnny goes into the kitchen, Johnny suddenly gets stabbed. And I wasn’t unc I was very unclear with what was happening here. It took me a while to figure out he was stabbed with one of those electric Turkey hats. Electric carvers, yeah. Yeah. Uhhuh. So, uh, you know, they kind of, um, push away the Turkey and she runs out with Johnny.

He was like, come on, come on. Don’t worry. Hold on, Johnny. You can do it. You can make it. I thought she was gonna take him to the car and try to take him to the hospital. She says. Let’s hide in that shack over there, which was a funny joke. Yeah. So you go into the shack and then she picks up, uh, now you still have that lighter that you had with you.

Yeah. You know where this is going. She gets a can of some aerosol and the Turkey comes in and she blasts it with the three flame thrower, roasting hell, asshole. Johnny dies. Turkey comes back up, she picks up a baseball bat. The Turkey is flaming by the way. Peck on some of your own size and hits him out of the shed and straight into a random pile of sticks set up like a pire that you would burn a witch on.

Yeah, 

Craig: right. 

Todd: That happens to be out. In the middle of the yard 

Craig: and he burns up and he says, I’ll come back. I’ll kill you all. Then it cuts to a family Thanksgiving dinner scene mm-hmm. With a roast Turkey on, on the table. And it’s very nice. And they’re, you know, all thankful and everything. These are people we don’t know.

Todd: Yeah. Some random, 

Craig: and then the roast Turkey jumps up and starts running around and they all scream. And the turkey’s voice says, do I smell sequel? The end and there is a sequel, which they called Thanks Killing three, which I think is really clever. Yeah, I think that’s funny. Like Thanksgiving than Killing Two was lost or something.

I don’t 

Clip: know. Yeah, 

Craig: yeah. Ultimately, like. I feel like I am in on the joke. I get it. I get what they were going for. It’s really not my cup of tea. Yeah. But I, I don’t, I don’t wanna be overly critical about it because how can you criticize something for doing what I really honestly believe it’s set out to do.

Yeah. Just because it’s not my cup of tea doesn’t mean that there, that there’s not gonna be an audience for it. I think that there is an audience for it. I think that there are people who will genuinely. Really have a good time watching this. I can only imagine that that, that this is the type of thing that would be best enjoyed with friends.

Mm. So that you could laugh together and goof around together and there’s no part of this movie that you have to concern yourself with missing. Yeah. Like. You can have a great laugh, talk joke, have a good time. When you come back to it, it’s just still gonna be happening and it’s just gonna be more of the same.

Mm-hmm. You’re not really gonna miss anything. No. So it, it is what it is. Yeah. It’s not my cup of tea. Yeah. But. It’s, you know, for what it is, it’s fine. 

Todd: It’s on tuby, it’s free. You can go check it out anytime you want. 

Craig: Yeah. And it’s only an hour and 10 minutes long. It felt kind of like a long hour and 10 minutes for me.

Yeah. But it is only an hour and 10 minutes long. 

Todd: I, it, it wasn’t that long for me. It really moved. I was really grateful that it was over when it was over, but I never really felt like, oh, I mean, yeah, no, I did feel, ugh, what am I watching? But ultimately it had its moments. I expected this to be a trauma type movie.

Like I said, there are two or three spots in here where it reaches that level of trauma, like brilliance. It somehow gets that secret sauce right for a few seams. And so, you know, good for them for managing to do that, for this, you know, shot on video thing that a bunch of friends got together and do.

Which you’re absolutely right is exactly like what I did in college. And it looks like it. And it feels like it. 

Craig: Yeah, it does. 

Todd: Uhhuh. So that’s fun. And you know, we’ve talked about this before. We like the earnestness and of this, these kind of movies too. Absolutely. We love it. You know, and, and you know what, I think as we go into the age of ai.

Anyone can just type shit in and you get something that looks amazing and right, but is probably going to be soulless, right? It’s gonna be its own thing. It’s gonna be its own aesthetic. I have a feeling we’re gonna gravitate. Towards this kind of stuff more and more, yeah, this stuff that was clearly put together by real people who had ideas and maybe that wasn’t the most polished and maybe the, you know, it was a little off and maybe it just has a very limited audience and doesn’t really connect with the mass population.

I think this kind of movie is gonna be valued and treasured a lot more as the. Decades go on. So, 

Craig: yeah. 

Todd: And clearly, I mean, it must be making some money for these guys. It must be Well, and it’s gimmicky GI gimmick, 

Craig: gimmicks are smart. Yeah, it works. Yeah. It really, you know when, when people are looking for Thanksgiving horror movies, they are going to come across than killing.

Yeah. 

Todd: Because there aren’t many out there. It’s, 

Craig: it’s, it’s smart 

Todd: and it’s well named. Right. And it’s goofy. Yeah. Yeah. And I would, I would buy this puppet. If this puppet was, was sold in a store, I would actually buy it. I think it’s cool. It’s funny. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Well, happy Thanksgiving to you guys, as we always say this time of year.

We are so grateful for all of you for continuing to tune into us after this. For these 10 years, I think, did we just miss our 10 year anniversary? Did we just breeze right through it? Yeah, we 

Craig: did for sure. Yeah. I think it was in October. 

Todd: It was, but uh, might’ve even been September. But, but you know, that’s, that’s cool.

We, we, we tend to go to the episode count anyway, and we’re fast approaching 500, so we’ve got something to celebrate. Wow. I mean, we just celebrate the fact that you guys are out there listening to us and that you give us feedback and that you reach out to us wherever we are online. On, whether it’s at our website or whether it’s on Facebook or YouTube, we even get messages through Instagram.

It’s really quite cool. We love that. We also love our patrons who are, yeah, so supportive of us, who actually give us money. Chat with us behind the scenes. We really have a nice little family, um, that we’ve cultivated through this podcast, and we’re really grateful. You know, again, it’s just like watching a Thanksgiving horror movie with you guys is is like, uh, visiting with family in our own little way with our own little family, our horror family.

Oh, by the way, we’re coming up on Christmas time. That means four weeks, and there are a hell of a lot more holiday themed horror movies than there are Thanksgiving. So that’s true. It is not too late. Because we haven’t even started yet. No, it is not too late for you to start assembling a list for us. So let us know what you’d like to hear, and uh, we will assemble a cool slate of films for you coming up in December.

Until next time, I’m Todd. And I’m Craig with Two Guys and a Chainsaw.