A serial killer starts taking out one-by-one people who participated in a Black Friday sales tragedy the previous year.
A tragicomedy… well… not for the whole family. The opening sequence establishes the caricature of American societal crowds – the type of society that values toasters more than human lives. From Black Friday to Christmas offers to pandemic times to whatever opportunity companies find to trick you with alleged offers of things you never needed or wanted, the moment we give in, we become victims. Maybe not of vicious revengers, but most certainly of the ones who grab our money.
Back to the Revenger and Thanksgiving, Eli Roth made a funny horror about a small American town (that gave birth to the homonymous holiday) where people overestimate their abilities and themselves with a false sense of security. In this way, the celebration of Thanksgiving turns into a bloodbath of people you couldn’t care less. Everyone is indifferent, so when they die, you enjoy it. There is nothing innovative or original about it. Therefore, gather your mates or chill by yourself and enjoy this whodunit enjoyable yet forgettable and mindless Thanksgiving horror where everyone dies in the most horrible manner.
Thanksgiving is about “celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year.” Like every other holiday, we have commercialised it, depreciated it, and monetised it cheaply. While none of these justifies the lunacy behind the film, films like that portray our lack of values, the disgusting use of social media and its users, and the dissonance within ourselves, our societies, our countries, and our world. In a sentence, we have failed to find that peace as much as the film has failed to provide a meaningful sense.
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