Simply A Masterpiece

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Well, I'd saved this title on Netflix streaming to show the title to a friend of mine. I'd totally forgot about it until one night, she and I were looking at titles in my que and there it was flashing before her eyes. She told me to stop and let me see what's that about. So we both decided to watch this... At first I made a joke about this surely must be a Bob Guccioni (Penthouse Publisher - sp?) production. Then Turkie made his appearance... In as little as a line, my friend grabbed my arm and said, "Did that turkey just cuss?" From then on there we were dying of laughter. It took us about 3 1/2 hours to watch the movie as we kept rewinding to be sure we'd seen what we saw. There is so much silliness in this movie; it couldn't be true. We'd recommended it to a few of our horrible movie friends. All of are of the same conclusion... It's the best bad movie of all time.

Yes, I went into this willingly, KNOWING it would be a terrible movie. I just did not know it would be THE worst me and my sister have ever seen! I mean that in a good way, to a certain degree, as well. We make a goal to seek out terrible movies, because you get The best lines out of them. We watched ThanksKilling the night before Thanksgiving this year, and we just...we use the lines. The horrible, tacky lines, and laugh maniacally about it.I'm sitting in my office now, laughing about the terrible lines. I LOVED the turkey's voice, he had the best lines ever and best voice to match it. I just have to know why people signed up to do this, because it kind of made my year. Well...maybe not that but, it has certainly left me with some good lines & laughs.

This ultra-super-duper-excessively cheap film is something you just need to see to appreciate. It starts a cheesy looking turkey puppet who goes on a murderous rampage--all during which he makes cheesy and occasionally funny comments. It also features the puppet having sex with a teen as well as one funny scene where he sits and has coffee with an off-duty cop and a song montage that made my brain hurt.Considering that the folks who made "ThanksKilling" meant to make a bad film and had almost no budget whatsoever, it's a hard film to review. Yes, it is bad--but they knew they were making a bad movie when they made it and there is no attempt to make anything other than a very stupid film. So, if you do watch it, you should be the sort of person who likes terrible films AND you have a high tolerance for the vulgarity and deliberately gratuitous nudity. As for the nudity, I normally don't want it in films, but it was rather funny how they used it--as a way of making fun of the gratuitous nature of slasher films. As for the language, it's very, very crude and dumb...but again, that IS what they were looking for! This is NOT a film to show your mother or Father Jenkins (unless your mother or Father Jenkins are sociopathic murderers).Impossible to really rate. See it and you'll see why. And, I really have no idea if I liked it or not!

D+ For this movie I will not delve into its cinematographer, its special effects, or its director, absolutely nothing. Why you ask, because all of the aforementioned things are completely wretched in this movie. The acting sucks ass, the writing is even worse, making the whole film feel like a third-grader's after school project. It is in all fairness one of the worst movies of all time. The only worthwhile aspect of the whole movie is quite obviously the turkey, voiced by Jordan Downey, the director. Its one liners are amusing, and for that alone I actually enjoyed a few scenes. I've seen so many obscure horror flicks and have watched the likes of killer crocodiles, killer alligators (there is a difference you know), komodo dragons, mutated mosquitoes, bees, bioengineered rattlesnake/cobra hybrid, anacondas, sharks, killer whales, eh, the list is endless, but the turkey manages to be noteworthy. It's kind of like a permanent scar that at first bugs you and then you just get use to it.As a horror parody, the film is decently funny. The problem is every second the turkey isn't on screen it gives one a headache. To make things worse, as short as the film is, they actually draw out the character relationships. I guess the co-eds they hired to do it wanted more screen time. If you do dare to watch this, please, have a few beers before doing so to avoid putting the barrel of a shotgun in your mouth.And oh yeah, kudos to Wanda Lust with the cuddly knockers in the opening scene. I mean geez the movie literally starts off with an extreme close-up of her nipple before the camera zooms out. She will never live this down.