‘Thanksgiving’ Director Eli Roth on His ‘Morality Tale’ of a Slasher Film.

‘Thanksgiving’ Director Eli Roth on His ‘Morality Tale’ of a Slasher Film: ‘If Someone Gets Killed, Who’s Going to Take Care of the Cat?’.

Originally conceived as a phony, all-killer-no-filler trailer to be sandwiched between “Planet Terror” and “Death Proof” in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 exploitation tribute double feature “Grindhouse,” Eli Roth’s “Thanksgiving” was never meant to be a real movie. The gory, gritty clip packs more eye-popping slasher gags into its three minutes than it does plot points — all by Roth’s design, tied together with little more than the connective tissue of the eponymous holiday. Sixteen years later, Roth and his co-writer Jeff Rendell have expanded what was at the time little more than B-movie leftovers into a holiday horror feast.

No longer relying on the ephemera of “Grindhouse’s” bygone era of filmmaking, Roth and Rendell have transformed their cheeky holiday murder-fest into a thoughtful thriller in the vein of the “Scream” films, seasoned with a healthy dose of inspiration from the slashers that they watched growing up in Massachusetts, where “Thanksgiving” is appropriately set. Detailing the project’s journey from an irreverent, go-for-broke short to a bloody cinematic buffet, Roth spoke to Variety about applying two decades of filmmaking knowledge — and a lifelong love for the genre — to create a film he calls a “morality tale” that also “shows the kids how it’s done” while evoking everything from “Halloween” to “Mute Witness” to “E.T..”

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