2012 Directed by Jordan Downey
Fowl-mouthed villain Turkie carves through the likes of a rapping grandma, a mindless puppet, a wig-wearing inventor, a bisexual space worm, and their equally ridiculous friends on his quest to recover the last copy of "ThanksKilling 2". Also known as "Turkeys, In, Space!".
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Today is Turkie’s Day and I’m just over here cooking, drinking before noon, and watching this thanksgiving disaster in his honor.
If you can get past the godawful first 30 minutes the you’re treated to a godawful but delightful drug-induced psychedelic nightmare techno puppet fever dream of a total train wreck full of ass vortexes and I love it. I have absolutely nothing else I can say to defend my rating for this so I’ll just say
Happy Turkie Day, bitches!!
testing the fuck outta my rule that a movie can never be too stupid or have too many shitty puppets
Only one 5-star review for this movie?!! Well, ALLOW ME to fix that because, UM, this movie is a craptacular trashterpiece of the highest caliber! This is my new yearly tradition and I’m honestly having a hard time understanding how I made it this far in life without this movie. THIS IS ALL THE BANANAS, PEOPLE!! EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
My favorite psychotic killer turkey is back! This time around, Turkie is on a killing spree while trying to save the very last copy of Thankskilling 2, a movie that was so incredibly bad that every other existing copy has been destroyed. That’s also the reason this second film has a “3” in the title. I just don’t even know where…
"That's made up." - my wife when I explained this film to her.
CW: Chainsaw Penis
-Scavenger Hunt #44 (Nov. '18): boxd.it/27Rig
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This film posits a world where ThanksKilling 2 was filmed, in space, and was so horrible that it was destroyed except for one copy. Turkie the Turkey wants it back and will do anything to get it. This film is pure insanity, not the way people will say that about Nicholas Refn or Panos films, I mean this is a mostly puppet based Thanksgiving themed adult science fiction/fantasy epic.
Puppets, talking worms, robot squid-faces, machines with attitudes, rapping rubber grandmas, video game fights, anal vortexes, talking rats,…
Perverse muppets on crack!
I have never seen a film quite like this before! Nobody in their right mind sets out to purposely make a bad film but this was totally premeditated!
As bad as it was I couldn't look away and I detested myself for it! Nothing I could say could accurately describe its genuine AWFULLNESS! But I'll tell you what if you like to sit around and trash films with your friends this is definitely the film for you!
All I know is that I'd play this in a heartbeat for those dingleberries that overstay their welcome long after the dinner has been served and the last touchdown has been made!
Final Word: Serve this Turkey up and your guests will scatter like cockroaches when the light comes on!
"Hahahahah.... Never gets old." -Rhonda,
Well this is just silly and profane and I still love it.
Thankskilling 3 is rated a 1.7 on letterboxd by people that clearly have had their hearts cut out of their chests by a chainsaw penis... it's the only explanation I can think of because this movie rules. The script is childish in a way that I find amusing and creative, the puppetry is bizarre and low-key pretty good, and the weird dub-step soundtrack makes me laugh. The premise is ridiculous and I love that a low budget film went meta in a way that didn't annoy me. I think that's what impresses me about the film... it is so confident about how good it is despite being ridiculous.
Not for everyone but definitely for me!
I give both this and the original ThanksKilling half-a-star. But if ThanksKilling 3 is the baseline for all movies, then the original deserves at least three stars. Seriously, the first may be an awful movie, but there's a sort of innocent simplicity about it, and it can be fun to mock. ThanksKilling 3, on the other hand, is a genuine monstrosity, a soul-sucking void where happiness goes to die. It is relentlessly crude, smug, mean-spirited, witless, and joyless. I'm fairly certain I would fail to understand any of director Jordan Downey's thought processes, but I still don't know why he thought it was a good idea to go from "evil turkey kills college kids" to "evil turkey seeks last remaining…
Listen there is nothing you can say to me that will convince me this isn’t a brilliant piece of cinematic art.
"Hahahahah.... Never gets old." -Rhonda,
I love Greg Garbage!
This is an absurdist piece of crap that for whatever reason I find to be fairly brilliant. I have no idea how they came up with this story but it is fascinating and bizarre. The puppet work is pretty fun and the debauchery is beautiful. I like that it's not just a story but a fully realized, dumb as shit, fantasy world that one can play around in for a little while.
It's horror and a heartwarming Thanksgiving tale.... enjoy!
Fuck everything about this movie and fuck the fuckers who put the time into fashioning such an excruciating film experience. I don't even use the half-star rating on Letterboxd, but I'm making an exception for this garbage. Gotta be the only movie in existence about which it could be said, "The best part was when the turkey spread that guy's blood on some toast and then exclaimed, 'HE'S TOAST!'"
