Thankskilling (2008)

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,