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Into the Dark: Pilgrim (2019)
Blumhouse’s Into the Dark series produced a TV movie for Hulu, which features a complex home invasion plot on the day that your house is incredibly full of guests. Why? To remember to be thankful for your life, of course.
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Intensity (1997)
Another TV movie, Intensity stars John C. McGinley (Office Space) as a serial killer who torments a family after they’ve gathered in the Pacific Northwest for the holiday.
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Kristy (2014)
Kristy is like if The Holdovers was a horror flick. After most of her dorm goes home for the holidays, a university student (played by Hillbilly Elegy‘s Haley Bennett) is left alone—and terrorized by an online cult obsessed with murder.
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Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
Filmed a year before The Blair Witch Project, the found-footage TV film Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County features a documentary crew seeking to uncover how the McPherson family disappeared on Thanksgiving. Spoiler alert: aliens had something to do with it.
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Boogeyman (2005)
Following a Thanksgiving trip with his girlfriend, 7th Heaven‘s Barry Watson receives a vision from his mother warning him to come back home. When he arrives, he finds his mother dead and a supernatural entity plaguing the local psych ward. Despite little critical acclaim, Boogeyman spawned two sequels.
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Black Friday (2021)
When zombie-like shoppers stampede into a toy store on Black Friday, employees are forced to batten down the hatches. Can they survive the night?
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The Oath (2018)
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Blood Rage (1987)
Filming in Jacksonville, Florida, Blood Rage is about as pure a B-movie as 80s slasher films can get. Blood oozes like ketchup, the killer wields a giant machete, and the dialogue is laugh-out-loud awful. It’s probably the most fun you’ll have all weekend.
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ThanksKilling 3 (2012)
Finally, a killer turkey! Was it really that hard, folks? Out for revenge on the day that humanity consumes untold numbers of the celebratory bird, an evil turkey (who talks, by the way!) carves up some holiday mayhem in not one but three ThanksKilling movies.
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Thanksgiving (2023)
The award for “Best Thanksgiving Horror Movie” goes to Eli Roth‘s Thanksgiving. You could convince me that the Cabin Fever director created the holiday-themed slasher just to win such a prestigious title. Naturally, it features a serial killer in a Johnny Carver mask who terrorizes a a small town in Massachusetts on the big day. Michael Myers, you’ve got yourself some competition.
