‘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 […]