Addison Rae and Patrick Dempsey Face a Holiday-Themed Serial Killer in Gruesome “Thanksgiving” Trailer

'Thanksgiving,' which originated as a faux trailer filmmaker Eli Roth created for the 2007 double feauture 'Grindhouse,' releases in theaters Nov. 17

Addison Rae and Patrick Dempsey are facing down a serial killer dressed as a pilgrim in a new holiday-themed slasher.

On Wednesday, Tristar Pictures released the official trailer for director Eli Roth's new movie Thanksgiving, a long-awaited horror film based on a faux trailer Roth, 51, created that ran in theaters during the 2007 Robert Rodriguez-Quentin Tarantino double feature Grindhouse.

The new trailer meets citizens of Plymouth, Massachusetts and Nell Verlaque's character on Thanksgiving as she recounts the events of a deadly Black Friday incident at a local department store. Meanwhile, Dempsey's sheriff character asks a colleague to "show some enthusiasm" for the holiday, before the movie's killer breaks into a diner's kitchen and murders an employee.

As police locate a body atop the department store where a past riot happened, a group of teenagers are tagged in an Instagram post featuring a table set for Thanksgiving dinner by an account named "therealjohncarver" — the same name as John Carver, the first governor of Massachusetts' 17th century Plymouth colony.

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As the murders continue, the police note that the killer appears to be using holiday-inspired weapons — corn on the cob holders and an oven are utilized toward deadly means — to commit the killings.

"After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the holiday," an official synopsis for the movie reads. "Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan."

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"Will the town uncover the killer and survive the holidays…or become guests at his twisted holiday dinner table?" the synopsis adds.

Roth told CinemaBlend back in 2010 that he intended to flesh out the original fake trailer, which also featured a killer pilgrim, into a feature-length film. In 2016, he told fans in a Reddit Ask Me Anything thread that he still needed "to put some more work into it so the film lives up to the trailer."

Roth, known for the horror favorites Cabin Fever and Hostel, conceived the story with screenwriter and friend Jeff Rendell, the killer pilgrim from Thanksgiving's original fake trailer. Aside from Rae, Dempsey and Verlaque, the movie also stars Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Rick Hoffman and Gina Gershon.

Thanksgiving hacks its way into theaters Nov. 17.

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