The world needs more Thanksgiving-themed horror movies. It doesn’t necessarily need more fake Amityville movies. So, I guess it’s like a monkey’s paw kind of thing to find something like Amityville Turkey Day wallowing in the depths of Tubi.
A group of filmmakers arrive at a house in Amityville to shoot a movie about a cannibal therapist who lived in the actual home. During filming, a killer turkey with a foul mouth (see what I did there?) arrives on the scene and begins bumping off members of the cast and crew.
Amityville Turkey Day starts off with a shit load of backstory and testimonials filmed by people on their phones. It took me a while to realize this was actually a sequel to something. I did some digging and learned it follows a film called Amityville Thanksgiving. I haven’t seen that one but judging from Amityville Turkey Day I’m surprised anyone was asking for seconds.
You know, it’s funny. At the start of this review I thought there was only one Thanksgiving related Amityville movie. Now I know there are two. I’m sure they will probably have another one in production by the time I finish writing this.
Anyway, those opening scenes are tedious and get the movie off to a rough start. The only moments where it threatens to come to life is during the scenes with the turkey. Of course, it’s a blatant rip-off of Thankskilling, but it’s like I always say, if you’ve got to steal from somewhere, steal from the best. I guess it was just too much to ask that the turkey’s kills be memorable or that its wisecracks be funny. (Sometimes they don’t even make sense.)
The film-within-a-film scenes are pretty painful, but not as painful as the shit with the crew members bitching and arguing with each other. The unintentional humor isn’t funny, and the intentional shit is even worse (there’s a Harvey Weinstein joke). All in all, Amityville Turkey Day is truly a turkey, and that’s no jive.
AKA: Amityville Thanksgiving 2.
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