Based on his fake trailer from the Grindhouse Double Feature (2007), Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving served up a heaping helping of gory slasher fun in theaters ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Today, Roth’s holiday slasher carves its way onto PVOD! Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive “Behind the Screams” featurette to celebrate the surprise home release.

Thanksgiving is now available in theaters and to buy or rent on PVOD, offering more ways to enjoy holiday horror this season.

Check out the exclusive featurette below, where Roth and co-writer Jeff Rendell track their friendship and the road to creating the original new slasher.

In Thanksgiving, “After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.”

The cast for the feature length slasher movie includes Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Jalen Thomas Brooks (“Walker”), Milo Manheim (Zombies), Nell Verlaque (“Big Shot”), Gina Gershon (“Chucky”), Tim Dillon and Rick Hoffman (Hostel).

Roth wrote the script with Jeff Rendell. Roger Birnbaum and Eli Roth produced.

I wrote of the slasher in my review, “Like curating the perfect holiday feast, Roth orchestrates a vicious, thrilling, and raucously entertaining slasher with a showstopper finale. It makes for a satiating feast for the horror fan this time of year, and it’s all but sure to become a new holiday horror classic.”

Thanksgiving received rave reviews from critics and audiences and earned $30 million globally in its first two weeks of release with an impressive second week hold at -31%.

For even more on the behind the scenes fun of bringing this original slasher to life on screen, Roth broke down John Carver’s design and more in a recent interview with Bloody Disgusting.

You’ll want to get caught up if you haven’t seen Thanksgiving yet; John Carver will officially be back to terrorize the holiday in the officially greenlit sequel set for 2025.