10 Recent Movies NOBODY Expected To Be Good

It's fair to say that most fans of Eli Roth's 2007 fake trailer for Thanksgiving - released as part of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse double bill project - had long given up hope of the planned full feature ever getting made, let alone actually turning out well.

Roth ended up quietly shooting the film earlier this year, before it was marketed on a muted wave of anticipation, and TriStar Pictures ultimately decided to hold reviews until just two days before release. No good signs here.

And on top of all this, Roth is a maddeningly inconsistent filmmaker with as many duds to his name as hits.

But Thanksgiving was ultimately almost exactly the movie it needed to be - a giddily self-aware slice of well-made schlock which turned in precisely the brutal gore, black comedy, and seasonal satire that original trailer promised 16 damn years ago.

It would've surprised nobody if Roth's latest was a pure Thanksgiving turkey (sorry), but he evidently understood the assignment and delivered accordingly.