Thanksgiving 2 (2025): The Feast Returns, With Blood on the Menu

“Thanksgiving 2 proves that sometimes the scariest part of the holiday isn’t what’s on your plate—but who’s carving it.” 

Sharpen your carving knives—and your nerves. Thanksgiving 2 (2025) slices its way back onto the screen, serving up a bloody buffet of horror, dark humor, and satirical jabs at America’s favorite harvest holiday. Following the cult success of the first film, director Eli Roth returns to ensure this Thanksgiving is one audiences will never forget—or survive.

Picking up a year after the grisly events in Plymouth, Thanksgiving 2 finds the small town still reeling from the massacre carried out by the vengeful pilgrim killer known as John Carver. While townsfolk attempt to rebuild and tourists flock to the historic site for a morbid thrill, sinister forces stir once more. As Thanksgiving approaches, a series of grotesque murders signal that Carver—or perhaps a copycat—is back for seconds.

Eli Roth leans into the holiday horror aesthetic with gleeful abandon. The film is packed with inventive kills that turn everyday Thanksgiving traditions into instruments of terror: turkey basters become weapons, cranberry sauce flows like blood, and elaborate floats in the Thanksgiving parade conceal deadly traps. The cinematography cleverly juxtaposes cozy autumn warmth with scenes of sheer brutality, creating a jarring and deliciously twisted atmosphere.

The cast brings back familiar faces alongside new victims and potential suspects, keeping audiences guessing who will survive the holiday feast. Amidst the gore, the film maintains Roth’s trademark satirical edge, skewering American consumerism, performative patriotism, and the dark underbelly lurking beneath cheerful traditions.

By its final, shocking twist, Thanksgiving 2 cements itself as a worthy slasher sequel that both honors and subverts the genre. It’s a rollercoaster of screams and laughs—a deliciously depraved reminder that sometimes the things we’re most thankful for… come with a price.