Horror

Thanksgiving has regularly been given the short end of the horror stick. While other holidays are abounding with horrific takes on annual traditions, Thanksgiving offerings—despite the innate horror of both its origins and practices (family dinner…)— remain sparse. There’s the perennial slasher Blood Rage, and last year’s Thanksgiving was refreshingly fun. But other than some cryptic indies and made-for-television shorts, Thanksgiving doesn’t yield the horror buffet something like, say, Christmas does. Every year, the lists of horror watches are the same, and I pretty much skip straight to Black Christmas on Thanksgiving night. Until I rediscovered Madman. I rewatched it for the messy, endearing slasher nonsense, and wouldn’t you know? Madman is technically a Thanksgiving horror movie. Better still, the film is now streaming for free.