Eli Roth wants Thanksgiving to launch a holiday horror franchise

Many of us have our Thanksgiving plans all lined up, but Eli Roth has some ideas of his own – for Thanksgiving, that is. If all goes as planned and his upcoming movie can scare the stuffing out of us, he hopes to keep coming home for the holidays…in a body bag.

Speaking with ComicBook.com, Eli Roth said he can see Thanksgiving bringing about a whole calendar of holiday horror movies. “We didn’t really think too much beyond this movie, but as we were shooting, you start joking around going, ‘Oh yeah, we could do a movie set there, we could do this, we could do that. The Thanksgivingverse’…I mean, it’s completely up to the fans. But we had such a great time making it and the more you think about it, the more ideas you get…We were like, we don’t want to stop. It was one of those shoots. It was so fast, when the shoot ended, we were really sad it was over. We thought, ‘Okay, how can we get back to this?’ So if the movie does well, I’d love to continue it.”

Of course, Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving plans harken back to the heyday of the slasher when it seemed like nearly every holiday – major or not – got its own cheapo slice-and-dice, including New Year’s Evil, My Bloody Valentine, April Fool’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Silent Night, Deadly Night, with Christmas being an annual horror favorite…Heck, even Thanksgiving got some love/blood with 1987’s Blood Rage – but we don’t see that one getting its own mobile game!

Thanksgiving has been in some form of development since Eli Roth first directed the faux trailer for 2007’s Grindhouse. To me, this was the best of the bunch (with all due respect to Rob Zombie’s Werewolf Women of the SS) and was my pick for the one that should actually get made into a movie. Robert Rodriguez edged it out with Machete – and some may also cite Hobo with a Shotgun, but that had a limited Grindhouse attachment – but reviews thus far carve up Thanksgiving as the best of the lot.

If Eli Roth actually expands his holiday horror universe after Thanksgiving, which would you like to see him take on? Let us know below!