Could Thanksgiving be this generation's SCREAM?

Eli Roth is hoping Thanksgiving can have a similar impact on this generation that Scream had on him in the 1990s.

Scream is credited with revitalising the slasher movie genre and has gone on to become one of the most beloved and lucrative horror franchises in history.

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Thanksgiving, meanwhile, is a new slasher written and directed by Roth.

The official premise reads:

"After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious serial killer, known only as John Carver, comes to Plymouth, Massachusetts, with the intention of creating a Thanksgiving carving board out of the town's inhabitants."

It stars Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, and Gina Gershon.

The movie is actually based on a fake trailer that Roth made for 2007's Grindhouse. It proved so popular that he eventually decided to develop a real movie based upon it.

"We had such high standards and high expectations for the movie," Roth told SFX Magazine.

"We wanted to make a great modern slasher film. I remember the first time I saw Scream in the theatre and you just go, ‘Holy shit. That was amazing!’ That’s what I want, to do that for the next generation."

Roth also explained why it was necessary to trump what people saw in the original fake trailer.

"Every time you do one of those kills that you shot before, it has to be as good or better, because otherwise, what’s the point?" he continued.

"I don’t want people to watch and go, 'It’s better in the trailer.' So if you couldn’t top what we did in the trailer, you had to do something different. Part of the fun was it freed us up to come up with all-new kills."

Thanksgiving trailer