# Thanksgiving-themed horror, fantasy, or sci-fi? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2016, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-themed-horror-fantasy-or-sci-fi/771780 "2016-11-13T07:23:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-themed-horror-fantasy-or-sci-fi/771780/1 "2016-11-13T07:23:04Z")
**BTVS** has an awesome Thanksgiving episode called “Pangs.” \*\*Scream Queens \*\*did a Thanksgiving episode last year called “Ghost Stories.” I think **Charmed** and \*\*the Vampire Diaries \*\*had Thanksgiving episodes too. And I own a horror short story collection called Haunted Holidays that includes a Thanksgiving tale. But what else is there out there in book, movie, or TV episode form that is horror, fantasy and/or sci-fi AND related to Thanksgiving? Surely there’s more! ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-themed-horror-fantasy-or-sci-fi/771780/2 "2016-11-13T07:46:41Z")
One episode of Star Trek—“Charlie X,” IIRC—took place around Thanksgiving. A minor point, but there were turkeys involved. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-themed-horror-fantasy-or-sci-fi/771780/3 "2016-11-13T08:37:03Z")
There’s the hilariously bad _Thankskilling_ , of course. And, of course,\* Addams Family Values \*has the greatest Thanksgiving Summer Camp play…“Eat Me!” ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-themed-horror-fantasy-or-sci-fi/771780/4 "2016-11-18T05:04:18Z")
Damn, it’s a shame there aren’t more. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-themed-horror-fantasy-or-sci-fi/771780/5 "2016-11-18T05:24:13Z")
It doesn’t sell internationally, and there isn’t really a clear theme to hang a story on. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-themed-horror-fantasy-or-sci-fi/771780/6 "2016-11-18T07:57:27Z")
Well, there’s _The Facts of Life Reunion._ If the idea of sitting through that doesn’t fill you with sheer horror, I don’t know what would. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-themed-horror-fantasy-or-sci-fi/771780/7 "2016-11-18T08:14:42Z")
There’s always [this…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0YDYSUBHaI) ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-themed-horror-fantasy-or-sci-fi/771780/8 "2016-11-18T15:18:00Z")
While meant as comedy, the WKRP Thanksgiving show where they drop turkeys out of planes has always struck me as being intensely horrifying for the spectators when I visualize the actual details of what they describe happening. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-themed-horror-fantasy-or-sci-fi/771780/9 "2016-11-18T15:31:44Z")
_Buffy the Vampire Slayer_’s Thanksgiving episode was called “Pangs.” “Ritual sacrifice with pie.” To me, _Northern Exposure_ is on the edge of fantasy. The magical town of Cicely had a very special way of celebrating Thanksgiving–[discussed at the AVclub in 2010](http://www.avclub.com/article/inorthern-exposurei-thanksgiving-47892). ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-themed-horror-fantasy-or-sci-fi/771780/10 "2016-11-18T23:23:18Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_’s Thanksgiving episode was called “Pangs.” “Ritual sacrifice with pie.”. Which I mentioned in the first line of the first post… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-themed-horror-fantasy-or-sci-fi/771780/11 "2016-11-18T23:45:05Z")
The Wiz (the movie) takes place on Thanksgiving (though only the opening scenes really use that). ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-themed-horror-fantasy-or-sci-fi/771780/12 "2016-11-19T03:29:42Z")
**Miracle on 34th Street** begins on Thanksgiving. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-themed-horror-fantasy-or-sci-fi/771780/13 "2016-11-19T03:39:36Z")
Because I watched it every Thanksgiving for years, I will always associate King Kong with Thanksgiving. I started a thread about it many moons ago [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=586569).