Who else will watch King Kong on Thanksgiving?

[Gillfan]

Growing up in NJ we watched King Kong and Mighty Joe Young every year after Thanksgiving dinner.
Now we watch it on DVD. Anybody else have the same tradition?

[horrorhunter]

I will.

I taped King Kong, Son Of Kong, and Mighty Joe Young, when they were shown on AMC's Monsterfest in 2000 and burned it to disc a few years ago. I also have them on factory DVDs, but after Thanksgiving dinner I plan to put in the Monsterfest disc and let 'er rip. 

BTW, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on UMA.

[Mord]

 My holiday tradition was the Twilight Zone marathons local T.V. stations used to have. Maybe it's just L.A. stations, though.

[Flower]

"Miracle on 34th Street" was always shown on Thanksgiving Day in New York.  I think that it was on WNEW Channel 5.

[Gory Glenn]

My holiday tradition was the Twilight Zone marathons local T.V. stations used to have. Maybe it's just L.A. stations, though.

Yup, same here.

[Monsters For Sale]

Funny, I seem to remember the big movie featured on TV every Thanksgiving was "The Wizard of Oz".

Am I wrong?

[Monsters For Sale]

OK, since this thread was started...

Are there any really good horror/sci-fi pictures that use Thanksgiving as a central theme or backdrop?

I can't think of any right off the bat.  Lots of Halloween and Christmas slashers and the wrap-around story for "The Time Machine" is New Year's - but nothing for Thanksgiving comes to mind.

Wish I had a list of appropriate movies for this holiday.

Anyone...?

[The Red Death 30]

Thankskilling

[horrorhunter]

Danni's Hard Drive showed a festive holiday extravaganza called Spanksgiving with several sequels a few years back. 



OOps! Wrong genre. 

[Monsters For Sale]

Valentines' Day, Mother's day, etc. have bloody movies.  Groundhog Day has a guy stuck in time, living the same day over and over to the point he tries repeatedly to end it by killing himself.

I suppose a good appropriate movie for Arbor Day would be "From Hell IT Came".

Someone needs to make a really creepy Thanksgiving film that is about something other than having to be with relatives you can't stand.

[Mike Scott]

Someone needs to make a really creepy Thanksgiving film

There's always THE GIANT CLAW.

[Monsters For Sale]

There's always THE GIANT CLAW.

Now THAT is a creepy bird.

[Count_Zirock]

It was "March of the Wooden Soldiers" early Thanksgiving Day, then the Macy's Parade, then the giant apes, and "Wizard of Oz" started at 8pm, I think. Black Friday was the Godzilla movie marathon. That was a tradition in the '70s that was hardwired into you if you lived in the NY/NJ/CT tristate area. In the '90s, it was the MST3K Turkey Day marathon on Comedy Central.

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[Monsters For Sale]

I don't associate Kong with Thanksgiving at all.

Kong was often shown Saturday mornings in the 50's, when I was a kid.  I was a typical rug rat, on the floor in front of the TV watching 30's movies of all kinds - Until I got old enough to go to the local theater's Saturday Kids' Matinee.

After that, Saturday was 50's sci-fi day.  (Heaven.)

[jimm]

Same here don't recall Kong on... Then again it's NFL all day in these parts