Joe LaRue | Thanksgiving / 2007

the metaphors turn real

by Douglas Messerli

 

Neal Utterback (screenplay), Joe LaRue (director) Thanksgiving / 2007 [8 minutes]

 

I was thinking about posting this movie for Thanksgiving weekend, but upon watching it again, I don’t feel it would be much appreciated by the gay community. This is a very dark absurdist comedy is a little bit too vengeful, for my taste, for cheating boyfriends and young men on the prowl for meat during the holiday weekend.

     Tom’s boyfriend (Joe LaRue) is heading out of town and wishes Tom (Neal Utterback) would join him. But Tom is determined to stay home, prowling the internet for beautiful men with whom he might hook up. He thinks he might have found him in Tucker (aka Hungryforuu) (Vincent De Paul) who advertises himself as 6’2 and a 9 inch uncut cock.

     Drooling over the picture, Tom quickly makes a date. Who could resist leaving the leftovers in the fridge when you can have such a piece of real meat. And when he does meet up with Tucker, he finds the real individual to be even more beautiful than the internet photo, and soon after discovers that actually the man has lied “down” on the internet site: he’s 10 inches of uncut cock.

     Tom is suddenly willing to do almost anything with this hunk, but soon finds himself in a rather unpleasant bondage situation, and not too much later discovers that he himself, described now as Tucker’s “little piggie,” is to become Tucker’s Thanksgiving dinner: “Can’t take it? Sorry, I don’t want to do this. Really, but sometimes a hunger gets so much…”

     As Tucker drags Tom off to his bedroom…or is it his kitchen?...we hear the sound of a chainsaw buzzing. For his transgressions, Tom must evidently suffer a kind of cannibal feast.

     All of this dark film plays out to the lighter strains of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.

 

Los Angeles, November 12, 2026

Reprinted from My Queer Cinema blog (November 2026).