A small town mayor enacts an unconventional new law, during a season of gratitude, while a reporter endangers her life, when superseding police in stopping a demented individual's gruesome backlash.

After Herrin, Illinois' small town leader, Mayor Hucks, makes a sudden change to his political stance on abortion rights, it doesn't take long for his community too vehemently react. But when the bodies start showing up in the most gruesome and disfiguring ways, the mayor and his family know they're next to learn how ungrateful someone in his town is this Thanksgiving.—Robert James Atton