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Cheap Thrills

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A series of escalating bets pits recently reunited friends against each other.
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Critics Consensus

Gleefully nasty and darkly hilarious, Cheap Thrills lives down to its title in the best possible way.

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Kate Muir The Times (UK) 09/23/2014
3/5
Gird your stomach for Cheap Thrills, a bloody but enjoyably ironic horror which enters that queasy zone where Michael Haneke's Funny Games meets a reality-TV bush tucker trial. Go to Full Review
Mark Kermode Observer (UK) 06/08/2014
3/5
You can take the result as either smart satire or sick schlock - frankly, it works on both scores. Go to Full Review
Geoffrey Macnab Independent (UK) 06/06/2014
3/5
E L Katz's film delivers exactly what the title promises. It is a very bloody, very violent fairground ride of a movie that ratchets up the tension as its two hapless anti-heroes compete desperately for money. Go to Full Review
Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh 09/20/2023
5/5
Fully succeeds with its humor and its more horrifying elements, thanks to an immensely talented cast, though the biggest strength is the organic escalation of the concept that makes the entire concept believable. Go to Full Review
Jason Adams My New Plaid Pants 07/06/2021
caustic and cruel and somehow simultaneously super funny Go to Full Review
Katie Smith-Wong Flick Feast 11/20/2019
3.5/5
Cheap Thrills is clever, disturbing and eyebrow raising, but in terms of story, it is anything but cheap. Go to Full Review
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03/15/2024 We are all looking for cheap thrills Even to the point where we would do anything for money This takes a sort of truth or dare approach An unknown cast minus David Koechner and Sara Paxton It centers on a man named Craig He's married and has a young baby The bad news is that his home is on foreclosure and he needs money otherwise he and his family will be evicted So he runs into a old friend and they get approached by this couple; they propose a deal Both of them perform crazy tasks for a large sum of money but for how long? And where does it begin to cross the line? It starts out fun but then fizzles out near the middle Gets to the point where it becomes repulsive and the characters become less likable I've seen better versions of this kind of setup See more 08/24/2022 Much darker than anticipated and in a very surprising manner. See more 12/29/2021 If you can withstand a decent amount of a gore and sit through the weirdly placed silences in this movie, there's a pretty fun and unique idea underneath. It's quite often that these "I dare you"-type movies often fail to have an engaging plot, because the director is so wrapped up in the idea of doing the most f-ed up things to the characters, that they completely forget that there is supposed to be a story behind the madness. This movie has an engaging, albeit surface-level, story - whilst still getting a bit wild with it. See more 08/18/2021 "Money, then, appears as this overturning power both against the individual and against the bonds of society. It transforms fidelity into infidelity, love into hate, hate into love, virtue into vice, vice into virtue, servant into master, master into servant, idiocy into intelligence and intelligence into idiocy." See more @c0urtn3y 01/01/2020 you feel sort of icky watching it because you know where it's heading... his friend was a royal dick but i think the end was supposed to maybe explain that; not only were the boys competing against each other but the couple had their own little side bets going as well. it's a fine watch - i've definitely seen worse. See more 12/29/2019 This movie itself is a cheap thrill and a pretty decent one. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A series of escalating bets pits recently reunited friends against each other.
Director
E.L. Katz
Producer
Gabriel Cowan, Travis Stevens, John Suits
Screenwriter
David Chirchirillo, Trent Haaga
Distributor
Drafthouse Films
Production Co
Snowfort Pictures, New Artists Alliance
Genre
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 21, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$59.4K
Runtime
1h 25m
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