
Craig (Pat Healy) is a struggling family man who loses his low-wage job and is threatened with eviction. In an effort to delay facing the music at home, he heads to a local bar and runs into an old friend (Ethan Embry). The 2 are roped into a round of drinks by a charismatic and obscenely wealthy stranger (David Koechner) along with his mysterious wife (Sara Paxton). The couple engages the pair friends in a series of innocent dares in exchange for money over the course of the... (Full plot summary below)
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Craig (Pat Healy) is a struggling family man who loses his low-wage job and is threatened with eviction. In an effort to delay facing the music at home, he heads to a local bar and runs into an old friend (Ethan Embry). The 2 are roped into a round of drinks by a charismatic and obscenely wealthy stranger (David Koechner) along with his mysterious wife (Sara Paxton). The couple engages the pair friends in a series of innocent dares in exchange for money over the course of the evening, with each challenge upping the ante in both reward and boundaries. It seems like easy and much needed money, but the couple's twisted sense of humor pushes just how far Craig and his friend are willing to go for money and cheap thrills.
Leave your thoughts about Cheap Thrills.
| Film ThreatDon SimpsonCheap Thrills is clearly the smartest hyper-violent film I have ever seen. |
| Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeKatz has a clear investment in Healy's character and convincingly depicts his choices as inevitable even when they become anything but. |
| Film Comment MagazineViolet LuccaThe "worst day of your life" premise is a well-worn one ... but seldom has it plumbed the depths of desperation and sadism the way Cheap Thrills does. |
| Concrete PlaygroundTom CliftFor all its moments of depravity and violence, the most shocking thing about Cheap Thrills may be the realisation as to where we would draw the line for ourselves. |
| Paste MagazineMonica CastilloFirst-time filmmaker Katz effectively sets relatable problems as the catalyst to the story before the absurd takes over. |
| HitFixDrew McWeenyCheap Thrills is a film that works as entertainment first, but it offers up a vital and horrifying discussion of the growing division between the haves and the have nots, and as a glimpse of what could be, it is truly chilling. |
| Shockya.comPerri NemiroffExceptionally entertaining and effective thanks to quality characters and a well-calculated build that justify the gore. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfIt's not a swiftly paced picture, but when it finally arrives at the horrible business, it pulls off the madness with gusto. |
| Spectrum CulturePat PaduaComes on as if the Hangover movies were exercises in psychological degradation, which they were. |
| National PostNathalie AtkinsonThe result? High and humorous tension both on the screen and in the audience seats. |