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.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 20, 2023

caustic and cruel and somehow simultaneously super funny

| Jul 6, 2021

Cheap Thrills is clever, disturbing and eyebrow raising, but in terms of story, it is anything but cheap.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 20, 2019

A cheap, quick thrill ride that may be entertaining and even vicious, but without any kind of real payoff.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 29, 2019

The sort of original, intense, darkly comic character-driven thrill ride that I'd love to see more genre filmmakers working on

| Aug 5, 2019

It's good cheap quickfire shock-horror genre thrills, appropriately well directed and well scripted, a potential cult classic, with some blacker than black humour thrown in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2019

It's a compact, twisted, delightful (if you're into this sort of thing) nugget of exploitation that thrives on committed performances and sound craftsmanship.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Apr 3, 2019

A commendably flawed experiment in imbuing social anxiety with genre shocks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2019

Comes on as if the Hangover movies were exercises in psychological degradation, which they were.

| Original Score: 3.75/5 | Aug 31, 2018

Thankfully, the film gets just as dark as you would expect it to, but the ingenuity of Cheap Thrillsis that is does not follow a predictable path.

| Aug 21, 2018

A fantastic premise in search of a better movie...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 26, 2016

Strikes an astute balance between a simply engaging dark thriller and a trenchant piece of social commentary. Also it's a lot of fun.

| Aug 24, 2015

Cheap Thrills lives up to its name, and like many of life's guilty pleasures, it wouldn't be a surprise if audiences wanted another helping.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2015

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-온라인카지노추천 bush tucker trial.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2014

The film makes the most of its premise and small cast, zipping from low-budget drama to sick black comedy to gruesome thriller.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 7, 2014

Director EL Katz ratchets up the tension effectively as the game gets ever more sickeningly dark, but it's his cast's fine performances that keep us watching and give this far-fetched tale a degree of emotional plausibility.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 15, 2014

Comedies don't get much more pitch-black than this fiendishly clever film, which will shift into horror for everyone in the audience, although that tipping point varies for each person.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2014

You can take the result as either smart satire or sick schlock - frankly, it works on both scores.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2014

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2014

The blackest and most twisted of twisted black comedies, surely destined to become that indistinct phenomenon, a cult hit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2014