A scheming couple put a struggling family man and his old friend through a series of increasingly twisted dares over the course of an evening at a loc

'Cheap Thrills' will test your tolerance for gore.

This grisly, dark comedy is last year's winner of Fantastic Fest's Midnighters Audience Award.

　It starts with a trip to the bar to drown his sorrows, or at least steel his courage. Craig (Pat Healy) has been laid off. How can he tell his wife (Amanda Fuller) that they're about to be evicted? How will he support her and their baby?Before this night is through, Craig will have run…

The film will test audience's limits, but is worth the uncomfortable scenes.

Movie review: E.L. Katz's twisted morality tale 'Cheap Thrills' stars Pat Healy, Ethan Embry and David Koechner in a series of dares.

This parable of economic desperation has some absorbingly nasty moments but stretches credulity too far

A new thriller, directed by E.L. Katz.

Stereotypes are given a postmodern twist in this clever and horribly funny comedy thriller

“Cheap Thrills” is a thoroughly nasty piece of work, which doubtless will be the strongest selling point for this worst-case scenario about steadily escalating dares and degradations.

If you desperately needed money, what would you be willing to do in order to get your hands on a lot of it quickly? Living down to its title, Cheap Thrills poses an especially grim and grisly version of this question, setting up a game in which a pair of wealthy sadists, Colin (David Koechner) and Violet (Sara…

A thrill-seeking couple humiliate two slobs in a film that's both satire and horror, writes Mark Kermode

(15) E L Katz, 88 mins. Starring: Pat Healy, David Koechner, Ethan Embry

A rich, jaded married couple toys with two working-class friends in E.L. Katz's debut.

Dares and danger ignite when a down-on-his-luck mechanic meets a rich couple at a pub in this gross-out thriller by EL Katz, writes Leslie Felperin

There are satisfying echoes of Stephen King’s sly black humour in this deliciously nasty comedy thriller. It’s the story of recently sacked, about-to-be-evicted

E.L. Katz's comic thriller is an inspired, enjoyable take on a common tale.

Review: 'Jackass' Meets Michael Haneke With Grotesque Social Satire 'Cheap Thrills'