Cheap Thrills

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

"...Last year's SXSW Film Midnighters Audience Award winner, Cheap Thrills, is a dark comedy that riffs on the..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Cheap Thrills' + Scary Laughs [Updated]

E.L. Katz debuts horror-comedy, Drafthouse Films snatches it up

"...tone for the world premiere of his directorial debut, Cheap Thrills, with this suggestion: “No matter how fucked up..."

March 11, 2013 SXSW Post by Ashley Moreno

Fantastic Fest: 'Man of Tai Chi' & 'Cheap Thrills'

Sept. 21, 2013. 25 photos.

"...'Man of Tai Chi' and 'Cheap Thrills' red carpet and Q&A at Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline,..."

Sept. 23, 2013 Photo Gallery

Shoot to Thrill

Sara Paxton on all the awkward and awesome moving parts behind E.L. Katz's 'Cheap Thrills'

"...with her co-star Pat Healy for new morality play Cheap Thrills, and that's just one step on a shadowy..."

March 21, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Wish Upon

A music box leads to deadly wish fulfillment

"...screenplay appeared on the 2015 Black List), teetering between cheap laughs and cheap thrills without doing either very well...."

July 14, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

When the Bough Breaks

A surrogate mother goes psycho

"...script. When the Bough Breaks could have offered some cheap thrills, but it ends up a neutered, paint-by-numbers snoozefest,..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Boy Next Door

Jennifer Lopez stars in this brazenly dumb MILF thriller.

"...screenplay is short on character development and long on cheap thrills. No doubt, a genre film like this one..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Painted Veil

Set in China and starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, and Liev Schreiber, this melodic adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel is the story of many things – but it is most of all the story of a marriage.

"...boring despite a sojourn in Shanghai, where Kitty chases cheap thrills with a fellow expat (Schreiber). Walter punishes Kitty..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Ride for Your Life

"...lacks the complex choices of the former and the cheap thrills of the latter. It's neither fish nor fowl..."

May 12, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Shameless

"...turns that mostly center around Karp's unending appetite for cheap thrills and breaking and entering. It may be a..."

June 4, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Hits the Road

Austin's trademark genre festival goes on tour

"...tour will include (natch) four Drafthouse Films titles (Borgman, Cheap Thrills, The Congress, and Why Don't You Play in..."

Oct. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Mr. League

Alamo Drafthouse honcho Tim League on debates, distro, and the change in venue

"...FF regular Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace, Sightseers); SXSW award-winner Cheap Thrills; The Congress, a semi-animated meditation on fame starring..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Announces Keanu Reeves as 'Man of Tai Chi'

Plus 'Big Bad Wolves' and 'Nightbreed - The Cabal Cut' and more

"...also get the return of SXSW audience award winner Cheap Thrills...."

July 24, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Magnolia Becomes 'Drinking Buddies,' Magnet Gets 'Milo'

SXSW acquisitions continue with ensemble drama and horror comedy

"...Films announced they had picked up the audience award-winning Cheap Thrills, starring the phenomenal Pat Healy (Compliance) and his..."

March 19, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Down in the Valley

Sadly, this is less the epic modern Western it aspires to be than a muddled melodrama about a delusional drifter played by Edward Norton.

"...There’s no depth to the story, and as the thrills start to kick in, Down in the Valley becomes..."

June 2, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...four studio recordings, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Cheap Thrills, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!,..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

Crumb

"...the sensational album cover for Janis Joplin's recording debut, Cheap Thrills. The movie tells us a lot about Crumb's..."

June 30, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVD Watch: '24 Exposures'

Joe Swanberg on filmmaker obsessions tops this week's releases

"...Cheap Thrills (New Video Group) A SXSW smash and one..."

May 27, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

God's Country

Thandiwe Newton finds darkness in the heartland

"...Country that will grab you first. Cinematographer Andrew Wheeler (Cheap Thrills) casts his lens on the snow-covered corners of..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

We Need to Do Something

The terror is coming from inside and outside the house

"...Genre stalwart Healy (Cheap Thrills, The Innkeepers) plays Robert, the alcoholic head of..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Panic Fest Review: Vicious Fun

Serial killer comedy gets to the bloody point

"...He's already proven his flair for gruesome comedy with Cheap Thrills, but the SNL alum is a treat here..."

April 24, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Devil's Candy

Heavy metal and Satanism in a rural Texas town

"...Embry (Cheap Thrills) is Jesse Hellman, an aspiring artist and committed..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ethan Embry Licks The Devil's Candy

Cheap Thrills star on his very heavy metal Austin horror

"...burly, muscled-up turn in 2013 SXSW Midnighter award winner Cheap Thrills, Embry dropped 50 pounds to look like "an..."

March 31, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: 68 Kill

Amorality road-trip tale heists Midnighter Audience Award

"...of his script for SXSW 2013 morality tale/crime comedy Cheap Thrills with the occasional nihilistic blast of his transgressive..."

March 18, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Fashionista

Crime and madness in Austin's thrift stores

"...and Eric (Ethan Embry, who co-starred with Fuller in Cheap Thrills) run a busy little store. For him, it's..."

Sept. 27, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Adult Audio Coloring Book Sampler

A look back at illustrated album covers old and new

"...Never Knows." – Abby Johnston Big Brother & the Holding CompanyCheap Thrills (1968)..."

July 29, 2016 Music Feature by Michael Toland

The Final Girls

Smart homage to the cheesy campsite horror films of the Eighties

"...of course) ends the rampage. Aside from its rote cheap thrills, the genre’s sex-equals-death equation unconsciously spoke to a..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

ABCs of Death 2

Let us count the ways this compilation of 26 short films gets its spook on.

"...the best of this volume: a hitman farce from Cheap Thrills director E.L. Katz, a hilarious courtroom drama involving..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Drafthouse Asks Us, 'Why Don't You Play in Hell'

Madcap yakuza flick to play Fantastic Fest, open in 2014

"...Congress: uninvited guest drama Borgman; and SXSW award winner Cheap Thrills. Start betting now on which FF titles will..."

Sept. 2, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

One Letter Short for 'ABCs of Death 2'

25 director teams announced: Can you bring the mayhem for 'M'?

"...Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (Inside, Livid) E.L. Katz (Cheap Thrills) Jen and Sylvia Soska (American Mary, Dead Hooker..."

Aug. 14, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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