Indeed this movie has become an instant cult classic. Every festival eventually will include it on a midnight program and will be a hit success. It was the sensation at 2013 SXSW Festival and Fant Tastic Fest and have massive fans around the nation that are willing to copy the same or even more gruesome actions depicted in the film. Why? No one could imagine this story in which Craig (Pat Healy) a part time writer and mechanic who also have lost this job will evolve into a weird chain of events that ultimately trigger a great dose of raw moments of the human nature. After reencountering at a bar with Vince (Ethan Embry) a high school friend, they also met a strange couple Colin and Violet who invite them to play a silly money game. The directorial debut of E.L. Katz departs from presenting a naïve situation that could have avoided the misfortunes of the characters and then within a glimpse turns the movie into a bizarre and obscure comedy. A good black comedy flick has to portrait an unmistakable sense of redemption and by delivering through a blend of simple narrative and structure pace,Cheap Thrills clearly achieves this goal. There are some issues have to be explained in order to understand Craig and Vince´s psychologies but at the end all pieces were put together since the beginning and don´t deserve to be judged as merely random coincidences. No more spoilers and enjoy this flick fully charged with madness, at least the kind of madness money can buy.
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