"Playing like the mutant offspring of Harold Pinter and Quentin Tarantino, yet fueled by its own distinctive strain of darkly comic misanthropy Cheap Thrills is capable of eliciting gasps of shock and awe from an audience." – Variety

Craig is already suffering financial woes when he's laid off. Depressed, he stops in at a cheap bar, where he runs into his high-school friend Vince. Falling into the company of the ultra-rich Colin and his trophy wife, the pair accept a series of increasingly insane dares for money they desperately need. But as the money increases, so do the trials … with gruesome results!

Voted the Midnight Films audience favourite at the SXSW Film Festival, Cheap Thrills is a daring, dangerous indie starring David Koechner (Anchorman), Pat Healy and Sara Paxton (both from The Innkeepers, MIFF 2011). Mercilessly and hilariously satirising modern-day American values, it takes its grotesque brutality to the extreme - and then some.

"Masterful and nuanced … a 100% can't miss film for any viewer that wants to be sickened, surprised and impressed." – Bloody Disgusting

D EL Katz P Gabriel Cowan, Curtis Raines, Jonathan Schurgin, Travis Stevens, John Suits, Jon D. Wagner, Gena Wilbur S David Chirchirillo, Trent Haaga Dist Madman Entertainment TD DCP/2013