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CHEAP THRILLS Showing Midnights at the Hi-Pointe This Weekend
The guys at Destroy the Brain pick a new flick once a year to show at their monthly Late Night Grindhouse midnight series, which usually showcases classic horror and sleaze from the ‘70s and ‘80s. HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN and BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW are a couple of the St. Louis premieres they’ve shown in the past. This weekend they’re screening something new called CHEAP THRILLS which Andy chose after seeing it at a horror film festival. Good enough for me. I’ve purposely not read up on this film because I’d like to be surprised, but it’s getting praise (and condemnation) from all the right places (Rex Reed says it “lowers the standards of nausea and disgust to new levels”).
CHEAP THRILLS screens midnights at The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis) this Friday and Saturday nights (April 11th and 12th)
CHEAP THRILLS follows Craig (Pat Healy, Compliance), a struggling family man who loses his low-wage job and is threatened with eviction. In an effort to delay facing the music at home, he heads to a local bar and encounters an old friend (Ethan Embry). The two friends are roped into a round of drinks by a charismatic and obscenely wealthy stranger (David Koechner) along with his mysterious wife (Sara Paxton). The couple engages the two friends in a series of innocent dares in exchange for money over the course of the evening, with each challenge upping the ante in both reward and boundaries. It seems like easy and much needed money, but the couple’s twisted sense of humor pushes just how far Craig and his friend are willing to go for money and cheap thrills.
Andrew O’Herir at Salon said of CHEAP THRILLS:
“…..if you have an appetite for fatalistic, dirty-minded gore, you won’t be disappointed.”
Film Threat wrote:
“CHEAP THRILLS is clearly the smartest hyper-violent film I have ever seen.”
and Eric Walkuski at Jo Blo’s Movie Emporium wrote:
“….more disturbing, gross and bleakly amusing than you thought imaginable; a movie destined to make you feel bad about yourself for how much you get off on its sick antics and ever-escalating game of how low can you go.”
If those recommendations don’t make you want to see CHEAP THRILLS, then you got no guts! I’ll be there! The pre-show begins at 11:30
The Facebook event page for the Friday night screening can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/652274218164647/
The Facebook event page for the Saturday night screening can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/591084920988016
The Destroy The Brain.com site can be found HERE
http://www.destroythebrain.com/
The Hi-Pointe Theater’s site can be found HERE
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