‘Big Break’ Review: Comedy Quartet Meets Serial-Killer Peril in an Amusing, Tongue-in-Cheek Thriller

Sketch troupe Simple Town transitions to the long form with this prankish take on horror terrain, also a feature debut for director Ian Faria.

By Dennis Harvey

Dennis Harvey

Film Critic

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NYC-based sketch comedy quartet Simple Town, who have performed live and in online shorts over the last decade, make an amusing leap to the feature-film format in “Big Break.” Ostensibly playing themselves, the group here gathers at a country manse to celebrate one member’s breakaway mainstream success — and for the other three to beg/cajole him into sharing that good fortune. Unbeknownst to the visitors, there’s an unhappy fifth party already in the house… and more than one homicidal maniac even within that small populace. 

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