The Price We Pay Reviews
Leslie Felperin Guardian
Clearly this has been fashioned for viewers who think inventive special effects involving exploding bags of blood and baling wire are fun, which they can be if you have the stomach for it.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2023
Joel Harley Starburst
This is a film of two halves – neither one particularly new or original, but both of them directed by the singular talent which is Ryûhei Kitamura.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 2, 2023
Eric Langberg Everything's Interesting
...a violent climax full of campy, shocking, gleefully-gory imagery. If you’re the kind of horror fan willing to sit through an often-mediocre movie just to get those delicious morsels of daft zaniness, then The Price We Pay is for you.
Full Review | Mar 19, 2023
Carla Hay Culture Mix
The Price We Pay is yet another tedious and moronic slasher flick that's a very bad imitation of 1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. If you're going to copy a horror classic, at least make it compelling. The Price We Pay fails miserably on every level.
Full Review | Feb 27, 2023
Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast
Aside from the final dispatching of one of its villains, there is nothing in here that has not been done miles better in countless Don’t-Stop-At-That-Farmhouse movies.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 16, 2023
Stephanie Malone Morbidly Beautiful
A nasty, nightmarish thrill ride from a master of gore, THE PRICE WE PAY is much more delightfully wicked than expected. I'm honestly surprised it isn't being marketed more as a horror film; it's pretty gnarly for much of its 90-minute runtime.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 13, 2023
Jeffrey M. Anderson Common Sense Media
This genre-switching thriller likely hopes to entertain with its increasingly over-the-top plot turns, but by the time it gets to the good stuff, you'll likely be too frustrated by the dumb stuff.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 13, 2023
Todd Jorgenson Cinemalogue
... ramps up the gratuitous gore along with a clever twist that blurs the line between good and evil, although the tension dwindles during the chaotic final showdown
Full Review | Jan 13, 2023
Robert Daniels RogerEbert.com
No discount thrill is high enough for The Price We Pay to be worth its rock-bottom terror.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 13, 2023
Jared Mobarak Hey, Have You Seen ...?
We care enough to see where things go, but them ending up dead or alive is inconsequential since the gore is the star. I would have liked a story.
Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 13, 2023
Noel Murray Los Angeles Times
The cast is fine, but there’s a dispiriting dourness to the film. Nevertheless, after a slow start, Kitamura does offer up some impressive splatter scenes...
Full Review | Jan 13, 2023
Richard Kuipers Variety
What this tale of crooks holed up at a lonely farm with a hideous secret lacks in originality it makes up for with energetic direction by Ryuhei Kitamura (“Midnight Meat Train”), excellent practical gore effects and strong performances...
Full Review | Jan 13, 2023
Robert Kojder Flickering Myth
Even when the thrills exist, The Price We Pay is rough to watch. The best they can be said is that once it shifts genres, the filmmakers loosen up and have fun with the sick premise in gory and cartoonishly fun ways
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 12, 2023
Joey Magidson Awards Radar
A no-frills genre gore-fest, The Price We Pay knows what it is and never tries to be more than that.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2023
Anton Bitel Projected Figures
if this film’s opening scene frontloads a little too obviously the notion that there will be a ‘twist’ along the way...Ryuhei Kitamura frames everything here with mythic stylisation, and delivers deliriously baroque TCSM-style grand guignol in the end.
Full Review | Dec 4, 2022
Kat Hughes THN
The style of The Price We Pay shifts throughout, echoing the ever changing nature of the three act structure. On one hand, this all works to keep the viewer on their toes, but on the other, it makes everything a bit confusing and hard to comprehend.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 11, 2022