It really was like one of those cheap special effects in a Hollywood film.

It is hard to believe anyone could ever again take Poe seriously after this exposure of his bad taste and cheap effects.

Made on a low budget, the film is full of in-jokes and the same cheap special effects from the original.

But why on earth would a loudspeaker stop except to generate a cheap effect?

A cheap effect, perhaps, but sometimes effective if you happened to be in the right mood.

A naked female body is the cheapest special effect possible in an industry obsessed with sensation.

He never resorts to attention-grabbing ploys or cheap emotional effects.

It is one of the cheapest effects in the locker, best left to the Disney company.

Any actor would have known it for a cheap effect.

Directors invariably go for the cheap effect ignoring or ignorant of true psychology.