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12 years ago

For low budget movies, I love Jackie Chan's Hong Kong movies...

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LeeLee

12 years ago

Billy Jack
Night of the Living Dead

re: Jackie Chan, Hong Kong - One night we rented a Jackie Chan movie. I don't remember the title but it clearly was one of his earlier ones. And it was in Chinese. So it was kind of interesting trying to make it all out. Doh! There was an English version on the video too. Dumb but funny. I am such a fan though I rewatched the whole thing in English.

Just found this on Billy Jack:

Budget - $800,000 (estimated)
Rentals - $32,500,000 (USA)

Night of the Living Dead

Budget
$114,000 (estimated)
Gross
$12,000,000 (USA) ( January 2000)
$30,000,000 (Worldwide)
Rentals
$1,600,000 (USA)

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Doug

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Greg Wildermuth

Yeah! All those old 60s and 70s horror movies are awesome. I always loved 'Hills Have Eyes.'

Probably my all-time fave low budget movie is 'Death Race 2000.'

Yep, Death Race 2000 was incredibly bad enough to be worth watching.

I would add to the list 'The Blob' with Steve McQueen, and more recently 'Tremors' with Kevin Bacon.

The Thing from Another World I liked, and when I was very young I remember a movie called Mole Men, I think.

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Jun Balona

12 years ago

The Blair Witch Project was cool. Freaky but cool.

There's also the Toxic Avenger movies. Love those too.

And yeah, all kung fu flicks of Jet Li, especially those that portray him as the legendary fighter Wong Fei-Hung.

Currently I saw a French film titled 'Wasabi' starring Jean Reno. I don't know if that was low budget but the movie was very hilarious so might as well share it here.

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kirk89

12 years ago

FARGO (1996)
By the Coen Brothers

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Kurt

12 years ago

All of The Gods Must Be Crazy movies...

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Roaddog

12 years ago

El Mariachi

Mad Max

Halloween

American Graffiti

Clerks

Enter the Dragon

Rocky (1)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

All had a budget of 1m or a lot less and made multi millions...there were others, but I actually liked these...

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12 years ago

Paranormal Activity 3 was really good, and it would have been pretty cheap to make

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BloggingPro

12 years ago

Anyone ever see that low budget fan made Lord of the Rings movie?

Hunt for Gollum I think it was called. Absolutely amazing what they accomplished, most of it done by volunteers.

In terms of widely released "low budget" films?

Requiem for a Dream was produced for a measly 4.5 million and is an amazing piece of film. Darren Aronfsky's pi is great as well and is super low budget.

The original Paranormal activity was shot on prosumer camera equipment, on a strict seven day schedule and was developed because the creator was trying to overcome his fear of ghosts.

A lot of numbers have been thrown around but its safe to say that the cost to produce the actual movie was under $10k. I'm sure marketing the thing cost a bit more than that.

It's a favorite of mine, and not just because the guy who made it used to frequent a indie-filmmaking forum I posted on when I was still into that.

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Jonathan 2.0

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by BloggingPro

Anyone ever see that low budget fan made Lord of the Rings movie?

Hunt for Gollum I think it was called. Absolutely amazing what they accomplished, most of it done by volunteers.

That reminds me of “Braindead.” (I think it was called “Dead Alive” in the US.) Directed by Peter Jackson.

Good movie although not one of my favourites. YouTube it if you're interested in low budget horror

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Steven Wagenheim

12 years ago

What's with all these lightweights?

Invaders From Mars - $290,000
House On Haunted Hill - $200,000
Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman - $88,000
Plan 9 From Outer Space - $60,000
The Hideous Sun Demon - Under $50,000 and shot in 12 weekends.

Robot Monster - $16,000 (4 days of shooting)
The Giant Behemoth - (The animation work cost $5,000

)

I'll stop there or I'll be at this all day. Some low budget wonders I couldn't
find stats for so I left them out, sadly...because they are some real classics.
But these should give you an idea of what REAL low budget schlock is all
about.

At least somebody mentioned Night Of The Living Dead. But the rest of these?

What a bunch of panty wastes.

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Jonathan 2.0 Banned 12 years ago

Hah.

"Waggerz" is back in full force.
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HeySal

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

What's with all these lightweights?

Invaders From Mars - $290,000
House On Haunted Hill - $200,000
Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman - $88,000
Plan 9 From Outer Space - $60,000
The Hideous Sun Demon - Under $50,000 and shot in 12 weekends.

Robot Monster - $16,000 (4 days of shooting)
The Giant Behemoth - (The animation work cost $5,000

)

I'll stop there or I'll be at this all day. Some low budget wonders I couldn't
find stats for so I left them out, sadly...because they are some real classics.
But these should give you an idea of what REAL low budget schlock is all
about.

At least somebody mentioned Night Of The Living Dead. But the rest of these?

What a bunch of panty wastes.

Plan 9 from Outer Space is the B-movie that I always think of when someone says low budget. It was so badly done that it took on a comedy effect.

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Steven Wagenheim 12 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

Plan 9 from Outer Space is the B-movie that I always think of when someone says low budget. It was so badly done that it took on a comedy effect.

Plan 9 is the B-Movie to end all B-Movies and yet it didn't have the smallest
budget. In fact, I don't even think it would make the top 5 if you could get
production stats for some of the amazing crap that's out there. Robot Monster
is probably in the top 5 and maybe close to the top, but I can't be sure without
more research.

I've always been a HUGE fan of low budget thrillers. One day, when I have the
time, I'll dig up some more gems (with their production figures) so we can have
a really good laugh.

Poor Bela Lugosi. The movie was so bad, he died mid production.

He probably died from embarrassment.
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MikeAmbrosio

12 years ago

I have a soft spot for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Saw this over 50 times.

From Wikipedia: The film has taken in US$139,876,417 at the US box office since its release. The length of its run in cinemas (weekly for over 30 years), combined with its considerable total box office gross, is unparalleled by any other film. The original budget for the film was US$1,200,000 (estimated).

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sprice

12 years ago

The Paranormal Activity Series. They're budget for the first one was SUPER low.