Best Lowest Budget movie you've seen

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Arcburn

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As a lot of us are low budget movie makers.

I was curious if people had recommendations for the best movies they had seen with a tiny budget.

I haven't seen "Open Water" but that comes to mind. "Blair Witch" obviously.

What else is out there?
 
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Ooooh. Nice topic. Hmmmm....

Halloween stands out.
Night of the Living Dead stands out.
 
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It's not low budget in the means of Halloween or Clerks, but Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs are extremely well made for having budgets under 5 million.
 
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okay lets do this to make things clearer

Open Water = $130,00
Clerks = $27,575
Halloween = $325,000 (is this correct?)
Blair Witch = $35,000
Night of the Living Dead = $114,000 (this seems high too)
Resevoir Dogs = $1.2 M
Pulp Fiction = $8 M
 
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I think 8 million is the IMDB budget for Pulp Fiction, but if memory serves me I believe reading that they did the movie for 5 million.
 
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it's weird the imdb budgets seem way off.

It listed Clerks at 230K. No way.
 
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Yup, El Mariachi has every low budget beat in the dollar-to-entertainment ratio. I can't think of one other full length feature shot for only $7000 that's ended up on the big screen. Not even Roger Corman films are that cheap. :)
 
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I saw a behind the scenes video of "Pulp," and they said it was 8 million. It was someone being interviewed, too (and I believe even Tarantino.)
 
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[quote author=Mike_Donis link=board=movies;num=1094244199;start=0#13 date=09/03/04 at 18:26:27]I saw a behind the scenes video of "Pulp," and they said it was 8 million.  It was someone being interviewed, too (and I believe even Tarantino.)[/quote]

I stand corrected.
 
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God directed by Werner Herzog.
 
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I was watching the Reservoir Dogs Special edition the other day and tarantino gives the whole story of how he got to make the film and how much it cost. $900,000 .

I watched Blood Simple for the first time yesterday and it was good. I have a book Called My first movie and the Coens say they raised $750,000 for the film
 
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900 000$ = low budget???

we can almost make i big movie on that sum (in sweden). But that doesn´t mean that we make good movies on that sum ;)

But i have seen excellent movies made with 1,5 millions $ budget (after 2000).
 
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I thought Blair Witch was $60K.
I had read this in a magazine.

All the best

Fidel.
 
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Here are six of my favorite low budget movies (in no particular order):

Sex Lies and Videotape
Kids
Slackers
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Living in Oblivion
Lord of the Flies (if you listen to the commentary on the criterion disc it is really amazing. These guys were on the cutting edge of hand held work.)
 
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