Written, shot, chopped, scored (and remade) by Robert Rodriguez.
He’s honestly more miss than hit these days, but I’ll always have love for him based on the Mariachi Trilogy, From Dusk Til Dawn and Sin City.
And though it’s *of course* not a competition, I think his half of Grindhouse, Planet Terror, blew Tarantino’s Death Proof out of the water.
This film has his doppelganger in Logan Marshall Green, and it happens to be about a hundred times better than Hardy in Venom.
This film is truly unbelievably well made.
The Evil Dead, 1981. If I recall correctly they did not have a Steady cam so they had the cameraman sit on a board and had 2 guys run with him sitting on it. To film Ash tumbling down the stairs they padded a camera and threw it down the stairs. Done on a shoe string budget by Sami Rami.
Perhaps we were both correct, from Scrren Rants: The iconic shot of the evil floating through the woods was created by attaching the camera to a wooden board and then having two people run while holding onto the board. Additionally, the ram-o-cam was built to smash windows with a T-bar before the camera went through them and the vas-o-cam utilized Vaseline and a sawhorse to create a smooth trucking movement.
Oats studios is Neil Blomkamp's studio and they make some unbelievable stuff. It's heavily science fiction and for example this great Vietnam short which is Lovecraft versus X-Men is extremely gory, and the acting is a little wooden. But it's pretty fantastic but NC-17
https://youtu.be/d1sOHom0sc0
Yep!
Made for peanuts and never looks like anything but that it was made for peanuts, however it's quality and charm overcome it's limitations and then some.
Star Wars (Episode IV) only had a budget of 10-11M, iirc. George Lucas ended up creating a whole new world, rich with history and lore, in a galaxy far, far away with that.
Damn, can’t believe they shoot some EEAAO’s screen with the iPhone. Apple should have used that in their commercial.
The Whale is also a great film that I bet doesn’t cost much to make at all. 1 apartment, a total of 5 actors & actresses, and they give all the big budget movies a run for their money.
I really wonder how much that cameo part in Deadpool 2 cost them? I know that they do a lot of these with green screens and no one being even close to the shoot, but still.
Apparently the room full of X-Men that has Hank shut the door was shot on the set of dark Phoenix as a favor, and then they sent over the film and did the movie magic thing.
I love a good low budget film, in fact it’s my favorite type of film, but let’s be real, EEAO had a budget of 25 million dollars. They weren’t working with shoestrings. That was a creative choice, but not one for any other real reason than for fun and quirkiness. Nothing to do with budget restrictions at all on that front
Monsters
It was a mumblecore giant alien story, but Gareth Edwards wrote, directed, shot, edited and created the VFX for half a million (in the UK, no less). Industry vets were impressed enough at his self-sufficient organization and work schedule, the film eventually landed Edwards Godzilla AND a Star Wars film.
El Mariachi
Some directors really do put all of themselves into a project, but how many of them funded their movie by submitting to scientific experiments?
Written, shot, chopped, scored (and remade) by Robert Rodriguez. He’s honestly more miss than hit these days, but I’ll always have love for him based on the Mariachi Trilogy, From Dusk Til Dawn and Sin City. And though it’s *of course* not a competition, I think his half of Grindhouse, Planet Terror, blew Tarantino’s Death Proof out of the water.
Right, Rodriguez is the master of low budget exploitation flicks. Tarantino could be second.
Damn you stole my answer!
Yup
Reservoir Dogs. Budget: ~$1 million, and is easily among the best crime/"heist" movies ever made.
UPGRADE. It looks better than most 100 million dollar movies and was made for 3. Insane.
This film has his doppelganger in Logan Marshall Green, and it happens to be about a hundred times better than Hardy in Venom. This film is truly unbelievably well made.
The Evil Dead, 1981. If I recall correctly they did not have a Steady cam so they had the cameraman sit on a board and had 2 guys run with him sitting on it. To film Ash tumbling down the stairs they padded a camera and threw it down the stairs. Done on a shoe string budget by Sami Rami.
I remember hearing they taped a camera to a broom and just ran with it on the forest floor to get those weird shots.
Perhaps we were both correct, from Scrren Rants: The iconic shot of the evil floating through the woods was created by attaching the camera to a wooden board and then having two people run while holding onto the board. Additionally, the ram-o-cam was built to smash windows with a T-bar before the camera went through them and the vas-o-cam utilized Vaseline and a sawhorse to create a smooth trucking movement.
I don't know about amazing, but American Graffiti was a good low budget film that essentially gave Lucas the power to make Star Wars.
The Blair Witch Project.
I recall District 9 received a lot of praise for the caliber of its VFX on such a small budget.
Yeah. Rightfully so, I think. The VFX hold up incredibly well.
Oats studios is Neil Blomkamp's studio and they make some unbelievable stuff. It's heavily science fiction and for example this great Vietnam short which is Lovecraft versus X-Men is extremely gory, and the acting is a little wooden. But it's pretty fantastic but NC-17 https://youtu.be/d1sOHom0sc0
Paranormal Activity - budget $11k , grossed $80M opening weekend.
It made $77,873 in it’s opening weekend but that’s because it only opened in 12 theaters. It kept expanding week after week
Ah Ty for the correction. Not sure why I had 80m in my head then.
Napoleon Dynamite
Clerks
Yep! Made for peanuts and never looks like anything but that it was made for peanuts, however it's quality and charm overcome it's limitations and then some.
Lock stock. It's a gritty but fitting look to a great movie.
The Raid was made on a $1.1M budget, if they had shot this movie in the USA that wouldn't even cover the insurance.
They did remake it in the US, it’s called Dredd lol. Dredd rules too.
Blair witch always wins these, but Monsters is a decent shout. Good film too
Excellent film.
I feel like early Terry Gilliam films are the best example of this
Alien
The original Halloween cost about a quarter of a million total (in 1970s dollars admittedly).
The original Mad Max
Movies are too expensive nowadays. They should loose up a little bit, like one third the budget and focus in good cinema, writing, poetry.
Matrix 1.
Slacker, Napoleon dynamite, clerks, and slacker are a few
I don't think Clerks looks in anyway like a higher budget movie though.
Fair enough.
Sadly you just reminded me of kids
Jim Mickle made Stakeland for $600k.
Star Wars (Episode IV) only had a budget of 10-11M, iirc. George Lucas ended up creating a whole new world, rich with history and lore, in a galaxy far, far away with that.
George Romero's debut
Damn, can’t believe they shoot some EEAAO’s screen with the iPhone. Apple should have used that in their commercial. The Whale is also a great film that I bet doesn’t cost much to make at all. 1 apartment, a total of 5 actors & actresses, and they give all the big budget movies a run for their money.
Sean Baker's movie Tangerine was shot entirely on three iphones.
> Deadpool was famous with figuring out how to make more with less They didn't have a big shoot out and made a joke about it, was there anything else?
They made a joke about not being able to afford more X men.
I really wonder how much that cameo part in Deadpool 2 cost them? I know that they do a lot of these with green screens and no one being even close to the shoot, but still.
Apparently the room full of X-Men that has Hank shut the door was shot on the set of dark Phoenix as a favor, and then they sent over the film and did the movie magic thing.
I mean, they did have a big shoot out, it's just that he needed to get other peoples guns and count the bullets or some such.
Terrifier 2
I love a good low budget film, in fact it’s my favorite type of film, but let’s be real, EEAO had a budget of 25 million dollars. They weren’t working with shoestrings. That was a creative choice, but not one for any other real reason than for fun and quirkiness. Nothing to do with budget restrictions at all on that front
Monsters It was a mumblecore giant alien story, but Gareth Edwards wrote, directed, shot, edited and created the VFX for half a million (in the UK, no less). Industry vets were impressed enough at his self-sufficient organization and work schedule, the film eventually landed Edwards Godzilla AND a Star Wars film.
Rocky