You have to spend a lot of money to make a big movie, but not necessarily to make a good one. Most people don't make good movies, not because they don't have the money, but because they don't have the material. Sometimes even without gorgeous special effects and big-name actors, you can make a movie that the audience will never forget. Today, Xiaobian will take stock of several low-cost but countless word-of-mouth movies.
Take a look at nine of the most successful low-budget films in movie history
"The Panic Party" cost: $350,000 If you want to recommend the chamber of secrets, "The Panic Party" series is absolutely impossible to circumvent. In the whole trilogy, the first part is the most outstanding, and the latter two only dare to repeat under the framework of its foundation. The entire film cost only $350,000, in stark contrast to the flood of praise and buzz it received. It is the perfect interpretation of a good science fiction film, which can be supported by inspiration alone.
Cost: $230,000 Think Quentin's movies are enough to talk, recommend Kevin Smith's work. Don't need to see much, this directorial debut "Crazy Man" is enough. The two main characters, working at a grocery store and video rental. One slutty, always wears a hat, and the other is a little fat, a little slow, a little nervous. The film has no main story line, only two gay friends and some clips of friends and customers.
"This Man from Earth" cost: $200,000 a group of people + an enclosed space, which has become one of the standard features of low-cost science fiction movies. At the beginning of the film, John, a 35-year-old Harvard history professor, has quit his job after ten years on the job. In the face of seeing off colleagues puzzled, John confided his identity of 14,000 years old immortal. So a group of historians, religious scientists, biologists, psychologists have challenged him with professional knowledge, and John has responded with reasonable answers to questions about his lack of scars, concealment of identity, participation in historical events, immortality, and so on. Although the scenes are monotonous, the details such as scene scheduling, line design and character performance have been fully worked out. Many suspense films lose their charm as soon as the plot is revealed, but this one lets John tell the truth from the start.
"The Death Code" Cost: $60,000 For a low-budget sci-fi film, there is a crazy and unique idea, and it has half the script. The idea is that natural language can be explained by numbers, and if you find patterns in those numbers, you can apply them to everything in nature. The Jewish genius mathematician Maxi was obsessed with the world of numbers and gradually approached this law.
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Paranormal Activity Cost: $15,000 "Paranormal Activity" belongs to a specific genre of film known as mockumentary. As the name implies, it's shaky shots, noisy voiceovers, gritty video, random editing, and so on... Make a feature film "fake" into a documentary!
Cost: $7,000 A criminal escapes prison and comes to a small town to seek revenge, only to be known that he hid his gun in a guitar case. Just then, a guitarist dressed in black arrived in town. A strange combination of circumstances unfolded, leading to a series of explosive chase.
Ray Cost: $7,000 Director Shane Carruth, 31, was an engineer, tired of the routine of work, quit home, write, direct and act on his own film. The story tells of several entrepreneurs who collaborate to develop an error-checking machine.
Cost: $6,000 Director Christopher Nolan's house was once broken into by a thief, after which he often imagined what the intruder's thoughts and activities were. This idea slowly developed into the inspiration for his debut feature film, Follow. In the story, the idle Bill passes the time by following others.
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