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So any of you people are fans of these movies? What are your favorite lowbudget movies? And what are the common mistakes that these young directors make?

Are we talking low budget in general?

My favorite film of all time also happens to be a low budget film

- Rocky from 1976 starring Sylvester Stallone

Budget: $1,000,000.

Yeah, all things low budget ingeneral. Wow, never knew that about rocky.
Troll hunter is probably one of my favorites and it had budget around 3 milion...

I like "40 DAYS AND NIGHTS" from the Asylum.
Don`t know how much money they needed, but it`s obviously a low budget movie.

Why I like this Movie:
There are allways the same people going around in the backround.
You have to focus on a guy with a red helmet and a woman in a blue dress. It`s a funny drinking game :D

Evil Dead 1 and 2 are my preferences.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Bad Taste, i mean come on. We need a comic sequel to this movie...

Blair Witch Project. A few unknown actors, location in the woods - that's it.

Another one of my favourite movies that also happens to be low budget is 'Pink Floyd - The Wall' it had a budget of only $12,000,000.

That's a great one.
I just watched a new Deathstroke short that somebody made and that sucked major ass, i don't get why people who don't have enough money don't use what they have? Most of the fan films boil down on Slow-Mo and really crapp desaturation efect. It's okay to pull the camera back and use natural lighting guys...

Really? I thought that was awesome, plus its more of a style choice then their inability to film it in the way you like.

Plus its a short about deathstroke, slow mo and action should be expected from a character like him.

In those regards, I'm a huge fan of Corridor Digital and Rocket Jump. Most famous for their Youtube videos such as Dubstep guns, but their newest one is this awesome Superman P.O.V.

House - 1986 IMDb lists estimated budget $3,000,000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWcZTEo3jmw

This has always been one my all time favorite movies ever since I was a little kid and it still holds up, even the monsters still look cool. Its such a fun haunted house movie. Its not meant to be scary. There were sequels. 2 is pretty good, 3 is unofficial and 4 is ok at best.

Didnt know Rocky was so low either. Now that its brought up, whats the border? At what amount is something not considered low budget anymore?

Yes to all of the above! And I'll also add Star Wars: New Hope to this, as well, as it was low-budget for its time.

That superman shorts beats Man of Steel in everything...
It wasn't well made slow mo and action it's trying to emulate holywood instead of making something good, very, very underwhemling...

this movie needs more recognition...

Well heck, if we're talking lesser-known, underrated low budget movies, I have to put forward "The Howling 3: Marsupials" and "Frankenhooker".

Personally I'm partial to movies that are "so bad they're good".

As to what makes a low budget movie bad to begin with - I can't lay the blame entirely at the feet of the directors themselves, however I do feel that a lot of indie and low budget films in general are prone to being let down by their scripts. Clashes between directors and actors happen on both high and low-budget films, which can also vastly affect the outcome of a film. A good or bad edit is definitely another huge deciding factor - the first edit of Star Wars was absolutely abysmal until George Lucas's wife at the time came in to start re-cutting it.

The best example of a bad low budget movie is, of course, Troll 2 - it of the "Best Worst Movie" infamy. It had the perfect storm of a terrible script, a low budget, actors with zero/minimal experience, and a director who (aside from being fairly full of hubris), spoke only minimal English and struggled to communicate with the actors.