best low-budget movies

A film’s brilliance should never be reliant on its budget. Of course, certain ideas aren’t possible to execute without the proper funding, but a great idea will always shine through the humble production lighting. In fact, on many occasions a lack of budget can work to a film’s advantage; found footage horror films benefit from […]

Is cinema as we know it dangerously close to extinction? This alarming question may seem over the top but it actually expresses a very real possibility; as the average movie costs and allowed budgets get outrageously larger, the relative profit studios make gets understandably lower. When a movie requires a budget of $140 million, as […]

Filmmaking is not cheap. Not only does it require a lot of very expensive and specialized equipment but also dozens of people working long hours for weeks or even months at a time. The Directors Guild of America defines high-budget as being anything above $11 million and although that is a considerable amount of money, […]