Home Alone, made on a budget of just 18 million and grossed 477 million. Also E.T. made a enormous amount of 794 million on a budge of just 10 million.
I watched it after hearing how great and scary it was I was so confused. I had no clue what I just watched. But they made alot of money so good for them.
Kummakummakummakummakummachameleon I had the same experience with Blair Witch Project. I just was unmoved by that one, and the stuff I should’ve been scared by didn’t do anything to me, because so much time had passed that I didn’t remember it. (the house they enter at the end had been torn/burned down long ago, the guy is exactly in the same position as a previous murder victim, blah blah)
yeah. absolutely. When asked about movies that made millions out of a piece of scrap, I'd first remember "Mad Max", then "Blair-WP" and "Napoleon Dynamite".
Dirty Dancing, made for $6 million, earned $170 million. Also, while slightly outside your range, the original Star Wars was made for only $11 million and earned more than $750 million, way more return on investment than any other Star Wars movie.
@@Ayyyyther It's true. I did state that it was slightly outside their range. It's the overall ROI that impresses me. I brought it up because of that. Even considering the initial box office run as mentioned by @Marko Todorovic above, that's a return of 22 times the budget. If you applied that to Episode 8, with a $300 million budget and worldwide box office of $1.3 billion, it only returned 4 times the budget. Considering that $11 million in 1977 equates to about $43.5 million today, Episode 8 effectively cost almost 7 times as much to make while effectively returning only $200 million more ($265 million (1977) converted to $1.1 billion (2019)). If it had earned at the same rate, Episode 8 would be closer to $6.6 billion. Any studio should hope for such a return on investment. Since inflation turned 1977's $1 into 2019's $4.22, Episode 8 should either have cost much less to make or earned much more than it did. And since breaking the $1 billion mark is the benchmark today (where it used to be $100 million), I'd say $300 million was way too high a price tag.
The same was true for the first Alien, it was made on a tight budget and it showed somewhat on screen (compared with sequels) . Always the same story, you have to be bankable to get the big money.
Seriously, I expected it to possibly be #1. My car cost more than it took to make that movie and I'm hardly rich. It made over 3 million and spawned a movie universe.
My mom and I went to the theaters and the only one we could find to watch was a movie just labeled “Wedding” on the ticket screen. So we just went ahead and went and boy were we happy we did!! We loved it!! At the time it really did feel like we hit a little movie gem.
How is the original Mad Max not on the list at all? It was made with a budget of US$350,000 and held the record for most profitable film due to making over US$10 million at the box office!
Honestly if you know what you’re looking at it’s not hard to see where they’ve cut costs! There’s a truck with a fake front on it so they didn’t damage it running over a motorcycle for example. Plus a lot of the ruined buildings were exactly that, ruined buildings set to be demolished.
@@kimmywimmy7305 that movie scared me more than any other movie ever has. Paranormal Activity 2 scared the SH*T out of me at the end when the sister showed up and killed her brother in law and sister then took the baby. It was super real looking (just like the Blair witch project) when she walked into the view of the camera that was pointing towards the couch that the husband was sleeping on and she snapped his neck. I had to let the dogs in where I sleep to put me at ease. Lol
Lost in translation was an eye opener for me. Bill Murray played his part as a truth of who he was. What amazed me was Scarlett Johansson actually engaging me in her life and perspective which at my age and gender totally surprised me!
Steve P... I agree with you. When Scarlett is in a movie, I usually pass on it, but this had THE MAN in this movie so I had to watch... And SHE really surprised me.
Peele deserves all the praise the movie gets. It was an amazing film. Me and my friend loved it. So did everybody else. I still love Peele as a comedy actor but he was a freaking genius with this film.
Robert Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film El Mariachi, which was a commercial success after grossing $2 million against a budget of $7,000... Not to shabby.
@@catjudo1 Desperado was good, I haven't watched once upon a time in Mexico yet so I can't have an opnion (but to my luck it's on Amazon prime video so I'm gonna watch it and then after watching it I'm going to edit this comment)
I still remember the Blair Witch Project hype. It was unreal. Everyone was talking about it for months and no one could seem to agree on whether the movie was real found footage with some edits throw in or just produced and directed like any other movie. A lot of people actually believed BWP was for real, back then.
I was tricked by friends into believing it was real. I worked long hours back then, and I never heard the hype about it. My friends took me to some small theater and said it was only showing in our town, because it was filmed by college kids from around there. It freaked me TF out, and I couldn't sleep that whole night. They told me the truth the next day.
I love how apparently under 10 million is considered 'low budget' these days lol Oh for the days when low budget actually meant "camcorders, no special effects, backyards and personal houses, and sneaking around to avoid paying filming licenses' :D
The irony is that when shyamalan made glass , people immediate compared it to other superhero movies and started giving their verdict ... It was a good movie considering the tone of movie and budget
I remember watching Paranormal Activity. It was in the daytime and the lights were on and even though I knew there was nothing to be scared of, I was still scared shitless and I couldn't finish it.
So compare it to the movie that made number one? Not the other nine or the honorable mentions, just the number one? Thanks for being a fuckwit, move along.
The penultimate sword and sandals historical drama "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." They couldn't afford horses for the film but the coconuts were remarkably true to life and well played!
I knew a guy who thought he missed getting into a 1976 test screening for Rocky - but an usher came out the side door and politely told him there were a couple seats left. The “usher” was Stallone himself doing whatever he could to help.
Working in the business, I can assure that often on low budget films, the producers inflate the reported budget. This is done in order to attract a distribution company who may roll their eyes if they think the budget is too low.
Still can't understand how people make such a big deal out of Blair Witch Project it literally put me to sleep, people running around in the woods with shaky cameras horrible overacting. That movie sucked there was nothing that great about it.
It actually terrified the heck out of young me when it came out but I can't help feeling part of that was nausea induced by all that shaky-cam on a big screen. Now THAT was horrendous.
Several of these movies are on my all-time favorites list. I loved Lost in Translation because there is so little dialogue at times you can almost hear Scarlett Johansen's thoughts. I'm told that the last scene where Bill Murray whispers something in Scarlett's ear was totally improvised. The look in her eyes is absolutely priceless. I'd love to know what he said to her. I'm kind of surprised two other BM films aren't mentioned here: Rushmore and The Life Aquatic. Both are phenomenal examples of what a talented director can accomplish with little money, a good story and great actors.
I felt sorry for the main actor, Jon Heder or Hader or whatever his last name is, because they didn't think the film would make that much money, he had a contract done up where he just got a one off payment and no royalties and then the movie made millions.
the movie became the foundation for the Mexico trilogy which had a combined box office gross of $125.6 million. And that does not include all of the dvd sales.
Blair Witch was the craziest to me.. Made for $60,000 pulled in $300,000,000!!! Get out was the shizz!! All the freaking slavery type Easter eggs in it was just astounding!!! Little Miss Sunshine was really good!! Actually, I really liked all of these movies.. You cannot beat Saw franchise.. All of them are great and gore!! I didn't realize Split was so low budget!! Love it and cannot wait for Glass!
Good movies on low budget that didn't make much but were great. The Daytrippers (1996) with Tucci and Hope Davis Parker Posey and Liev Schreiber and Campbell Scott. Also Pattti Rocks.
American Graffiti is a classic. This only proves that networks and studios don't have a clue what it takes to make a good film. Just because they put up the money they feel they have the right to change anything they want.
They never mentioned "Boys don't cry" which budget was 2 million dollars and catapulted Hillary Swank to stardom. She got the Oscar for best actress for this movie.
Same here. I remember queueing at the cinema and someone speaking to other people in the line saying 'it's rubbish and not scarey'. I thought he was just showing off. After the film I was like 'yeah he was right'
I was astonished that the movie "Marty" was not here. $340,000.00 to make, brought in over $3 million in 1955/56 dollars and still make money to this day. Won the following Academy Awards too--Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screen Play , Best Director. Won 8 other awards world wide.
Mad Max (Original) was made for $400,000 and held the Guinness world record of highest profit film making over $100,000,000 until it was overthrown by Blair Witch.
The Passion of the Christ is the biggest low budget b.o. hit ever being so controversial ,persecuted and with staged terrible reviews before it came out and rated R and in 3 Ancient dialects with subtitles...it cost around 25-30m and gained 600 m World wide 20 times its budget just amazing a huge bet and a personal feat for visionary filmmaker&Hollywood Legend Mel Gibson
Left out Smokey and the Bandit. Hal Needham’s directorial debut that started out as a B movie. Had a minuscule budget of $17.5 million and grossed over $180 million world wide. Two Oscars and ended up being the #2 film of 1977 behind the first Star Wars. I think a film like THAT should be in this list
1. American Graffiti 2. Lost in Translation 3. Annabelle 4. The Blair Witch Project 5. Get Out 6. Juno 7. Little Miss Sunshine 8. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 9. Rocky 10.
"Platoon (1986)" was shot by Oliver Stone in The Philippines in two months. I had no idea it was a low budget movie when I saw it and it still doesn't show it after all this time. Nearly every shot in this Vietnam War movie looks epic.
To name a few, (in order of budget): El Mariachi - Robert Rodriguez, ($9,000 bg - $3,000,000 bo) Clerks - Kevin "Silent Bob" Smith, ($27,000 bg - $3,000,000 bo). Mad Max - George Miller, ($400,000 bg - $376,000,00 bo). Sling Blade, Billy Bob Thornton, ($1,000,000 bg - 24,000,000 bo, plus numerous awards, including an academy award for "best adapted screeenplay" and a nomination for "best actor"). Pulp Fiction - Quintin Tarantino, ($8,500,000 bg - $250,000,000 bo, plus numerous awards, and an astounding twenty six academy award nominations).
It made 3.2 million on a 27K budget. That's not including home video. It was the most stolen VHS tape at rental stores too, but that's another category .
I kept waiting for "Once" to show up in your list. It was made for less than $100K ($50K maybe?) and was a box office smash. Then it went on to become a wonderful Broadway musical.
American Graffiti was recently put in the Library of Congress Collection of Movies reserved only to films that had an enormous cultural impact on society.
Ice Cube's Friday deserves at least an honourable mention, probably didnt make as much profit at the box office as some on the vid but made an absolute fortune when released on video & then later on DVD, plus had a multi platinum soundtrack.
Bruce Lee's Enter The Dragon had a budget of 850,000 dollars, yet has made close to 300 million dollars at the box office. It is still considered to be the greatest martial arts movie of all-time and it is the only martial arts movie to make the American Film Institutes Top 100 movie list. It boggles the mind that this iconic movie was left off this list.
What other movies should've made this list?
No mention of Mad Max?
Looper terminator
El Mariachi by Robert Rodrigues
Home Alone, made on a budget of just 18 million and grossed 477 million. Also E.T. made a enormous amount of 794 million on a budge of just 10 million.
28 days later, 8m budget 80m at the box office + a couple awards
split had a low budget because they only needed 1 actor to play 20 now that is impressive
Chard I know right... 😂😂😂
Hopefully he got paid for every person he had to play. 😂😂
Great movie
Great actor too
Finn Bell you high?
10:57
Looper: “Paranormal Activity”
Me: *rolls eyes*
Looper: “Go ahead... Roll your eyes...”
Me: 😳
Same
I watched it after hearing how great and scary it was I was so confused. I had no clue what I just watched. But they made alot of money so good for them.
Kummakummakummakummakummachameleon I had the same experience with Blair Witch Project. I just was unmoved by that one, and the stuff I should’ve been scared by didn’t do anything to me, because so much time had passed that I didn’t remember it. (the house they enter at the end had been torn/burned down long ago, the guy is exactly in the same position as a previous murder victim, blah blah)
Check out the Owl Kitty video of PA
its a good movie
Split is a very underrated movie. McAvoy's performance is the best I've ever seen in an actor.
It's not underrated
It is underrated many don’t talk about how good of an actor he is.. it’s alll omg leo omg blah blah
@@Musicsperfection09 Because Leo has made more than 1 great performance. It's easy to do it once but try doing it over and over again year after year.
I know right! Just from body language alone, you can tell which alter has the light and that is some damn good acting
One of the best acting ive ever seen too
Low budget should be under 1mil. 😂
Absolutely!!!
Made for a mere 7 5 million...
Wut? You guys get lazy?
Time and situation to be compared
It should but a million doesn't go as far as it use to.
Sounds logical but nowadays 1 mil ain't shit. 10 mil ain't shit Sounds crazy
@Valentino V and what about Paranormal Activity?
Paranormal Activity was one of the highest return on investments for a movie. Shoestring budget but big box office sales.
The highest return for a low budget movie however is The Blair Witch Project with a budget of $60,000 USD and making 248.6 million in the box office
Richy Sb Do research. The budget was $15k.
I love Paranormal Activity the first one
ABC ABC Correction $10,000 + $5,000 for marketing
Michael Jay - Value Investing pretty damn good film too.
The original Mad Max made for $400 000 and grossed $100 million according to Wikipedia.
yeah. absolutely. When asked about movies that made millions out of a piece of scrap, I'd first remember "Mad Max", then "Blair-WP" and "Napoleon Dynamite".
Not only did mad max make a ton of money, it launched an awsome series!
I agree with you Stephen Harvey they should have entitled this video 'Low Budget American Movies That Made Millions'.
Is that Australian dollars or U.S dollars
@@jecos1966 that is AU$
Dirty Dancing, made for $6 million, earned $170 million. Also, while slightly outside your range, the original Star Wars was made for only $11 million and earned more than $750 million, way more return on investment than any other Star Wars movie.
Original Star Wars has few releases so it's not fair to include it into this list. And it was also re-edited which increases the production costs.
@@markotodorovic7013 It still was made for $11 million and in its first run had a box office of $265,055,905.
@@daemonblackfyre7171 also inflation since it's a fairly old movie.
@@Ayyyyther It's true. I did state that it was slightly outside their range. It's the overall ROI that impresses me. I brought it up because of that. Even considering the initial box office run as mentioned by @Marko Todorovic above, that's a return of 22 times the budget. If you applied that to Episode 8, with a $300 million budget and worldwide box office of $1.3 billion, it only returned 4 times the budget. Considering that $11 million in 1977 equates to about $43.5 million today, Episode 8 effectively cost almost 7 times as much to make while effectively returning only $200 million more ($265 million (1977) converted to $1.1 billion (2019)). If it had earned at the same rate, Episode 8 would be closer to $6.6 billion. Any studio should hope for such a return on investment. Since inflation turned 1977's $1 into 2019's $4.22, Episode 8 should either have cost much less to make or earned much more than it did. And since breaking the $1 billion mark is the benchmark today (where it used to be $100 million), I'd say $300 million was way too high a price tag.
The same was true for the first Alien, it was made on a tight budget and it showed somewhat on screen (compared with sequels) . Always the same story, you have to be bankable to get the big money.
Surprised Napoleon Dynamite isn't here. Made for $400,000.
Heber Farnsworth 46 mil box office
Heber Farnsworth it didn't do as well at the box office as the ones on the list but it's definitely a good honorable mention 😊
elizabeth perez the difference with this one is that it’s super good
I clicked on it because I thought for sure it would be #1
Wow I loved that movie. Didn't know it was made for only 400,000.
How about 'Clerks'? Made for less than $28,000 and made over $3 million and launched big careers.
Seriously, I expected it to possibly be #1. My car cost more than it took to make that movie and I'm hardly rich. It made over 3 million and spawned a movie universe.
Facts.
you forgot Halloween, which 75+ million on a 300 grand production budget.
Benji Todtenhagen to make it on this video, the budget had to be less than 10 million
@@knowledgeman2741 yeah, it was 300,000 dollars
Friday the 13th is a good choice as well.
@@thomaskaimann6800but i think friday the 13th (2009) is not a great movie..
KnowledgeMan27 stay awake in math dumbass 1,000,000 > (that means greater than) 300,000
My mom and I went to the theaters and the only one we could find to watch was a movie just labeled “Wedding” on the ticket screen. So we just went ahead and went and boy were we happy we did!! We loved it!! At the time it really did feel like we hit a little movie gem.
How is the original Mad Max not on the list at all?
It was made with a budget of US$350,000 and held the record for most profitable film due to making over US$10 million at the box office!
Totally agree that Mad Max should be on here, but I think those were Australian dollars, not US dollars.
Sterling Crockett it was A$400,000 which was approximately US$350,000 at the time.
I knew it was a budget movie, but imagine that, all the cars, the crew, the actors, insane how little money that was all done.
Honestly if you know what you’re looking at it’s not hard to see where they’ve cut costs!
There’s a truck with a fake front on it so they didn’t damage it running over a motorcycle for example.
Plus a lot of the ruined buildings were exactly that, ruined buildings set to be demolished.
Not to mention its cult following and the series that it set up!
I absolutely adore Lost in Translation. I’ve watched that god knows how many times because it’s got such a haunted memories feel to it.
The Blair Witch Project came out when I was in 8th grade, it scared me so much I was afraid to ride my bike past a patch of woods at night.
I was 17 and my bedroom was in our basement. I had to sleep with the light on for a week after watching it 😂
@@kimmywimmy7305 that movie scared me more than any other movie ever has. Paranormal Activity 2 scared the SH*T out of me at the end when the sister showed up and killed her brother in law and sister then took the baby. It was super real looking (just like the Blair witch project) when she walked into the view of the camera that was pointing towards the couch that the husband was sleeping on and she snapped his neck. I had to let the dogs in where I sleep to put me at ease. Lol
Lost in translation was an eye opener for me. Bill Murray played his part as a truth of who he was. What amazed me was Scarlett Johansson actually engaging me in her life and perspective which at my age and gender totally surprised me!
Another exceptionally boring film.
Miranda Brooks that’s cause you’re a moron
Steve P... I agree with you. When Scarlett is in a movie, I usually pass on it, but this had THE MAN in this movie so I had to watch... And SHE really surprised me.
I always liked Scarlett but alot of people seem to hate her acting. Bill Murray's a legend among legends.
The Documentary film 'Supersize Me' had a budget of $65,000 and made $22.2 million at the box office.
Peele deserves all the praise the movie gets. It was an amazing film. Me and my friend loved it. So did everybody else. I still love Peele as a comedy actor but he was a freaking genius with this film.
Robert Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film El Mariachi, which was a commercial success after grossing $2 million against a budget of $7,000... Not to shabby.
Not to mention it was better than it's bigger budget sequels too.
@@catjudo1 Desperado was good, I haven't watched once upon a time in Mexico yet so I can't have an opnion (but to my luck it's on Amazon prime video so I'm gonna watch it and then after watching it I'm going to edit this comment)
Ooooh, Salma Hayek... **drools**
@@catjudo1 I meant once upon a time in Mexico, but honestly once upon a time in America is in my top 10 movies of all time
Whiplash was one of the best low budget movie I have ever seen. Can’t believe you didn’t add it
Whiplash is okay
I'M UPSEEET
I still remember the Blair Witch Project hype. It was unreal. Everyone was talking about it for months and no one could seem to agree on whether the movie was real found footage with some edits throw in or just produced and directed like any other movie. A lot of people actually believed BWP was for real, back then.
I was tricked by friends into believing it was real. I worked long hours back then, and I never heard the hype about it. My friends took me to some small theater and said it was only showing in our town, because it was filmed by college kids from around there. It freaked me TF out, and I couldn't sleep that whole night. They told me the truth the next day.
Memento is one of my most favorite films forever.
Split is also one of my favorite twisted movies so far.
The Room.
You're tearing me apart Lisa!
An honorable mention should go to "Primer." Any film made for $7,000 and ends up in theaters deserves some sort of award.
I love how apparently under 10 million is considered 'low budget' these days lol
Oh for the days when low budget actually meant "camcorders, no special effects, backyards and personal houses, and sneaking around to avoid paying filming licenses' :D
Lol. I feel like at least half of these budgets is just paying the lead actors.
Inflation
No wave movies were low budget. A film with Bill Murray, in Japan isn’t low budget
What about the terminator
Budget:6 million
Box Office: 78 million
That is still a lot of money
Terminator was originally a B Movie
@@kellz3920 still fits the >10m criteria
Hey Sheev, werent you in a movie once? I think that one movie you were in did okay didnt it?
@@deadeyejones6919 no it wasn't
I absolutely lost it laughing when they called paranormal activity "the little ghost movie that could" 😂😂😂😂😂 it was so funny to me for some reason.
The irony is that when shyamalan made glass , people immediate compared it to other superhero movies and started giving their verdict ... It was a good movie considering the tone of movie and budget
Okay paranormal activity budget in comparison to the amount it made is amazing!!!
I remember watching Paranormal Activity. It was in the daytime and the lights were on and even though I knew there was nothing to be scared of, I was still scared shitless and I couldn't finish it.
so glad that you've mentioned Lost in Translation. the uniquely beautiful movie deserves so much recognition & praise.
How in the hell is Clerks not on here? Made for $27,575 and took in $3.2 million.
Scott Lemiere sponsors that's why
3,2 mil aint shit xD
capsTV as a percentage take that number is massive.
Only around 12000%.
Compare that to paranormal activity. That's why.
So compare it to the movie that made number one? Not the other nine or the honorable mentions, just the number one?
Thanks for being a fuckwit, move along.
SAW costed 1.2 mil? and was made in 18 days? dam James, thats impressive
Juno, Unbreakable, and Lost in Translation were my stories. I got the joy of giving them away and seeing their successes.
Hey! I'm early! Nice video! Btw I loved American Graffiti!
The penultimate sword and sandals historical drama "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." They couldn't afford horses for the film but the coconuts were remarkably true to life and well played!
"Rocky" was art.
Missing from the list: That highly intellectual classic --- 'Deep Throat"
Rocky is such a masterpiece!
I knew a guy who thought he missed getting into a 1976 test
screening for Rocky - but an usher came out the side door and politely told him
there were a couple seats left. The “usher”
was Stallone himself doing whatever he could to help.
Working in the business, I can assure that often on low budget films, the producers inflate the reported budget. This is done in order to attract a distribution company who may roll their eyes if they think the budget is too low.
I wonder how many films of ANY budget have had as much influence as "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".
Nia Vardalos, My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I got the DVD and almost memorized the movie in my brain. I loved this one.
Still can't understand how people make such a big deal out of Blair Witch Project it literally put me to sleep, people running around in the woods with shaky cameras horrible overacting. That movie sucked there was nothing that great about it.
rob coffman No-one ever went broke pandering to the lowest common denominator of society.
It actually terrified the heck out of young me when it came out but I can't help feeling part of that was nausea induced by all that shaky-cam on a big screen. Now THAT was horrendous.
I wish I could have fallen asleep... the sound was too loud...
I totally agree. No redeeming qualities.
I feel that way about Paranormal Activity.
Bill Murray kissed a 19-year-old Scarlett Johansson? What a lucky bastard! He was 54 for Christ's sake!
Ageist!
There's a documentary called Harold and Maude...
Just came here for scarlett johanson 😍
Meh
nobody needs to know that you "came" here...
LOL... @Akalink
I was about to comment that 😍
Same 😂😂😍😍
Lesson learnt: If you want to be rich, go for horror movies.
Actually, I run away from horror movies and at 11:37 my heart almost burst lol
Get out is one of the best movies I've ever watched
Several of these movies are on my all-time favorites list. I loved Lost in Translation because there is so little dialogue at times you can almost hear Scarlett Johansen's thoughts. I'm told that the last scene where Bill Murray whispers something in Scarlett's ear was totally improvised. The look in her eyes is absolutely priceless. I'd love to know what he said to her. I'm kind of surprised two other BM films aren't mentioned here: Rushmore and The Life Aquatic. Both are phenomenal examples of what a talented director can accomplish with little money, a good story and great actors.
The lowest budget movie that got the most recognition I believe would be 12 Angry Men.
an all-time classic, i agree, but that all- star cast had to cost some big bucks.
1:00 remember that $750,000 translates to around 4.2 million. 1973-2018
Napoleon Dynamite
That's a good one. At 46 million in Box office receipts, it's not as much as the ones they listed, but it's a good honorable mention.
One of my favorites, thats why i watched this video cause of that movie
Have you read about the production of the film? Wikipedia has a pretty good article on how low budget it was.
Na i saw documentary and commentry on how cheap the movie was and how it started off as a collage video or whatever.
I felt sorry for the main actor, Jon Heder or Hader or whatever his last name is, because they didn't think the film would make that much money, he had a contract done up where he just got a one off payment and no royalties and then the movie made millions.
Rocky is one of the most profitable movies ever with only a 1 million dollar budget.
can't believe this missed El Mariachi $7225 buget 2 million at the box office
Yes, thank God at least someone remembered Robert Rodriguez
2,000,000? All these movies made hundreds of millions.
But a 7k budget into the millions Peacock? You'd think that's a huge profit, don't cha think?
No, not compared to films mentioned in the video.
the movie became the foundation for the Mexico trilogy which had a combined box office gross of $125.6 million. And that does not include all of the dvd sales.
Blair Witch was the craziest to me.. Made for $60,000 pulled in $300,000,000!!!
Get out was the shizz!! All the freaking slavery type Easter eggs in it was just astounding!!! Little Miss Sunshine was really good!! Actually, I really liked all of these movies.. You cannot beat Saw franchise.. All of them are great and gore!! I didn't realize Split was so low budget!! Love it and cannot wait for Glass!
So, no Clerks, no Napoleon Dynamite, no original Halloween, no El Mariachi or Desperado. What kind in of a list is this??
A poorly researched one?
Also...no Night of the Living Dead...Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Clerks, and Last house on the Left...
Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey Exactament!
Napoleon Dynamite was made for $400K and saw $46.1M at the Box Office.
Is incredible the fact that a low budget movie (Rocky) won a best picture Oscar... Really surprised
American Graffitti was partly filmed at my high school and some of the kids were used. Tamalpias High in Mill Valley.
How about Tommy Wiseau's "The Room"? A budget of 1800 and garnered 6 million in return.
When I was 12 my friends dad told me the Blair witch project was real and made us watch it. Didn't find out it was fake till like 2 years later 😂
"One Night in Paris" was a smashing success.
3:14 Blair Witch Project, the most overhyped movie I've seen in theaters where the audience was as completely disappointed as I was at the end.
Good movies on low budget that didn't make much but were great. The Daytrippers (1996) with Tucci and Hope Davis Parker Posey and Liev Schreiber and Campbell Scott. Also Pattti Rocks.
Imagine having to edit a horror movie
I’ll be pissing my pants
American Graffiti is a classic. This only proves that networks and studios don't have a clue what it takes to make a good film. Just because they put up the money they feel they have the right to change anything they want.
James Wan is a mad genius
They never mentioned "Boys don't cry" which budget was 2 million dollars and catapulted Hillary Swank to stardom. She got the Oscar for best actress for this movie.
James McAvoy deserves the Oscar for his performance in split
Sarah Roddey I know I’m mad he doesn’t
Facts
When you put Lost In Translation ..it's just 👌
I hate Blair Witch Project with a passion!!! 😤
i fell asleep 3X when i tried watching that movie ;)
Same
Same. I wanted to sue to get my 2 hours back.
I'm surprised people actually hate this movie
Same here. I remember queueing at the cinema and someone speaking to other people in the line saying 'it's rubbish and not scarey'. I thought he was just showing off. After the film I was like 'yeah he was right'
I was astonished that the movie "Marty" was not here. $340,000.00 to make, brought in over $3 million in 1955/56 dollars and still make money to this day. Won the following Academy Awards too--Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screen Play , Best Director. Won 8 other awards world wide.
James Wan is one of my favorite director. Another is Steven Spielberg.
Mad Max (Original) was made for $400,000 and held the Guinness world record of highest profit film making over $100,000,000 until it was overthrown by Blair Witch.
The Passion of the Christ is the biggest low budget b.o. hit ever being so controversial ,persecuted and with staged terrible reviews before it came out and rated R and in 3 Ancient dialects with subtitles...it cost around 25-30m and gained 600 m World wide 20 times its budget just amazing a huge bet and a personal feat for visionary filmmaker&Hollywood Legend Mel Gibson
"controversial"... means free publicity :)
I agree.same feeling...
Left out Smokey and the Bandit. Hal Needham’s directorial debut that started out as a B movie. Had a minuscule budget of $17.5 million and grossed over $180 million world wide. Two Oscars and ended up being the #2 film of 1977 behind the first Star Wars. I think a film like THAT should be in this list
Where is "Once", made for less than $200,000. Even won an Oscar for Best Original Song.
1. American Graffiti
2. Lost in Translation
3. Annabelle
4. The Blair Witch Project
5. Get Out
6. Juno
7. Little Miss Sunshine
8. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
9. Rocky
10.
Okay, the evil dead should have been on here.
And Halloween. Even Friday The 13th.
Totally!
For sure...I would argue for Night of the Living dead too.
Yeah that absence surprised me.
I can't watch zombie movies now I was scared so bad b y years ago by the evil dead.
When he said Get Out, I literally got goosebumps. Amazing flick
John Carpenter's Halloween should be on the list.
Looking at where the cast of Little Miss Sunshine would wind up today, it's hard to imagine it wouldn't do well.
The Blair Witch project was a waste of money and time.
Lost in Translation is an unforgettable film.
Lost in Translation is a masterpiece and Scarlett's best role ever
it's not about budget it's about amazing stories
"Lost in Translation" is simply a great movie. Watch it. *REALLY* watch it. And when it's over, ask yourself what Bill Murray said in the last line.
Glad you enjoyed it. It was a boring movie.
American Graffiti is actually one of my favorite movies of all time
"Platoon (1986)" was shot by Oliver Stone in The Philippines in two months. I had no idea it was a low budget movie when I saw it and it still doesn't show it after all this time. Nearly every shot in this Vietnam War movie looks epic.
To name a few, (in order of budget):
El Mariachi - Robert Rodriguez, ($9,000 bg - $3,000,000 bo)
Clerks - Kevin "Silent Bob" Smith, ($27,000 bg - $3,000,000 bo).
Mad Max - George Miller, ($400,000 bg - $376,000,00 bo).
Sling Blade, Billy Bob Thornton, ($1,000,000 bg - 24,000,000 bo, plus numerous awards, including an academy award for "best adapted screeenplay" and a nomination for "best actor").
Pulp Fiction - Quintin Tarantino, ($8,500,000 bg - $250,000,000 bo, plus numerous awards, and an astounding twenty six academy award nominations).
Clerks is not on this list? It was made for 27K
I don't think clerks made 100 mil
It made 3.2 million on a 27K budget. That's not including home video. It was the most stolen VHS tape at rental stores too, but that's another category .
Andrew Sep you’re forgetting the dough Miramax out into post production to make it a viable film
I kept waiting for "Once" to show up in your list. It was made for less than $100K ($50K maybe?) and was a box office smash. Then it went on to become a wonderful Broadway musical.
Once:
Budget $150,000
Box Office: $20 million
Lost in Translation is still one of the best movies ever.
How is Clerks not on this list?!?
American Graffiti was recently put in the Library of Congress Collection of Movies reserved only to films that had an enormous cultural impact on society.
10:58 me rolling my eyes the hardest I can.
Ice Cube's Friday deserves at least an honourable mention, probably didnt make as much profit at the box office as some on the vid but made an absolute fortune when released on video & then later on DVD, plus had a multi platinum soundtrack.
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Bruce Lee's Enter The Dragon had a budget of 850,000 dollars, yet has made close to 300 million dollars at the box office. It is still considered to be the greatest martial arts movie of all-time and it is the only martial arts movie to make the American Film Institutes Top 100 movie list. It boggles the mind that this iconic movie was left off this list.