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.
Basically, these movies are doing what Hollywood should be doing. Make many smaller budget films rather than a handful of tent pole movies. Then, when one of those films hits it big, make a sequel or hire the same team to make a new film with a bigger budget. This is what Hollywood used to do for a good 80 years. But now they have the mindset that more expensive = better. Despite how many times that has failed.
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.
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.
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
@@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
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.
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.
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 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
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.
How was Juno an "Original Screenplay"? It's about as original as the Hunger Games. It straight up copied the premise and even the name of the movie from the Korean film Jenny Juno that came out just a few years earlier. But I guess asian films don't count for Hollywood. Figures.
How is the Kim Kardashian “movie” not on here?? iPhones cost about $500 at the time made, and allowed the entire family to be multi millionaires and one a billionaire. 🤷🏻♂️
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.
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)
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
The worst ones are their "things that don't make sense about........" that every single viewer can actually point out was explained or easily figured out in the film.
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 .
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'
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.
Mad Max was quite low budget and made a big profit. It even made more money than Star Wars in Australia. Also you forgotten John Carpenter's Halloween made millions.
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.
Well I have four people who agree with me and as the FCC puts it one person really equals a billions people so 4 billion people agree with me so ready to riot?
...$10 million is "low budget"??? O_O WTH?!?!? This list is mostly "big budgeted" stuff to us. Low budget is definitely a less than $1 mil in my book. I rolled my eyes at the movies made with more than $1 million, not the ones under.
Depends on 2 things, whether you saw it years after release having seen more newer aged horrors to now compare it to, and were probably not immersed in it's marketing campaign, the actors were not seen for months until after release and questions were even being asked as to whether they were unharmed, some thought it was of course more terrifying because they assumed it may have been a doco, it wasn't until the actors stepped back into the spot light that all the hype started to die down, it did spawn the whole "found footage" genre as well
I just start watching it in the minute of 0:01 and I can guess that it must have the SAW movie in the description too. Let’s see. I’ll edit it after done watching to say am I right or wrong. 9:03 ohh yeah!! I knew it!! Don’t care if you don’t believe it🙄
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.
He forgot the greatest sleeper hit in history. Star Wars. Originally budgeted for 3.25 million as a welcome aboard present for Alan Ladd Jr. when he was hired as president of 20th Century Fox. George Lucas went over budget and the board of Fox was going to shut him down. Ladd threaten to quit if they did. Lucas finally brought it in for 7.5 million. Last I looked I think that the original movie has so for earned close to a billion so far.
El Mariachi didn't really make all that much money. In total, they spent about $7,000. But, to get it to main stream audiences, post production costs were around $200,000. It only made about $2,000,000. Total. A good sum of money but not really worthy of this list. El Mariachi's true success story was not its monetary gain, but bringing Robert Rodriguez to stardom which of course, gave us other great films.
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?
Napoleon Dynamite should be on there. It's budget was somewhere around $100,000 and made multi millions.
Napoleon dynamite?
Why isn't Monthy Python and the holy grail on the list? that one costed about 230 thousand british pounds
Basically, these movies are doing what Hollywood should be doing. Make many smaller budget films rather than a handful of tent pole movies. Then, when one of those films hits it big, make a sequel or hire the same team to make a new film with a bigger budget. This is what Hollywood used to do for a good 80 years. But now they have the mindset that more expensive = better. Despite how many times that has failed.
Easy Rider should be right up near the top of this list. Fifty years ago it cost less than $400,000 to make and earned $60m.
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
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?
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
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 $100 million according to Wikipedia.
yeah. absolutely. When asked about movies that made millions out of a piece of scrap, I'd first remember "Mad Max", then "Blair-WP" and "Napoleon Dynamite".
Not only did mad max make a ton of money, it launched an awsome series!
I agree with you Stephen Harvey they should have entitled this video 'Low Budget American Movies That Made Millions'.
Is that Australian dollars or U.S dollars
@@jecos1966 that is AU$
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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
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...
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Missing from the list: That highly intellectual classic --- 'Deep Throat"
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
The Documentary film 'Supersize Me' had a budget of $65,000 and made $22.2 million at the box office.
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
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.
How was Juno an "Original Screenplay"? It's about as original as the Hunger Games. It straight up copied the premise and even the name of the movie from the Korean film Jenny Juno that came out just a few years earlier. But I guess asian films don't count for Hollywood. Figures.
I did not know that. That Diablo Cody is a sly one
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.
How is the Kim Kardashian “movie” not on here?? iPhones cost about $500 at the time made, and allowed the entire family to be multi millionaires and one a billionaire. 🤷🏻♂️
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.
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
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 😂
The Room.
You're tearing me apart Lisa!
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.
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.
I wonder how many films of ANY budget have had as much influence as "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".
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...
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!
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!
Scarlet johansn,,,,, she is loveeeeeeeee
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just came here for scarlett johanson 😍
Meh
nobody needs to know that you "came" here...
LOL... @Akalink
I was about to comment that 😍
Same 😂😂😍😍
An honorable mention should go to "Primer." Any film made for $7,000 and ends up in theaters deserves some sort of award.
"Rocky" was art.
Rocky is one of the most profitable movies ever with only a 1 million dollar budget.
The more I watch loopers Top 10 videos the more I realize how bs and opinion based the lists are, y’all miss so much.
Cinefix is the best channel when it comes to listing movies.
The worst ones are their "things that don't make sense about........" that every single viewer can actually point out was explained or easily figured out in the film.
How about Tommy Wiseau's "The Room"? A budget of 1800 and garnered 6 million in return.
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
How about avengers endgame? It made 2.7 billion for its budget of 350 million $😂😂😂😂😂
Clerks? If I remember right it was made for 25000
[ithy] $27,000
Memento is one of my most favorite films forever.
Split is also one of my favorite twisted movies so far.
1:00 remember that $750,000 translates to around 4.2 million. 1973-2018
Get out is one of the best movies I've ever watched
John Carpenter's Halloween should be on the list.
Imagine having to edit a horror movie
I’ll be pissing my pants
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'
Okay paranormal activity budget in comparison to the amount it made is amazing!!!
How about movies produced by BRAZZERS!! 😊😁
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.
Rocky is such a masterpiece!
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.
So?
Mad Max was quite low budget and made a big profit. It even made more money than Star Wars in Australia. Also you forgotten John Carpenter's Halloween made millions.
Looper where is Napoleon Dynamite, I think it spent less than any of these other moivies
LUCY made over $400 million on a $40 million budget.
ZoeZoe they were listing under 10 million Lucy was not low budget movie.
Is incredible the fact that a low budget movie (Rocky) won a best picture Oscar... Really surprised
Where is "Once", made for less than $200,000. Even won an Oscar for Best Original Song.
The Blair Witch project was a waste of money and time.
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.
James Wan is one of my favorite director. Another is Steven Spielberg.
Where’s Halloween??
*when? in october
Where is clerks
Drhotbananastud right!?
I agree! Snoogans 🤘
I clicked on this video only to see if Clerks was listed here. It should have been!
clerks made 3 million at the box office they were looking for 50 milion+
Well I have four people who agree with me and as the FCC puts it one person really equals a billions people so 4 billion people agree with me so ready to riot?
...$10 million is "low budget"??? O_O WTH?!?!? This list is mostly "big budgeted" stuff to us. Low budget is definitely a less than $1 mil in my book. I rolled my eyes at the movies made with more than $1 million, not the ones under.
James Wan is a mad genius
pssst
I would have put Clerks..
David Garcia me too man
Once:
Budget $150,000
Box Office: $20 million
The blair witch project was the worst horror id ever seen and most overrated
Micheal Nichols I hated that movie.
Missy 13 hate it or love it, it still banked
It was sooooo good sorry completely disagree.
Depends on 2 things, whether you saw it years after release having seen more newer aged horrors to now compare it to, and were probably not immersed in it's marketing campaign, the actors were not seen for months until after release and questions were even being asked as to whether they were unharmed, some thought it was of course more terrifying because they assumed it may have been a doco, it wasn't until the actors stepped back into the spot light that all the hype started to die down, it did spawn the whole "found footage" genre as well
I saw it that year when it was out on VHS. Really creeps me out.
WOIIIIIIIII 👌everyone bringing their A game
Kbitch Kal b
James McAvoy deserves the Oscar for his performance in split
Sarah Roddey I know I’m mad he doesn’t
Facts
What about CLERKS???
its profits were not at the same magnitude
10:58 me rolling my eyes the hardest I can.
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
Less than 10M, is low budget? For real?
Yes, it is. For the industry definition. It is how the studios see things.
"One Night in Paris" was a smashing success.
I just start watching it in the minute of 0:01 and I can guess that it must have the SAW movie in the description too.
Let’s see.
I’ll edit it after done watching to say am I right or wrong.
9:03 ohh yeah!! I knew it!!
Don’t care if you don’t believe it🙄
Hey! I'm early! Nice video! Btw I loved American Graffiti!
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.
You didn't add Clerks?
He forgot the greatest sleeper hit in history. Star Wars. Originally budgeted for 3.25 million as a welcome aboard present for Alan Ladd Jr. when he was hired as president of 20th Century Fox. George Lucas went over budget and the board of Fox was going to shut him down. Ladd threaten to quit if they did. Lucas finally brought it in for 7.5 million. Last I looked I think that the original movie has so for earned close to a billion so far.
"The found footage horror film The Blair Witch Project wasn't just a cultural phenomenon, it was also" AWFUL!
Adam Cuthbert i read that while he said it
So agree I played snake on my phone it was that bad
Whatever. It plain sucked. The "found footage" style is annoying.
It was annoying the first time. Oh, yeah, I'm 61.
that's why it was annoying! i'm 60!!
Looking at where the cast of Little Miss Sunshine would wind up today, it's hard to imagine it wouldn't do well.
Why aren't HALLOWEEN and EL MARIACHI anywhere here???
El Mariachi didn't really make all that much money. In total, they spent about $7,000. But, to get it to main stream audiences, post production costs were around $200,000. It only made about $2,000,000. Total. A good sum of money but not really worthy of this list. El Mariachi's true success story was not its monetary gain, but bringing Robert Rodriguez to stardom which of course, gave us other great films.
Deadpool. 55 million budget for the original. Something like 900 million gross. Not a bad ROI on 55 million