22 Movies That Rocked Their Shoestring Budgets

‘12 Angry Men’ had a budget of $300,000

Ask any broke film student — it’s hard to make any kind of good movie when you have no money. Between talent, equipment and miscellaneous agencies and global powers to pay off, even the brightest vision is nearly impossible to execute without a small fortune to put behind it. That’s what makes it all the more impressive when it’s pulled off. It’s rare, but it does happen.

“I personally nominate The Man From Earth,” user emissaryofwinds told r/AskReddit. “Based on a screenplay by Jerome Bixby, who wrote episodes of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone, it’s riveting from beginning to end, even though it’s pretty much just dialogue. If you can, try to go into it without knowing the plot.”

They then asked, “What movie turned out fantastic despite a small budget?” Here’s how their fellow Redditors answered…

Mad Max

El Mariachi

Primer

Coherence

Once

12 Angry Men

Casablanca

Moon

The Raid: Redemption

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Dog Soldiers

Monsters

The Castle

Chronicle

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

The Terminator

The Evil Dead

The Blair Witch Project

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Napoleon Dynamite

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