The Evil Dead & 9 Other Great LowBudget Horror Movies
The Evil Dead & 9 Other Great Low-Budget Horror Movies
Not every horror movie needs a blockbuster budget. Some of the biggest classics, like The Evil Dead and Halloween, thrived on telling a great story.
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Big budgets come in handy when horror filmmakers need gallons of fake blood and realistic makeup effects, but a director doesn’t need a lot of money to make a great movie. The elements that really make a horror movie work — palpable tension, concise exposition, claustrophobic camerawork, etc. — are all free of charge in the hands of a visionary director.
Sam Raimi proved this with his own low-budget horror gem, The Evil Dead, which he produced independently for somewhere between $350,000 and $400,000. The movie ended up launching a lucrative horror franchise, as well as the careers of both Raimi and Bruce Campbell.
10 The Evil Dead (1981)
Sam Raimi singlehandedly created the trope of the cabin in the woods with his low-budget directorial debut The Evil Dead, in which a group of friends drives out to stay in a dusty old cabin in the middle of nowhere, find a supernatural book, and accidentally awaken the spirits of the dead.
Despite Raimi’s limited resources, the special effects hold up surprisingly well today. The makeup effects are obviously homemade, but they still pack a fright.
9 Saw (2004)
Most of James Wan’s Saw takes place in a single bathroom where two strangers have woken up with their limbs handcuffed to some pipes. There’s a dead body between them — or so it seems — and a hacksaw they can use to free themselves.
While the killer tries to get his hostages to play a sadistic game, a pair of detectives attempt to track him down in time to save his latest victims.
8 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
The mother of all cult classics, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is an homage to B-movies of every kind that stars Tim Curry as the iconic Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
Shot on a budget of just $1.4 million, The Rocky Horror Picture Show ended up being the gift that keeps on giving, as it continues to gross a ton of money from re-releases.
7 Open Water (2003)
Ever since Jaws became the highest-grossing movie of all time, there have been a bunch of shark-based thrillers trying to jump on the bandwagon and replicate its success.
One of the more memorable and realistic of the lot is Open Water, inspired by the true story of a pair of tourists who got left in the middle of shark-infested waters by a scuba-diving group and got slowly eaten alive over the next couple of days.
6 Evil Dead II (1987)
After Sam Raimi made one Evil Dead movie on a low budget in 1981, he made the second one on a similarly low budget in 1987. Evil Dead II is essentially a remake of the original with its genre changed to wacky slapstick comedy.
The sequel was produced at the behest of Stephen King, who was such a big fan of the original that he implored Dino De Laurentiis to provide Raimi with funding for a follow-up.
5 Halloween (1978)
John Carpenter set the template for the modern slasher with Halloween. Previous movies like Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre had laid the groundwork for the genre, but Carpenter’s movie became a blueprint for horror filmmakers with a shoestring budget who wanted a sure-fire hit that could be produced on the cheap.
Shot for around $325,000, Halloween stars Jamie Lee Curtis as babysitter Laurie Strode, who contends with murderous escaped mental patient Michael Myers on one fateful Halloween night.
4 Friday The 13th (1980)
One of the first filmmakers to take advantage of the template laid out by Carpenter in Halloween was Sean S. Cunningham, who has openly admitted to the heavy influence that Halloween had on Friday the 13th.
Filmed around an abandoned summer camp for $550,000, Friday the 13th distinguishes itself with the surprising twist that reveals who the real killer is.
3 Get Out (2017)
While Get Out’s Jordan Peele is now recognized as one of horror cinema’s most visionary filmmakers, the prospect of a horror movie directed by one half of Key & Peele sounded like it could go terribly wrong when it was first announced.
Of course, Peele’s debut feature ended up being a global phenomenon that reinvigorated discussions about race. It turned over a huge profit, as it raked in over $250 million at the worldwide box office on a budget of just $4.5 million.
2 Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead ended up spawning a lucrative franchise and an entire subgenre of horror. Romero’s movie introduced the world to the modern zombie: the dawdling, flesh-eating undead.
Romero drew on his experiences making commercials to get Night of the Living Dead made on a budget of $114,000. The cast and crew brought in friends and relatives to play zombies.
1 Psycho (1960)
Studios weren’t exactly clamoring to give Alfred Hitchcock a bunch of money to make a black-and-white movie about a sadistic serial killer with mommy issues who kills the biggest star on the marquee right in the middle of the story, so Hitchcock had to finance Psycho largely out of his own pocket.
More than 60 years later, Psycho remains a devilishly effective thriller. The midpoint shower murder and the harrowing final twist still have the ability to shock new viewers.
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