With Hollywood budgets being what they are, a budget under $10 million is practically tiny. Despite this, many films have gone on to make a killing at the box office from budgets that barely scratch the surface of their competition.

So, here are 14 smaller-budget movies that made the big bucks at the box office:

  1. Juno
  2. Mad Max
  3. Paranormal Activity
  4. Little Miss Sunshine
  5. El Mariachi
  6. The Blair Witch Project
  7. Annabelle
  8. Super Size Me
  9. Rocky
  10. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  11. The Devil Inside
  12. Halloween
  13. Moonlight
  14. Napoleon Dynamite
  • @shalafi
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    122 months ago

    This motivated me to, once again, try to find “Colin”. Lowest budget movie ever I would think. 200£? It’s a zombie movie shown from the zombie’s point of view. Seems like it had a great ending, been years since I’ve watched.

    https://archive.org/download/Colin.2008.Vose

    Neither the MP4 nor AVI look great, but seems the MP4 is the winner. Anyone have a better copy?

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPM
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      42 months ago

      It should be streaming on Amazon Prime and the DVD is only a couple of quid (I think I own a copy but would need to check).

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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      2 months ago

      Wasn’t Manos: Hands of Fate made because the creator bet a dude he could make money on a budget of, like, $45? Not $45m but just $45. IIRC, he won the bet; but only barely. It’s a god awful, terrible film.

      I may be thinking of a different movie… 🤔