What are the weird, low budget movies you’ve been enjoying lately?

  • Knickknack@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Oh man here I come to plug my favorite low budget or indy-ish sci-fi movies!

    First, Coherence (2013). This movie was quite low budget but doesn’t feel like it because the story is so engaging. The hours I spent reading about this movie, reviewing timelines, etc after I watched it… It’s a great film and the discussions and theories about it are exactly the type of rabbit hole I love.

    Resolution (2012) has a unique and interesting concept, but I mention it mostly because it is low budget and related to The Endless (2018) which is pushing the definition of low budget but is phenomenal. The story lines overlap and Resolution came out first, but I watched The Endless before I’d ever heard of Resolution and I think I prefer that watch order, honestly. Both are great films though and worth the watch if you’re interested in cosmic horror/sci-fi type stories.

    • Robtheverb13@lemmy.one
      1·
      2 years ago

      Coherence is fantastic. If this thread wasn’t about low budget movies, but instead about some of the best mind bending movies, this would probably still be my answer. If you haven’t seen it, I’d certainly recommend checking it out.

  • bbbhltz@beehaw.org
    8·
    2 years ago

    Not super low budget but there is something about Run Lola Run that makes it feel low budget and there are some weird parts to it as well.

    • Mallard@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      An excellent summary. This was my answer too.

      Low budget time travel is almost better than high budget time travel.

  • DJDarren@beehaw.orgOP
    3·
    2 years ago

    I finally got around to watching Brian and Charles last night, and can’t get over how good it was.

    But despite coming out almost a year ago, I only know of one other person who’s seen it, and he’s the one that recommended it to me.

  • UrLogicFails@beehaw.org
    3·
    2 years ago

    I 100% recommend watching any movie made by Neil Breen, if you are looking for a bizarre low-budget movie. I remember watching Fateful Findings a few years ago and every scene from it felt so surreal (but unintentionally so). The final scene blew my mind that such a movie could even exist.

  • iNeedScissors67@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    One of my favorite movies was lowest of the low in terms of budget lol. It is called Beer Money and I think it was a USA Original back when I was in high school. It took me YEARS to find a file of it online and now it’s on my Plex server and I keep a copy on a USB stick just in case. It sucks and it’s hilarious.

      • roofuskit@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        Neither of those films are anywhere near low budget. Super 8 was a CGI blockbuster film. Brazil cost $15MM in 1985. Back to the future came out that same year and had a budget of $19MM, ET had a LOWER budget than Brazil. Both are great films, neither are low budget.

  • bui@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 years ago

    I just watched Follow Her. It’s not really low budget but more a B Grade thriller. But I really enjoyed it. Good story, a few twists. I won’t say any more in case of spoilers.

  • GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    We recently watched Hellbenders (2021). Not your average horror flick, but definitely worth a watch and they really make the most out of their tiny budget.

  • roofuskit@kbin.social
    0·
    2 years ago

    Monsters (2010) is one of my favorite low budget films. Shot for half a million. Lots and lots of the things shot on location were later modified in post, like signage changed to have warnings about the alien quarantine zone.

    “NASA discovered a few years ago the real possibility of alien life and consequently a probe was set up and launched in order to collect sample. After crashing during the re-entry over Central America, new life forms began to appear and spread rapidly. Half of Mexico is quarantined as an infected zone. In this context we follow the story of a US journalist escorting his bosses’s daughter through this area to the United States.”