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	Guardian Unlimited The Guardian British film industry on a roll
		At the other end of the spectrum, Mr Norris has divined a trend towards cheaper British films emerging, just as the Relph report into the cost of domestic production warned Britain's low budget films were not low budget enough.
		After the grimmest of years, the British film industry seems to be turning the corner at last, according to official figures released last night by the Film Council.
		Crucially, spending by the big US studios jumped by £37m from a low of £230.46m in 2001, when threatened actors' and writers' strikes and then September 11, sent shivers through the industry.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,874939,00.html

	zombie films
		Once such action films were impossible for low-budget producers to handle (and the most influential horror films of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Night of the living Dead, the original Dawn of the Dead, Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Carpenter's Halloween -- were all relatively low-budget independent films, except for The Exorcist).
		I suspect that the serendipitous production of a few big-budget zombie films, which therefore received large-scale global release, has renewed the enthusiasm (and opened avenues for funding) for the many independent filmmakers out there; zombies have always had an attraction for upcoming exploitation filmmakers.
		This film is the real thing when it comes to zombies, but Romero expands and develops his earlier themes by depicting a post-apocalyptic world in which humanity is trying vainly to re-define civilisation while the multitudinous dead show the first signs of developing an alternative culture.
	www.roberthood.net /obsesses/zombie_comment.htm (2198 words)

	Fantastic Four (1994 film) - Psychology Central
		The low-budget film was never released, despite the fact that the production had been completed, the marketing campaign and posters created and the Motion Picture Association of America had even given the film a PG label.
		Fantastic Four is an unreleased low-budget feature film which had been intended for a 1994 release.
		The producers would have rushed this film into production, hoping that the makers of a big budget version would not want a cheaper version of the same story to be available immediately before their expensive blockbuster.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Fantastic_Four_(1994_movie) (400 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes: The Vine: Tommy's World (Its a scary place!)
		Also the film has good effects for a low budget piece while the score is also highly effective.
		Now this film is low budget, shot for $7.5million.
		The film is so heavily influenced by Hitchcock, particularly North By North West and while the plot is not the most original, the depth of it is. All the best Sci-fi’s have a bit of depth and multiple layers, Cypher is no exception.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/journal_comments.php?journalid=15513&entryid=194795 (941 words)

	Movie Usenet - Festival for no budget, low budget, shorts and documentaries
		Festival for no budget, low budget, shorts and documentaries
		Movie Usenet - Festival for no budget, low budget, shorts and documentaries
	www.movieusenet.com /thread26532.html (56 words)

	DVD365.net - El Mariachi/Desperado DVD Review
		With Robert Rodriguez's film being on a low budget of $10,000 you can't expect a demo style picture or a soundtrack to rattle the picture frames.
		The film basically centres around the El Mariachi as he is forced to fight for his life as various lowlifes attempt to kill him.
		Your enjoyment of Desperado will be greatly increased as you can see the various transitions from low to big budget picture.
	www.dvd365.net /desperado.htm (568 words)

	Channel 4 Film - Dead End film review, interviews, filmographies and more
		A family finds itself trapped on a road that never ends in this effective low-budget French-US horror film
		A crowd favourite when it was first released to the fans at Montreal's Fantasia Festival in 2003, this low-budget horror movie plays like an old episode of 'The Twilight Zone' crossed with the 'splatstick' of Final Destination 2 and the surreal road movies of David Lynch.
		Clocking in at just 83 minutes with only one location and six characters, it's an impressive example of how horror filmmaking can sometimes revolve around the simplest of premises - here, a family trapped on an isolated, and seemingly endless, stretch of highway.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=125583 (568 words)

	rediff.com, Movies: Soft-porn films add to financial woes of Malayalam filmdom
		Adding to its woes, the Malayalam film world which boasted of class productions, is swept by a wave of low budget soft-porn films now, giving a run to the big banners of serious filmmakers.
		Interestingly, out of the three big hits of the year, one was a soft-porn low budget film!
		Besides, the film set a new wave of soft-porns, which were spending just below Rs one million for each film.
	www.rediff.com /movies/2001/jan/11mallu.htm (568 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Guerilla Film Maker's Handbook: Books
		Indie filmmakers Chris Jones and Genevieve Jolliffe are quite remarkable, not only for their achievements in the film industry but also for this wonderful compendium of how-tos and how-not-tos relating to the world of low-budget filmmaking.
		A guide to low-budget moviemaking in the UK and around the world.
		these are often in occordance to the writer's bias on their beloved action films using a quote by samuel goldwyn that surely could be used as an attack on guerilla filmaking(!): 'picture are for entertainment, message should be delivered by western union'.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0826447139 (1206 words)

	British Independent Film Awards - BIFA
		In 2003 the British Independent Film Awards received two nominations at the Hollis Sponsorship Awards for Best First time Sponsorship and Best Low Budget Sponsorship and won the accolade of Best Low-Budget Sponsorship.
		The film submission deadline for BIFA 2003 is 22 August 2003, so you still have time to submit your film here.
		Created in 1998, The British Independent Film Awards set out to celebrate merit and achievement in independently funded British filmmaking, to honour new talent, and to promote British films and filmmaking to a wider public.
	www.bifa.org.uk (173 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook (All New American Edition)
		My problem with the book is that it is mostly composed of interviews with film industry workers, who feel the need to justify themselves, with the result that you really don't get the sense that it's possible to pull off an ultra-low budget film.
		The interviews are with working professionals, the majority of whom started out on guerilla films and who talk about the differences between the low budget guerilla movies and the big Hollywood blockbusters that many work on today.
		THIS IS NOT A GUERILLA FILM BOOK WHERE IT TEACHES YOU HOW TO SHOOT A FILM FOR $50 AND AvOIDING GETTING ARRESTED.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0826414648?v=glance (173 words)

	Wired News: Cult Film Company Goes Digital
		This year, Kaufman's Hollywood on the Hudson film company is making a tech transition from low-budget film productions to, well, low-budget digital productions.
		By re-shooting old scenes and filming new material with a digital camera, Kaufman's crew was able to salvage two half-finished films from the scrap heap.
		Since many of Troma's pictures are of straight-to-video quality, the company saves $300,000 per movie print by using digital film, then transferring the final cut directly to a DVD.
	www.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,52297,00.html (701 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Phantom Empire at Epinions.com
		The Phantom Empire is a film directed by low budget filmmaker Fred Olen Ray who is best known for T & A campy fun sci-fi horrorish films.
		Back in the day (pre-Blockbuster) people were able to find small little video chain outlets that carried fun, low-budget films on VHS.
		Mostly I am stuck purchasing films I have never seen, but have an interest in (be it the actor, or director, etc.).
	www.epinions.com /content_24507420292 (1102 words)

	Dark Star
		The film is quite low budget, but Carpenter is able to make the low budget work into the plot by making fun of it.
		Dark Star is quite a fun and different film for John Carpenter.
		The end of the film was almost certainly inspired by and adapted from Ray Bradbury's sci-fi short story "Kaleidoscope." Bradbury's story is about a group of rocket men floating away from each other in space after their ship has exploded.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/A-D/dark_star.htm (572 words)

	1914
		More specifically, however, the "sword and sandal" film genre usually refers to a low-budget Italian movie on a gladiatorial or mythological subject; for the genre occupied much of the less pretentious segment of Italy's movie industry before the invention of the spaghetti western.
		This spawned the 1960 sequel Hercules Unchained, among literally dozens of low-budget imitations starring other bodybuilder stars such as Reg Park or Alan Steele.
		Sword and sandal films are a cinematic genre of adventure or fantasy films that have subjects set in Biblical or classical antiquity, often with contrived plots based very loosely on mythology or history.
	www.jahsonic.com /1914.html (784 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film Reviews The Last Broadcast
		The Last Broadcast was made on a low budget, allegedly around $10,000, is very like The Blair Witch Project and was made a little further north on the Atlantic seaboard at much the same time.
		The Last Broadcast is an intriguing and fairly convincing examination of the seedy world of low-budget video and the strange characters that gather there.
		A couple of video geeks (played by the film's co-directors Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler) running a failing cable access TV station are killed along with a sound engineer while making an exploitative programme about a mysterious Jersey Devil in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
	film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Critic_Review/Observer_review/0,4267,152689,00.html (171 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Last Broadcast at Epinions.com
		decent performances, and a nice low-budget documentary feel make this film an entertaining hour and a half
		Since they’re working in this low-budget arena, they get away with using a lot of cheesy swirl cuts, fades, and dissolves to get them from one scene to the next.
		Even worse is that in the final scenes, the film breaks with the first person documentary style and features a more omniscient perspective, with an untethered camera capturing the footage when there’s clearly no one involved with the story who could be working it.
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-3ABA-91F7CB6-3960CA86-prod2 (1116 words)

	Red Eye :: Film Review :: ABC Tasmania
		Red Eye is, in a way, a return to Craven’s low budget days, a small scale thriller that owes more to Hitchcock than to the horror tradition and one that feels remarkably restrained.
		In fact, he began as a rather scholarly and bohemian writer/director whose early moves like the much imitated Hills Have Eyes (1977) have become international cult movies not least because of their low budget high slasher quotient and a leavening of Craven’s trademark black humour.
		Underdeveloped as it is, Red Eye is still a good oldfashioned thriller, elegantly wrought and delightfully short at well under two hours (there should be an extra gold star for movies that don’t wildly overstay their welcome!).
	www.abc.net.au /tasmania/stories/s1456187.htm (360 words)

	Bad Girls From Mars Review
		It centers around a low budget film studio and they are shooting a movie called Bad Girls From Mars.
		It's the story of a low budget film studio shooting a movie called Bad Girls From Mars, but all of the lead actresses keep getting killed.
		On the bright side, this ultra-cheapie was shot by Fred Olen Ray, so it may be entertaining as well.
	home.paonline.com /mikehoov/HOBBIES/MOVIES/VHS/VHS_Reviews/Bad_Girls_From_Mars.htm (327 words)

	Fantastic Four (1994 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The low-budget film was never released, despite the fact that the production had been completed, the marketing campaign and posters created and the Motion Picture Association of America had even given the film a PG label.
		Fantastic Four is an unreleased low-budget feature film which had been intended for a 1994 release.
		The film was based on the popular comic book by Marvel Comics and featured the origin of the Fantastic Four and their first battle with the evil Doctor Doom and a mysterious Mole Man creature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fantastic_Four_(1994_movie) (395 words)

	Mood Music (Cue Music/Production Music) Composers
		Later he was to write scores for industrial films (for example, a promotional film called "Dodge '56", and a training film called "Narcotics", used to train police forces), as well as later low-budget horror and science fiction films.
		The MUTEL library cues he wrote were tracked into many of the early low-budget filmed TV series which were produced at Hal Roach Studios and others, including "The Adventures of Superman."
		Film music offerred opportunities for up-and-coming British composers like Williams who seemed to be at the right place at the right time.
	www.classicthemes.com /moodComposers.html (9852 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Roman Polanski - 2003 [1962] - Knife in the Water (Nóz w wodzie) Movies Review
		It is an atmospheric, low-budget film of a simple story, not comparable to the complexities of Chinatown, Macbeth, or Tess, etc. And for a three-character drama of shifting power relations, Polanski's film of Ariel Dorfman's play Death and the Maiden is more consequential and accomplished (with particularly memorable performances by Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley).
		Roman Polanski's first feature-length film, which is also his only Polish feature film, is a fairly minimalist (low-budget) portrayal of three people that takes place mostly on a sailboat.
		Oddly, the insert brochure does not list them (only the chapters of the feature film; there is also an essay by Peter Cowie).
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10005303 (9852 words)

	Carnival of Souls at Brian's Drive-In Theater
		Harvey shot this film on 16 mm stock, which was then blown up to 35 mm for theatrical exhibition.
		Screenwriter John Clifford's premise of Carnival of Souls, about a woman caught between life and death, was pretty heady stuff for a low-budget early 1960s movie.
		Harvey even appears in the film as one of the lost souls; he's the very first ghoul that Candace Hilligoss sees as she's driving at night.
	www.briansdriveintheater.com /carnival.html (981 words)

	H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds DVD Reviewed on RevolutionHomeTheater.com
		The low budget of this film eliminates the scenes of the protagonist’s brother in London; there are no vast landscapes of ruined buildings, no ships blown up by the war machines.
		This low-budget, earnest outing has a slightly different title: “H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds” and a contemporary setting, but it, too, is based reasonably closely on the great old novel.
		David Michael Latt, the director of this film, is one of their busiest partners.
	www.modernhometheater.com /dvd/revs/hgwow.html (1101 words)

	0725
		Unlike its predecessor, BASKET CASE 2 is low budget, but not shoestring budget, and so the unsuspecting might not realize that deep down it's still a jokey continuation of the original; although the Phantom greatly enjoyed the film, he doesn't think that it could stand well on its own.
		BASKET CASE was notable for being shot on a shoestring budget (the Phantom thinks it was transferred from 16mm, but he's not sure) and yet not being at all compromised by a lack of special-effects funds.
		Lines: 177 Approved: ecl@cbnewsj.att.com BASKET CASE 2 A review in the public domain by The Phantom (baumgart@esquire.dpw.com) In his previous review (of NIGHTBREED), the Phantom's lead paragraph was only slightly less self-referential than this one is, but there he did it only because he admires style over substance in all things, his own reviews included.
	www.cc.gatech.edu /computing/classes/AY2005/cs6300_fall/projects/project5/movies/07/0725 (1724 words)

	In Justice Reviewed by John W. Plummer
		In Justice is low budget film without the budget film look which recently saw in its World Premiere at the Festival of Independents a the 13th annual Philadelphia Film Festival.
		Despite having been shot in an astounding 14 days and nights, the locations and advance planning were well thought out, so the film has a superior production look to films with many times its budget.
		What this film also demonstrates is the conviction of the filmmakers outweighing the forces against its being made, and that the indy film movement is very much alive in Philly.
	www.circlemagazine.com /issuethirty/injustice.html (398 words)

	Horror Diva - Fun, intelligent, thought provoking, and challenging examination of horror and the uncanny in film and popular culture.
		The road through the history of low-budget, short, independent film and video is paved with the early attempts and experiments of up-and-coming filmmakers.
		Generally, film in itself, is a prohibitive medium for making activist art (due largely to constraints of budget and distribution).
		Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis (1926) is actively engaged in the negotiation of numerous cultural discourses – Socialism, class struggle, Capitalism, and technology… - it is, however, the film’s engagement in gender discourses that, I believe, have the greatest consequences for the emerging sphere of feminist film and cultural theory...
	www.horrordiva.com /new/film.php (398 words)

	Images - A Scandal in Paris
		While Sirk made several more independent or low-budget films before moving into the big brassy melodramas for which he’s most famous, this was in a real sense his European swan song, the last time he would interpret his own past in a film.
		The comedy of the film ranges from the high- to the lowbrow, from Vidocq’s unerring wit and the constant betrayals and forgiveness, to the antics of "Satan the Monkey" and the Old World low jinks of Emile’s family of comic cutthroats and thieves.
		Sirk’s staging of the film’s one musical number is startling in its expressionism: Landis is seen in silhouette behind a large round screen, which she sets on fire.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue09/reviews/scandalparis/text.htm (398 words)

	Top 100 Movie Lists - Psycho
		Psycho was a major change for Hitchcock (North by Northwest, Rear Window) at the time because it was shot with an unusually low budget ($800,000) by Hitch standards.
		Shooting the film in black and white helped keep the film within the targeted budget, but I've read that "the main reason that Hitchcock wanted to shoot Psycho in black and white was that he felt it would be too gory in Technicolor." The movie broke new ground regarding many different taboos.
		When the one well-known actress (Janet Leigh) gets murdered early into the film, the audience is sent into a state of shock, and must then seek a relatively unknown character to follow.
	www.geocities.com /aaronbcaldwell/Psycho.html (398 words)

	Cypher London Movie Review
		In short, Cypher, like Cube, is an impressive low-budget feature that has Future Cult Movie written all over it.
		For his second feature, Cypher, he continues to explore themes of reality, identity and manipulation and the result is an intriguing, twist-laden sci-fi thriller that’s a little bit like a micro-budget Matrix meets James Bond.
		Cypher is an enjoyably twisty tale with its sense of futuristic unreality heightened considerably by desaturated photography courtesy of cinematographer Derek Rogers.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /review_1770.html (387 words)

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