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HORROR ON A SHOESTRING
My all-time favorite holiday of the year is coming up, so you’ll be seeing a few related posts, starting with some nifty trivia from Neatorama on three classic horror films: Night Of The Living Dead, Halloween, and The Exorcist.
I love all three films: you’ve got zombies, you’ve got John Carpenter and you’ve got Max von Sydow fighting Pazuzu. But here’s the thing I wanted to call to yr attention:
Compare that to, say, Michael Bay’s Transformers ($150 million) or Pirates Of The Caribbean At World’s End ($300 million, which is also reportedly the budget for the Transformers sequel). Yr opinions of those films may vary, and granted, both ended up making a profit. But that’s not the point.
The point is: you can make an enduring classic film for chump change. Just ask Robert Rodriguez if you don’t believe me. For what Hollywood spends on movies these days, we could have established a Mars colony by now. Or at at least covered the cost of the AIG bailout.
But then I love B movies, so I would say that, wouldn’t I?
FUN FACT: The Exorcist (budget: $12 million) is, for my money, the scariest movie ever made. Expect a list soon.
Cheap thrills,
This is dF
I love all three films: you’ve got zombies, you’ve got John Carpenter and you’ve got Max von Sydow fighting Pazuzu. But here’s the thing I wanted to call to yr attention:
- Night Of The Living Dead budget: $114,000
- Halloween budget: $325,000
Compare that to, say, Michael Bay’s Transformers ($150 million) or Pirates Of The Caribbean At World’s End ($300 million, which is also reportedly the budget for the Transformers sequel). Yr opinions of those films may vary, and granted, both ended up making a profit. But that’s not the point.
The point is: you can make an enduring classic film for chump change. Just ask Robert Rodriguez if you don’t believe me. For what Hollywood spends on movies these days, we could have established a Mars colony by now. Or at at least covered the cost of the AIG bailout.
But then I love B movies, so I would say that, wouldn’t I?
FUN FACT: The Exorcist (budget: $12 million) is, for my money, the scariest movie ever made. Expect a list soon.
Cheap thrills,
This is dF
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You are the second person on my friends list to post something like this in the last 24 hours.
For what it's worth, I agree 100%. Those are some of my favourite films.
-- JF
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By the way, "Evil Dead" was made for $375,000. And it kicks a snow leopard's ass.
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It was his top 10 horror films. If you combine his list with the three you've mentioned and jigger AUDITION in there somewhere you've pretty much got my top 10.
-- JF
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In any case, horror movie is never the blockbuster genre which is part of its charm. Even when it's bad, at least you'd think - that's a less costly mistake.
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Okay, I don't really. But suffice to say that very, VERY few "scary" movies actually scare me. This one does. It still does, actually.
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