Not exact matches
Like The Blair Witch Project ten years before it, the shoestring -
budgeted 2009 found footage
horror film came
just at the right time, captured the public's attention, and delivered an ungodly profit - to - cost ratio.
Horror films, specifically found - footage
films, have excelled at their low
budget qualities but this one
just feels like it is trying to be Hollywood and isn't.
With a
budget of
just $ 5 million and a box office gross close to 40 times that, allegorical
horror film Get Out has emerged as 2017's biggest surprise hit.
And they ramp up in an intelligent way, as the
film goes from zero -
budget horror («I
just saw something terrible offscreen» tactics, essentially) to a much more sophisticated level of world - rebuilding.