Well, the good news (sort of) is that the meal program is federally funded and therefore escapes
the budget horror going on in TX right now.
Not exact matches
And it all
goes downhill from there: slightly over
budget, I'm so frazzled over the price of arugula that I forget to buy lemons for my dressing and return home frantic, unprepared, and much to my type - A
horror, irreconcilably late.
But two years have passed since the shuddering
horrors of 2012, when virtually everything that could have
gone wrong with his
Budget statement duly did so.
Another film that
went on to have it's own franchise pushed the boundaries of
horror, made on a shoestring
budget and executed in the most simplest of terms was Saw.
Some employees of an international arms dealer
go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly
budgeted dark comedy /
horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).
This low -
budget horror film produced by Roger Corman and directed by Coppola before he
went on the become a famous filmmaker has evident shades of Psycho but is not even frightening, with a lame, uneven plot in which nothing much really happens.
When I first saw the trailer for Get Out, I thought it was
going to be another stupid low -
budget horror movie.
Insidious was one of the early signs that Blumhouse's strategy of turning modestly
budgeted horror movies into box office hits would be viable
going forward.
Q: With this movie, you
went into a different mode of filmmaking, partnering with Jason Blum who's a master of the low
budget, atmospheric
horror thriller.
I'm into all types of movies — I'm trying to make a
horror film (next), and there's some indie movies that'd cost about $ 5 to make that I'd like to do — but this was a chance for someone to write a check for a big -
budget comedy, and to be able to do something as balls - out as this one... y ’ know, I'm gonna take advantage of that!»
If the John Carpenter era of low -
budget horror has truly come and
gone, and we must resort to reimagining past successes, all I ask is that the filmmakers tasked to do so put their minds together to rediscover that spark of life that made the originals so memorably exciting.
The low -
budget, high - energy
horror show
goes from suspense to shocks and from police procedural to outright gory mayhem without skipping a beat.
Adam Wingard knows how to do low -
budget horror, and it shows; the kills are just gory enough to make you cringe, but don't
go to the extremes that the Evil Dead remake did.
As long as Open Road Films didn't
go crazy on the marketing costs for this
horror remake — which by the lack of promos, they didn't — then there's a solid chance this will be profitable assuming that the production
budget was only a couple million.
However, Francesca Kaye, partner at Russell - Cooke, says: «The risk of making an application to amend or vary a
budget is firstly that the proposed amendment, depending on why you are applying to amend, might not be allowed; secondly, we have heard some
horror stories of making an application to amend, and the judge taking one look at the
budget that previously had been granted, and taking it as an opportunity to have another
go at it.»
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.