Horror Roundtable - Week Forty-Five
Name your favourite no-to-low budget horror movie.
I’ve been an unabashed fan of Ted V. Mikels’ The Corpse Grinders ever since I first saw it on Off Beat Cinema years ago. Naturally, the film involves a cut-rate cat food company who use an unorthodox source of meat for their products, at least until the human hungry kitties decide to make fancy feasts out of their owners. It’s famously no-budget, featuring a meat grinder fashioned out of a cardboard box and roughly three sets, but it’s also just saturated in an ultra-cheap and sleazy 42nd St feel that takes it beyond the realm of most poverty row horrors.
Jeff O’Brien
The Evil Dead.
Sean T. Collins - Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat
The Blair Witch Project, duh. Scariest movie I’ve ever seen.
Well, my first choice, obviously, would be EVIL DEAD… but, lately, of all the “new” filmmakers, etc., I’d have to say the best one I’ve seen is THE REDSIN TOWER.
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I was gonna say Blair Witch - the ultimate - but there’s another one that’s been on my mind the past few days - Wendigo, by Larry Fessenden. The monster turns out to be a little… silly, in the end, honestly… but the sense of dread the film acheives in its first half by exploiting a fear of stray bullets from hunting accidents is impressive… something I, being from a town of good ol’ boys, can appreciate only too well.
SEX MACHINE, muthafuckers! The low budget tale of a man out to get revenge on the evil scientist that has turned him into a Frankenstein-like freak! It finally came out on DVD last Tuesday and well worth it!
My all-time fave would have to be Eric Stanze’s out-of-print THE SCARE GAME, just for the sole reason that it introduced to me the world of indie underground films. Not to mention the idea that I or anybody else could make their own flick.
For no to low budget, I enjoyed The Red Skulls quite a bit! It’s a long long haul from Hollywood fare, but the story was fairly original, some genuine laughs in there, and if nothing else the crew’s passion for the genre and making movies was great.
David Z. - Tomb It May Concern
So many of the eurohorror films of the 70’s had tiny budgets… I find it hard to nail down what I consider low budget. That said, when I think of good and cheap movies the classic Deadbeat At Dawn comes to mind. Microbudget but long on attitude and action, Jim Van Bebber carved a legacy in cheap action film history with this film and every bit of his energy shows on screen.
Kudos to the cool cats of The Horror Roundtable for plugging such fine low-budget gems. Now you have no excuse! Get out of the sunshine, into a dim room and catch some Z-movie gems.
May 7th, 2007 at 8:35 am
Evil Dead and Blair Witch being mentioned already, I will have to say Malevolence.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Hey guys, is your main page picture from 80s slasher April Fools Day?
I’ve just put up my top 10 1980s horror movies on my site, please check it out! The direct link is:
http://filmjournal.net/danielstephens/2007/05/07/top-10-horror-films-of-the-1980s/
May 7th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
You are correct. The banner is from April Fool’s Day, and I should have replaced it a week ago.
Paul, I also caught The Corpse Grinders on OBC, but it was a repeat. And not just any old repeat. At least a few times I’ve caught the show and the segments have been aired out of order. Such was my first exposure to The Corpse Grinders.
May 7th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I think I’d have to go with Cannibal Holocaust. While it may not be a microbudget, I think $100,000 for a film made in 1980 is still a pretty low budget.
May 8th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Cool. I should really try to watch more these days, but it seems like I’ve already seen most of what they show. Most people no longer need to stay up late to see a muddy print of NotLD.
May 10th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Have you guys seen “Joshua?” It’s also known as “the good Fangoria movie.”
All the flaws of a student film and more, but it’s still a total gem. Haunted me for days.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:31 am
I am trying to find a movie..super low budget (probably) maybe late 70s early 80’s..the plot is like this. A guy walks into a bar (seriously) and talks to a woman, some guys kick his ass and throw out. The girl comes out patches him up and warns him about a creature seen around in the woods. On his way home he is attacked by the creature, it cuts him and then he kills it. No more monster for the rest of the movie by the way. The next morning he wakes up with hair in the wounds (I think) he goes to town and does various routines. Later, other people who stand in the same spot, burst into flames. The towns people panic and somehow get the idea to collect cats, so they can place them on the “hot spots” and mark them.
The movie takes a left turn and ends up being a town civil war because they do not have enough cats..I know this movie sounds made up..but it is real myself and 2 of my friends did not have the same hallucenation..Please help. Devast8or26004c at hawt male
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