A movie with Budget: $4,000,000 Wow

You can save a lot of money if you do not pay high salaries to big name actors (and with the budget I assume L.F. worked for the minimum amount). Also besides the last quarter of the movie there were not many special effects, the sets mostly were the desert and some old building.. so not much in terms of different locations either.

I thought the same thing about Chronicle, it had a relatively low budget for what it was and how much it profited.

- Rand

I think a bunch of the budget went toward the *money shot* in the very last scene.

Because of the advances in digital camera technology, you can shoot a film for one million dollars and have it look great because of the quality of the camera. The film itself is very cheap, though. That doesn't make it a bad movie, but it does look like it's budget is really small.

"I wish I wasn't afraid all the time, but I am."
-V for Vendetta

Are you kidding me? Is 4 million USD considered low budget? This page says "low budget" is about 2.1 million USD: http://stephenfollows.com/how-much-do-low-and-micro-budget-films-cost/

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shane carruth could have done this movie with 400.000 dollars.

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