Low Budget/No Budget Films
List of my favorite truly independent, low budget, films by obscure filmmakers.
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- DirectorJ.R. BookwalterStarsJames BlackTom HooverBill MorrisonWhile ambushing a drug-dealer, Detective Eddie Boone (James Black) is injected in a fight against the dealer with a new drug called Ozone, which transforms the users in powerful zombies. His partner and friend Mike Weitz (Tom Hoover) is kidnapped by a group of Ozone addicted. Eddie tries to find Mike in the streets, fighting against the zombies and having several hallucinations due to the effect drug in his blood.
- DirectorJim Van BebberStarsJim Van BebberTerek PuckettAlydra KellyA group of directionless, bored, drug-using teenagers get involved in a cult, resulting in a murder.
- DirectorMark ShepardStarsBrinke StevensElizabeth MoreheadDawn Wildsmith"The Black Veil." Set in 1888, the widow of a psychiatrist visits a college friend who is performing in a theatre that enacts gruesome mutilations and torture. The actress suffers from severe headaches, and the friend tries to help her with a hypnotizing machine designed by her father, and uncovers horrors that parallel the stage productions. "Listen to Midnight." A photographer recounts the events leading up to his murder, which is linked to a story he had heard in Japan about a female dragonfly luring the male to his death.
- DirectorRodd MatsuiPatricia MillerBryan MooreStarsBrinke StevensLinda MillerRenee Lillian"She's Bad, She's Blonde, She's Lunch." A couple hold up a store to pay the rent, then take an ill-fated trip to Lover's Lane, where they meet a man involved in genetic research. "Cardinal Sin." A young man escapes into Hustler fantasies and must avoid his overbearing and religious mom. Eventually he ameliorates his situation. "Pet Shop of Death." A henpecked husband goes to a specialty pet store to get something to help free him up so he can pursue his neighbor. "Last Love." A psychiatrist is forlorn over the loss of her husband, and takes steps to make her affair with his ghost more permanent. "What Goes Around..." A composer who can't create music since the death of his wife and child finds new inspiration from the affair with a femme fatale. But she has a price.
- DirectorDonald FarmerStarsDrew GodderisSky NicholasDonald TrimbornAs a sorority initiation, two girls have to pose as hookers. Then they turn into zombies and start killing and eating the locals.
- DirectorChris SeaverStarsJosh SuireMeredith HostMarilyn MaysonBased on the classic 1992 horror film by Director Todd Jason Cook, this REMAKE adds a more over the top comedy, gore, one-liners and BOOBS! Jimmy Fisher is the typical nerd who winds up the victim of a prank gone wrong. Jennifer, the girl of Jimmy?s dreams, leads the prank with a group of her friends. Devastated, Jimmy gets revenge in the most intelligent way...using his mind! He has a surprise for his tormentors...a serum which he developed that created his weapon for revenge - TELEKINESIS!
- DirectorChris SeaverStarsMeredith HostDesiree SaetiaKate LewisFour geeky friends seeking to lose their virginity go on one last summer adventure after they find out about a very gross and curious rumor they must investigate.
- DirectorJay WoelfelStarsNick BaldasareRick KeslerSusan PinskyBen hasn't been able to dream since the deaths of his parents, but as he attempts to make human connections, his nightmares begin to spill over into all of their waking lives.
- DirectorUlli LommelStarsSuzanna LoveJohn CarradineRon JamesThrough the reflection in the mirror, a girl witnesses her mother's boyfriend's murder.
- DirectorGary P. CohenStarsGary SchwartzChick KaplanRobin LeedsA husband and wife open a video store in a new town, and come to find out that the locals only rent horror films and the "occasional triple X'er", and make their own snuff videos.
- DirectorGary P. CohenStarsLisa CohenJackie NeillZachary CohenThree weirdos invade the home of a wealthy family while the husband is at work. They have not come with the intention of stealing anything, they just want to show the wife a video.
- DirectorJohn WintergateStarsJohn WintergateKalassuLindsay FreemanA boarding house is reopened years after gruesome murders were committed there. Suddenly, the body count begins once more!
- DirectorCarl DenhamStarsWilliam LantryAnthony Van DeurenT.K. MaloneRoger, Neil, and Mike are horror movie fans who have a mock seance to bring Nazi psycho Max Shreck back from the dead. Unfortunately, the seance works and Shreck wreaks havoc in our time and in his.
- DirectorTom FisherJon McBrideStarsJon McBrideAmy ChludzinskiChristopher A. GrangerFour teenagers on an outing in the woods are attacked by a trio of mutant cannibals.
- DirectorChris SeaverStarsJesse AmesTeen ApeAndrew BaltesThe Legend of Blood Fart lake is...well...legendary! When a group of college kids head off to their friend's cabin for a little high octane sex weekend they will get more than they bargained for in the form of the evil Scarecrow killer, Jimmy Van Brunt! Seems like no body is safe at spooky cabins in the woods by the lake these days.
- DirectorGary P. CohenStarsDavid ChristopherMavis HarrisNeil CerboneHoward and Eli, the killers from the first film in this duology, Video Violence, are back and are now hosting their own TV series. Broadcast secretly from their basement, the series looks at the fine art of murder, letting other aspiring psychos send in videos of their handiwork for the world to enjoy. Some viewers are shocked and horrified, but many more become avid fans, clamoring for more and more blood.
- DirectorTim RitterStarsAsbestos FeltCourtney LercaraRaymond CarboneA man suspects his wife of adultery and goes on a killing spree, eliminating all he believes are sleeping with her, but his victims don't stay dead.
- DirectorTodd Jason CookStarsMilton RushC. Jo VelaLisa DeWildBrad Masters enters a contest and wins an album by his favorite band of all time, Living Corpse. The tape has a special song called "Zombiefied", which turns Brad and his friends into zombies at a party. Luckily, Brad's girlfriend Angel misses the party and it is up to her to save her friends. She runs into Shengar (lead singer of Living Corpse and ruler of the dead world) , who attempts to stop Angel. During Angel's escape, she teams up with her friend Tommy who learns that there is only way to stop the zombies. Now, Angel and Tommy have limited time to figure out how to reverse the zombie curse and save their friends. DMZ is known for it's strangely original story.
- DirectorJohn PoloniaMark PoloniaTodd Michael SmithStarsJohn PoloniaMark PoloniaTodd Michael SmithThree brothers (one who is slow and another who is adopted) have disturbing and violent hallucinations while their mother is at work.
- DirectorDavid A. PriorStarsTed PriorLinda McGillJohn EastmanA young boy murders his mother and her lover with a hammer. Ten years later, a wave of teenage murders plagues the same area.
- DirectorJon McBrideStarsJon McBrideDenice EdealTom CasielloThree siblings begin to kill people with a woodchipper while their father is away.
- DirectorChester Novell TurnerStarsShirley L. JonesRicky RoachChester TankersleyA woman buys a doll at a magic shop. Unbeknownst to her, the doll is possessed by an evil spirit, and it proceeds to take her over.
- DirectorTim RitterStarsJoel D. WynkoopBill CassinelliMichael Hoffman Jr.A "shockumentary" which follows Officer Friendly, a psychotic policeman, on a rampage of sex, drugs, murder and other worldly pleasures.
- DirectorChristopher ThiesStarsTim R. MorganMike MagriCharles MajkaPeople are being killed off near a popular mountain lodge, with a legend claiming that the mountain is haunted by a deadly Native American demonic curse.
- DirectorDennis DevineEugene JamesJay WoelfelStarsKinder HuntMaegenJesse LizarragaA woman kidnaps her husband's mistress and tells the mistress two horror stories involving evil things.
- DirectorJoe SherlockStarsMelody BergJuniper BloodravenJohn BowkerOdd Noggins is a strange, surreal trip into a small town where nothing is quite what it seems to be. What is it about that horror movie on channel 12? Why do so many women in this small town work for the same party entertainment service? What is the significance of their bubble baths? Why so much yogurt? Who is Bob? A wild cult flick full of sci-fi horror weirdness.
- DirectorFilip HanzekJoe SherlockJon StoneStarsJason AguayoDee AlsmanMitch Archibald"Dark Zone Thirteen" reveals the tales from the infamous thirteenth issue of a lost pulp magazine. Some People Speculate it couldn't be released because it was cursed. Perhaps it was too dark? Regardless we found it, and we're sharing the scary stories that for years have been unseen.
- DirectorJoe SherlockStarsTonjia AtomicMelody BergCassidy DavidMysterious experiments are going on at the BioGen4 Research Labs...and now, those experiments...are loose. Monsters...creatures...hungry for flesh and blood.
- DirectorWally KozStarsMara Lynn BastianCharles FullerGreg KerouacA psycho dressed as a hippie is killing couples in Lake Front. As the police search for more clues and the body count gets higher, they discover every five years, for five days, the killer kills 5 couples. Will they catch this madman or will he get away for another five years?
- DirectorT. MichaelStarsMichael CapellupoKevin M. GloverHenry HarrisThree street punks--Turk, his girlfriend BB., and his sidekick Wimp--observe two young affluent kids, Ginger and Danny, shoplifting from a record store. On a lark, the street kids invite themselves along to a party at the home of the yuppies' friends, Rod and Arlene. There the party games turn from strip darts to Russian roulette as it becomes increasingly obvious that the yuppies are playing with the street kids' emotions. Eventually the three street kids are all brutally murdered by the yuppies, who had purposely lured them in for exactly that purpose. The yuppies then prepare for their next "kill."
- DirectorTimothy O'RaweStarsJoe FranklinWilliam FriedmanScott GordonSex, babes and rock 'n roll! Two thugs in search of hidden treasure mistakenly unleash a chemical into the school's water supply, causing everyone it comes into contact with to become flesh-eating ghouls.
- DirectorJim Van BebberStarsMarcelo GamesMarc PitmanLeslie OrrA dramatization of the horrific and notorious Manson Family Murders, in the form of super 8 home movies.
- DirectorBret McCormickStarsScott DavisJude JohnsonBlue ThompsonAn old woman coughs up what she believes to be a tumor. While asleep, the thing crawls inside of her son and reproduces inside him, then causes him to go on a killing spree to feed it.
- DirectorOlaf IttenbachStarsOlaf IttenbachAndrea ArbterAndré StryiTommy finds a cursed mirror and a diary in an attic in the new house they moved in. The mirror starts to give Tommy horrible and gruesome visions as his crush keeps rising from the dead.
- DirectorChristopher MillsStarsValerie WilliamsMark DiasPamela HongAfter her motocross racing, mullet sporting boyfriend is killed, Brittney finds herself haunted by visions of her dead lover. These visions are brushed off at first and she is encouraged to move on, but the nightmares simply won't end. Meanwhile, she takes off to a cabin in the woods and encounters a camp counselor who yells at everyone and hip hop dancers who prefer a rural stage. When she takes on a new lover, her ex rises from the grave and begins to terrorize everyone through a strange nightmare link. This leads to bloodshed, a guy bouncing off a queen sized mattress, and a broken condom. But is her dead boyfriend really riding his dirt bike through death's door or has Brittney just lost her mind from looking that horrible music box?
- DirectorDon DohlerStarsDon LeifertTom GriffithRichard DyszelA science ship with three dangerous specimens collected from around the universe crash lands on Earth. A mysterious stranger named "Ben Zachary" shows up claiming to be able to save the day. Can he do what he claims?
- DirectorRon BonkStarsMatthew Jason WalshAnne-Marie O'KeefeNoel BonkA gory & violent take on "Night of the Living Dead", only with vampires.
- DirectorJason MatherneStarsBill HeintzRic KauffmanDana KieferleAbout a sick perverted maniac called Cockface Killer who keeps in fear the whole city, and now it's up to Mark, a simple clerk in one of the stores to find and kill the maniac.
- DirectorCharles PinionStarsStephen L. AntczakCharles PinionLow budget shot-on-video gore film with comical overtones concerns a skateboarding teen's murder. Rising from the dead with his skateboard, he embarks on a vengeful killing spree.