21 August 2008 10:26 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news
Starring Matt Partridge, Steve Zissis, Greta Gurwig, and Elise Miller
Directed by Jay and Mark Duplass
Rated R
Throughout horror movie history, it has never been the movies with the biggest budgets or even the biggest stars that have shaken us to our core. Go back to Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare On Elm Street. Really, the only movie with substantial overhead that re-wrote horror was The Exorcist. All the others were made on the cheap; even Psycho was self-financed by Hitchcock, which is why it was in black and white.
And it has remained that way up through at least The Blair Witch Project, a movie that gets overwhelmingly bad press these days, but in 1999, it was a different story. In fact, I'd wager that if you added the budgets for Psycho, Chainsaw, Nightmare, Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Blair Witch,
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Colin Boyd
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