Low Budget/No Budget Films
by aad-32-819041 | created - 5 months ago | updated - 5 months ago | PublicList of my favorite truly independent, low budget, films by obscure filmmakers.
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1. Ozone (1993)
Unrated | 83 min | Horror
While 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. ... See full summary »
Director: J.R. Bookwalter | Stars: James Black, Tom Hoover, Bill Morrison, Michael Cagnoli
Votes: 475
2. My Sweet Satan (1994)
19 min | Short, Crime, Horror
A group of directionless, bored, drug-using teenagers get involved in a cult, resulting in a murder.
Director: Jim Van Bebber | Stars: Jim Van Bebber, Terek Puckett, Alydra Kelly, Sherri Rickman
Votes: 745
3. Dark Romances Vol. 1 (1990 Video)
Horror, Romance
"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 ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Shepard | Stars: Brinke Stevens, Elizabeth Morehead, Dawn Wildsmith, Larry Hankin
Votes: 56
4. Dark Romances Vol. 2 (1990 Video)
Horror, Romance
"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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Rodd Matsui, Patricia Miller, Bryan Moore, Samuel Oldham, Mark Shepard, John Strysik | Stars: Brinke Stevens, Linda Miller, Renee Lillian, Samuel Oldham
Votes: 42
5. Cannibal Hookers (1987 Video)
R | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
As a sorority initiation, two girls have to pose as hookers. Then they turn into zombies and start killing and eating the locals.
Director: Donald Farmer | Stars: Drew Godderis, Sky Nicholas, Donald Trimborn, Michelle Fox
Votes: 596
6. Evil Night (2014)
Not Rated | 55 min | Comedy, Horror
Based 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... See full summary »
Director: Chris Seaver | Stars: Josh Suire, Meredith Host, Marilyn Mayson, Heather Maxon
Votes: 96
7. The Weirdsies (2015)
67 min | Comedy
Four 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.
Director: Chris Seaver | Stars: Meredith Host, Desiree Saetia, Kate Lewis, Josh Suire
Votes: 47
8. Beyond Dream's Door (1989)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Ben 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.
Director: Jay Woelfel | Stars: Nick Baldasare, Rick Kesler, Susan Pinsky, Norm Singer
Votes: 886
9. The Boogey Man (1980)
R | 82 min | Horror
Through the reflection in the mirror, a girl witnesses her mother's boyfriend's murder.
Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Ron James, Nicholas Love
Votes: 5,109 | Gross: $4.50M
10. Video Violence (1987 Video)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror
A 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.
Director: Gary P. Cohen | Stars: Gary Schwartz, Chick Kaplan, Robin Leeds, Paige Price
Votes: 1,004
11. Captives (1988)
Unrated | 84 min | Drama, Horror
Three 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.
Director: Gary P. Cohen | Stars: Lisa Cohen, Jackie Neill, Zachary Cohen, Neil Cerbone
Votes: 94
12. Boardinghouse (1982)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Horror
A boarding house is reopened years after gruesome murders were committed there. Suddenly, the body count begins once more!
Director: John Wintergate | Stars: John Wintergate, Kalassu, Lindsay Freeman, Joel Riordan
Votes: 1,036 | Gross: $0.39M
13. Shreck (1990 Video)
Unrated | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
Roger, 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.
Director: Carl Denham | Stars: William Lantry, Anthony Van Deuren, T.K. Malone, Sharon Wozniak
Votes: 157
14. Cannibal Campout (1988 Video)
Unrated | 88 min | Horror
Four teenagers on an outing in the woods are attacked by a trio of mutant cannibals.
Directors: Tom Fisher, Jon McBride | Stars: Jon McBride, Amy Chludzinski, Christopher A. Granger, Gene Robbins
Votes: 611
15. Terror at Blood Fart Lake (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 76 min | Comedy, Horror
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Seaver | Stars: Jesse Ames, Teen Ape, Andrew Baltes, Casey Bowker
Votes: 486
16. Video Violence 2 (1988 Video)
TV-14 | 75 min | Horror
Howard 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Gary P. Cohen | Stars: David Christopher, Mavis Harris, Neil Cerbone, Bill Bowers
Votes: 480
17. Killing Spree (1987)
88 min | Horror
A 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.
Director: Tim Ritter | Stars: Asbestos Felt, Courtney Lercara, Raymond Carbone, Bruce Paquette
Votes: 1,014
18. Death Metal Zombies (1995 Video)
93 min | Horror
Brad 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Todd Jason Cook | Stars: Milton Rush, C. Jo Vela, Lisa DeWild, Todd Jason Cook
Votes: 207
19. Hallucinations (1986 Video)
60 min | Horror
Three brothers (one who is slow and another who is adopted) have disturbing and violent hallucinations while their mother is at work.
Directors: John Polonia, Mark Polonia, Todd Michael Smith | Stars: John Polonia, Mark Polonia, Todd Michael Smith
Votes: 175
20. Sledgehammer (1983 Video)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
A young boy murders his mother and her lover with a hammer. Ten years later, a wave of teenage murders plagues the same area.
Director: David A. Prior | Stars: Ted Prior, Linda McGill, John Eastman, Janine Scheer
Votes: 1,051
21. Woodchipper Massacre (1988 Video)
Unrated | 80 min | Comedy, Horror
Three siblings begin to kill people with a woodchipper while their father is away.
Director: Jon McBride | Stars: Jon McBride, Denice Edeal, Tom Casiello, Patricia McBride
Votes: 546
22. Black Devil Doll from Hell (1984 Video)
Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy, Horror
A 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.
Director: Chester Novell Turner | Stars: Shirley L. Jones, Ricky Roach, Chester Tankersley, Marie Sainvilvs
Votes: 806
23. Dirty Cop No Donut (1999 Video)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Crime
A "shockumentary" which follows Officer Friendly, a psychotic policeman, on a rampage of sex, drugs, murder and other worldly pleasures.
Director: Tim Ritter | Stars: Joel D. Wynkoop, Bill Cassinelli, Michael Hoffman Jr., Andrew Gulbrandsen
Votes: 225
24. Winterbeast (1992 Video)
Not Rated | 77 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
People 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.
Director: Christopher Thies | Stars: Tim R. Morgan, Mike Magri, Charles Majka, Bob Harlow
Votes: 974
25. Things (1993)
Not Rated | 81 min | Horror
A woman kidnaps her husband's mistress and tells the mistress two horror stories involving evil things.
Directors: Dennis Devine, Eugene James, Jay Woelfel | Stars: Kinder Hunt, Maegen, Jesse Lizarraga, Olivia
Votes: 221
26. Odd Noggins (2015)
74 min | Horror
Odd 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Sherlock | Stars: Melody Berg, Juniper Bloodraven, John Bowker, Emily Howard
Votes: 31
27. Dark Zone Thirteen (2019)
96 min | Horror
"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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Filip Hanzek, Joe Sherlock, Jon Stone, Joseph Voegele | Stars: Jason Aguayo, Dee Alsman, Mitch Archibald, Melody Berg
Votes: 13
28. Things 5 (2019)
72 min | Horror
Mysterious experiments are going on at the BioGen4 Research Labs...and now, those experiments...are loose. Monsters...creatures...hungry for flesh and blood.
Director: Joe Sherlock | Stars: Tonjia Atomic, Melody Berg, Cassidy David, Jackey Neyman Jones
Votes: 63
29. 555 (1988 Video)
90 min | Horror
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Wally Koz | Stars: Mara Lynn Bastian, Charles Fuller, Greg Kerouac, Greg Neilson
Votes: 445
30. Venus Flytrap (1987 Video)
64 min | Thriller
Three 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 ... See full summary »
Director: T. Michael | Stars: Michael Capellupo, Kevin M. Glover, Henry Harris, Darlene Hartwell
Votes: 126
31. Ghoul School (1990 Video)
90 min | Comedy, Horror, Sport
Sex, 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.
Director: Timothy O'Rawe | Stars: Joe Franklin, William Friedman, Scott Gordon, Paul Venier
Votes: 394
32. The Manson Family (1997)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, History
A dramatization of the horrific and notorious Manson Family Murders, in the form of super 8 home movies.
Director: Jim Van Bebber | Stars: Marcelo Games, Marc Pitman, Leslie Orr, Maureen Allisse
Votes: 3,388 | Gross: $0.02M
33. The Abomination (1986)
100 min | Horror
An 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.
Director: Bret McCormick | Stars: Scott Davis, Jude Johnson, Blue Thompson, Brad McCormick
Votes: 734
34. Black Past (1989 Video)
85 min | Horror
Tommy 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.
Director: Olaf Ittenbach | Stars: Olaf Ittenbach, Andrea Arbter, André Stryi, Alfons Sigllechner
Votes: 796
35. Dream Stalker (1991 Video)
90 min | Horror
After 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... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Mills | Stars: Valerie Williams, Mark Dias, Tommie Benoit, Donna Brown
Votes: 111
36. The Alien Factor (1978)
G | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A 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?
Director: Don Dohler | Stars: Don Leifert, Tom Griffith, Richard Dyszel, Mary Mertens
Votes: 1,278
37. City of the Vampires (1993)
Unrated | 82 min | Horror
A gory & violent take on "Night of the Living Dead", only with vampires.
Director: Ron Bonk | Stars: Matthew Jason Walsh, Anne-Marie O'Keefe, Noel Bonk, Ron Bonk
Votes: 68
38. Goregasm (2007)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror
About 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.
Director: Jason Matherne | Stars: Bill Heintz, Ric Kauffman, Dana Kieferle, Valeri Lombard
Votes: 143
39. Twisted Issues (1988 Video)
87 min | Comedy, Horror
Low 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.
Director: Charles Pinion | Stars: Stephen L. Antczak, Charles Pinion
Votes: 96
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