9 out of 10 people love going to the movies or watching them at home. Okay, so we made those statistics up but we’re sure it isn’t far from the truth. Anyways, we thought it would be fun to give you aspiring filmmakers out there a list of movies that were made on a low budget that went on to become successful films. In other words, it is possible to make a movie on next to nothing and have it become the “next big thing.” So, if you’re ready to check out our list of movies made on a low budget, you can go ahead and scroll down now!

The Blair Witch Project

While no one can quite agree what the budget of this movie was, the most common figure that we’ve heard is around $60,000 which may sound like a lot of cash but in terms of movie money, it’s next to nothing. Either way, the movie went on to make millions and millions of dollars. To be exact, it made around 200 million dollars in theaters alone.

Star Wars

While Star Wars had a budget of over 10 million dollars (which was a lot of money back in the 1970s), it was hardly nothing for what the first film was able to do. Grossing close to 1 billion dollars, this film became its own brand and won the hearts of many. Over 30 years later, it still has a huge following and is on the “best movie of all time” lists of many folks.

Cabin Fever

While most people say that this film had a budget of over 1 million dollars, the actual film was made for much less than that. It later sold for millions of dollars at the Toronto film festival and went on to become the movie that made Eli Roth the director that he is to this very day. If you haven’t seen the film, it’s a really good horror flick that we loved.

Clerks

Clerks was a comedy film made in the early 90s by Kevin Smith who later went on to become somewhat of a pop culture icon. Made on a budget of around 28 grand, the movie went on to spawn a sequel and make over 3 million dollars in the box office. Aside from that, it more or less made the careers of many people including Jason “Jay” Mewes.

Hopefully you had fun checking this list. If you did, be sure to let us know and we may do more like it in the near future. Of course, there are tons of movies out there that were also made on low budgets but these are just the ones that came to mind. Now, what if you have never even heard of these movies? If that’s the case, we highly recommend checking them out and you can most likely find all of these for $10 or less each on DVD or Blu Ray.