Welcome to watch mojo And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 lowest budget horror movies.

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It'll be easier for you that it was for Jason For this list will be looking at our spooky favorites that stretched shoestring budgets into legitimate scares.

As a baseline, each entry will have budgets under $1 million dollars adjusted for inflation.

Keep in mind.

However, as with much budget reporting that all members are rough estimates rounded to the nearest 1000.

Let us know your low budget favorites in the comments below.

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Onwards and upwards.

Number 10.

Open water budget $745,000 Daniel.

Where's the boat?

That's a good question when you think low budget horror, dimly lit hallways and abandoned homes probably come to mind.

But despite being almost completely funded by married duo, writer, director chris Kentis and producer laura Lau, this destitute production managed to take its thrills all the way to the high seas.

You go, Yeah, Oh my God, they're gone.

They're gone short on digital video with primarily to actors.

What seems like a budget constraints end up lending the film of visceral realistic atmosphere that only enhances the thrills of seeing a couple lost at sea.

Of course, it helps that the production used real sharks in lieu of special effects, with the results being as terrifying as you'd expect.

Despite limited funding, the creative team behind this stranded at sea spectacle certainly has us hesitant to scuba dive anytime soon.

I wanted to go skiing.

Oh God!

Number nine, grave encounters.

Budget $146,000.

Alright, everyone, if you're ready.

It's time to have some grave encounters at a time when the found footage.

Sub genre was proving a highly profitable medium for spine tingling adventures on the big screen.

Few others managed to stretch their comparably small budget as much as this meta flick.

Also Fishman by following television personalities posing as paranormal investigators.

The film sets itself apart from its found footage contemporaries through justifiably setting up multiple camera angles at once alongside a traditional shaky cam point of view.

The film succeeds in placing an eerie emphasis on claustrophobia and mounting dread.

But don't think atmosphere is all this movie brings to the table despite its tight margins, there's enough disturbing imagery and suitably terrifying creatures to rival even its big budgeted peers in the scare department.

Number eight, the signal budget, $66,000.

You'll see things the way I'm seeing them.

I just can't understand understand the message coming through.

No, it's making people think the wrong things.

Everything is not what it says.

At a quick glance, you wouldn't be able to tell each section of this film was helmed by a different director or produced with a collective budget under $75,000 despite a tight 13 day filming schedule, it transitions between several actors and locales more than most horror films with double the money against all restrictive odds.

The film manages to be a bloody delight.

I didn't know you were married.

Cool.

I wish I was married.

That would be one part Splatter film.

One part absurdist comedy and one part love triangle.

The trio of directors at the head of this apocalyptic adventure.

Sure knew how to stretch a dollar to gleefully violent heights.

Yeah.

Number seven Henry portrait of a serial killer.

Budget $275,000.

I'd like to kill somebody.

Say that again.

I'd like to kill somebody.

That's mean.

You go for a ride in a fresh change of pace for the genre.

This indie slasher puts the audience in the eyes of the titular killer to bone chilling effect.

The film is a bold, innovative exploration of a real life murderer, led by a criminally underrated performance by Michael Rooker.

Did you really kill your mama?

What did you really kill your mama?

I guess I did.

Despite its artistic merits.

Writer Director John Mcnaughton struggled finding distribution for the bloody flick due to budget concerns.

Corners were cut in most every scene of the film.

Extras were often passer by is caught on camera.

Family and friends were brought in to play multiple characters and dialogue heavy scenes were confined to small sets, but rest assured the penny pinching paid off in a film that went down as one of the scariest and most inventive of its era.

Number six The eyes of my mother.

Budget $343,000.

Yeah, I'm trying to be polite.

Now we can try this one more time before I start to become unreasonable.

Don't let the black and white for you.

This film was released in 2016 although it's tiny budget puts it in the same league as movies released a much different time while it boasts no shortage of gruesome carnage, the film lowered costs by focusing more on disturbing imagery, vulgar characters and a haunting atmosphere.

I didn't mean to hurt you sally.

I'm sorry.

I just wanted you to tell the truth by exploring the deep trauma of a girl named Francisca throughout her life.

The film maintains a spine chilling tone without the need of visual effects or excessive gore.

It's a twisted, shocking character study that's almost too disturbing to sit through making clever use of its limited budget to create a truly unforgettable fright fest.

Ah okay.

Number five Paranormal Activity Budget.

$284,000.

What are you talking about?

Feel it?

I feel it breathing on me.

And one of the Genre's biggest success stories ever.

This film's first cut was famously funded for a mere $15,000.

It was shot in a single week with no official script and the actors were paid just $500 with profit margins like those and a final box office tally nearing $200 million.

It's no wonder this goes down as one of the most profitable films of all time as one of the most defining entries in the found footage sub genre.

Its commitment to a slow burn pace, realistic interactions and shaky camera movements make it feel as though we're witnessing the tragic haunting of a young couple.

As far as profits go.

It's hard to compete with the success of this franchise spawning horror flick.

Number four, be my cat a film for an budget $12,000.

My movie is called Be My Cat because I love cats.

Found footage.

Films are no stranger to tight budgets, but by expertly blending fact and fiction, this one goes down as one of the cheapest ever made for the bulk of this meta film.

It's hard to tell if you're supposed to be watching a movie or calling the police with more substance on this material and I will put this material now on her face and You will see what will happen with an appallingly tiny budget of just over $10,000.

Adrien Theaux Faye wrote, directed, starred and edited this chilling film about the extremes.

A man will go to to convince Anne Hathaway to act in his next feature, disturbing and effective.

This indie horror flick uses its lack of budget to create something that's almost too realistic for comfort.

Oh my God, now I'm prepared.

Now I'm prepared to work with you.

Now I'm prepared to work with you number three, The Blair Witch Project budget $823,000.

I gave you back the map heather.

I gave you back the map.

Wanted words, a shaky camera and a dysfunctional group of 20somethings.

Sound familiar.

Wallace concept isn't quite as fresh anymore.

This film was actually one of the first to popularize the found footage sub genre shorts.

Over just eight days, the movie follows a team of investigators as they face the infamous witch in a cursed forest at the time of the release that the actors were said to be missing as a way to promote the authenticity of the footage and the result was a massive box office haul.

I'm scared to close my eyes, scared to open them.

It's a master class of generating tension without the need of fake blood or flashy effects and more than deserves its title as one of the most successful independent films of all time.

Number two, the texas chainsaw massacre, budget $779,000 sally, I hear something stop!

Stop at a time when movie studios were still unsure about the widespread appeal of slasher films.

This legendary texas based tale found it hard to get distribution.

Reportedly some of the cast and crew had to defer salaries until the film found studio investment and it's easy to see why that proved so difficult.

Even by today's standards.

The exploits of this chainsaw wielding killer are incredibly gruesome.

It may not have found much investor faith before production, but it certainly found an audience at the box office to the tune of a legendary legacy and a spot among the most infamous horror villains of all time.

It seems the bloody mayhem was worth the pay cut after all.

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Number one night of the living dead budget $899,000.

They're coming to get you.

Barbara, stop it.

You're ignorant.

They're coming for you.

Barbara, it's hard to picture this legendary George Romero film looking any different.

But much of its final cuts came as a result of budgetary restrictions.

It was too expensive to film in color.

The costumes were hand me downs.

Many of the cast were local stage actors and that's just the start.

Don't you know what's going on out there?

This is no sunday school picnic.

Don't you understand my brother is alone.

Your brother is dead.

My brother is not dead.

Everything had to be considered with a tight allowance in mind.

Even as early as the idea phase Romero realized that such a modest budget forbade the expensive makeup required of aliens or monsters and as a result zombies as we know them were born as a cheaper alternative.

It just goes to show that sometimes budgetary limitations can lead to the best kinds of creative breakthroughs.

No johnny help.

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