1. "Panic Party"
Cost: $350,000
If you want to recommend a secret room movie, the "Panic Party" series is absolutely impossible to bypass.
In the whole trilogy, the first part is the most outstanding, and the last two only dare to repeat itself under the framework of its foundation.
The entire film cost only $350,000, in stark contrast to the rave reviews and topicality it received.
It is a perfect interpretation of a good science fiction movie, which can be supported by inspiration alone.
Newcomer director Vincenzo Natali made his debut at the age of 28.
There are only seven characters in the film, and all scenes are confined to a strange and sinister "cube prison".
At the beginning of the scene, a prisoner tries to escape and is executed in a cruel way by the authorities.
The main line of the story is that six strangers find ways to solve the code, avoid the trap, and escape from the cage.
At the same time, they have to figure out a series of problems in the jailbreak:
For example, who built this prison, why they were locked up here, and so on.
The scene design and suspense control of "Panic Square" are indeed extraordinary.
But what makes it stand out is its ingenious character setting, which is enough to trigger multiple interpretations.
The six people in the film with different occupations and personalities are highly representative.
Some people understand that they are the epitome of the various functions of contemporary society.
Others see them as the various facades of human nature.
It can be said that "Panic Square" perfectly embodies the core charm of this type of high-IQ movie.
At the end of the day, it doesn't have a standard answer, and each viewer can make a satisfactory interpretation based on their own experience and knowledge structure.
And each interpretation can convey a wealth of allegories in addition to self-justification.
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2. "Crazy Clerk"
Cost: $230,000
Feeling that Quentin's film is enough to talk about, I recommend looking at Kevin Smith's work.
Without much watching, this directorial debut "Crazy Clerk" is enough.
The two protagonists work in a small shop that sells groceries and rents videotapes.
One hanger Lang Dang, always wearing a hat, the other is fatter, some unresponsive nerve strips.
The whole movie has no story line, only a few fragments of two friends and friends and customers.
Ask what's so good about such a rough and stupid movie — its lines are classic.
And each character is trained as if he has been trained to report the name of the dish, and his speech speed is fast.
From their mouths, cold jokes, high-energy spits, geeky humor and meat paragraphs are constantly bursting out.
There are god-like metaphors, such as "his IQ is smaller than the size of his shoes."
Someone casually talks about the details of sexual partners and sex activities.
There is also a tearing war that makes people cry and laugh.
I can't stop looking at it all the time.
I once tried to sort out the passages inside, and later found that it was almost equivalent to reading the script directly.
Kevin Smith sold his comic book collection and started tinkering with the film with $27,000.
The cast is purely a patchwork, with all kinds of relatives and friends, and even the owner's wife.
Black and white pictures, single scenes, performances are sloppy, and the soundtrack is basically nonsense.
The funeral scene that can best spend money, simply shoot an animation to fool through the pass.
Counting the post-production, a total of 230,000 US dollars in costs earned back 3.2 million at the box office, and the merit was complete.
There was also a sequel in 2006, just as and chattering.
The biggest step forward is to turn the discussion of Star Wars into The Lord of the Rings, and geeks are certainly keeping pace with the times.
3. "This Man Is from Earth"
Cost: $200,000
A group of people + an enclosed space has become one of the standards of low-budget science fiction movies.
At the beginning of the film, after ten years of work, 35-year-old Harvard history professor John chose to resign.
Faced with the confusion of his colleagues, John confided in his 14,000-year-old undead identity.
So a group of historians, religious scholars, biologists, psychologists have challenged him with their professional knowledge.
John answered the questions of no scars on his body, concealing his identity, participating in major historical events, and immortality.
The choreographer's drama is powerful and extraordinary, and although the scene is monotonous, details such as scene scheduling, line design, and character performance have been fully worked.
Many suspense movies lose their charm at the first spoiler, but this film allows John to tell the truth and the truth from the beginning.
The rest is an attempt to confirm or falsify this fact, while still retaining a surprising twist in the ending.
Through their war of words, the audience's understanding of human civilization has also been shaken.
In fact, the film is difficult to call science fiction, and we are more suitable to think of it as a thought experiment.
The whole debate process, that is, disguised, confirms what is called "bold hypothesis, careful verification".
Fans with a scientific and thinking spirit will definitely be addicted to the film.
Pondering the details, divergeing thinking, scrutinizing testimony, and drawing your own conclusions are all fun processes.
4. "Death Code"
Cost: $60,000
For low-budget sci-fi films, there is a crazy and unique idea that has half of the script.
The idea for this film is:
Natural language can be explained by numbers, and if you find patterns in these numbers, you can apply them to everything in nature.
The Jewish genius mathematician Maxi, obsessed with the world of numbers, gradually approached this law.
He found that the volatility of the stock market over the past decade can be explained by a set of mathematical patterns.
But studying this code also attracted the obstacle of mysterious forces, causing him to constantly have severe headaches.
At the same time, everyone from wall Street's financial giants to the Jewish mystical sect began to pestering him.
When it comes to director Darren Aronowski, the first thing that comes to mind is probably Requiem for Dreams or Black Swan.
The first thing that made him stand out in the industry was the directorial debut "Death Code".
Although it only cost $60,000 and used black and white photography, it took two years to shoot, which was more time-consuming than many first-line productions.
The film won the Director's Award at the Sundance Film Festival and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay Debut the following year, allowing Aronofsky to enter the mainstream film scene.
Using the obscure theory of chaos as a guide, the film tells a gripping science fiction thriller.
The non-Hollywood narrative model has become the biggest advantage, from the story setting to the concept, there is a sense of eye-catching.
In particular, the open-ended ending that does not take the usual path gives people a kind of mystery of the secret of the universe between the white colts.
The super cool movie experience and endless aftertaste are enough to make people forget that this is a low-cost black and white film.