Favourite low to medium budget scifi movies

[Gingerbread Demon]

My favorites are Cube (1997) with a budget of $350,000 and Gattaca (1997) with a budget of $36 million.

I'll throw in Groundhog Day (1993) if fantasy qualifies. It had a budget of $13.6 million.

Sorry for being a necromancer but I ABSOLUTELY LOVE CUBE.

It's just a great movie and they should never have done those sequels. They made two and frankly they suck.

How did Groundhog Day cost nearly $14 million? was most of that Bill Murray's paycheck?

 

[maneth]

Serenity, without a doubt.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Sorry for being a necromancer but I ABSOLUTELY LOVE CUBE.

Interesting, picking out all the "cameos" in that film. There's Ezri Dax, Rodney McKay, Mike Hamar from The Red Green Show, and one of the creepy "Martians" in the second season of War of the Worlds (he's the guy who dies in the first scene).

And Cube 2 has the dude from Forever Knight , along with ENT's Surak and one of the prisoners from DSC's third episode!

 

[Forbin]

Crash and Burn
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099313/

 

[Hugo Rune]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - $20,000,000
Ex Machina - $15,000,000
Attack The Block - $11,000,000
28 Days Later - $7,000,000
Predestination - $5,000,000
Take Shelter - $4,750,000
Troll Hunter - $3,500,000
Monsters - $500,000
Pi - $60,000
Coherence - $50,000
Primer - $7,000

 

[F. King Daniel]

Virtual Nightmare. Fantastic TV movie.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

$7,000 Primer is the best example of a low budget yet good film

 

[scotpens]

Queen Of Outer Space - From the 60s but it looks very much like it would have fit with Star Trek.

Queen of Outer Space is from the '50s. 1958, to be exact.

One of my all-time favorite low-budget sci-fi films is Creation of the Humanoids (1961). An interesting film with intelligent ideas if you can get past the talky script, the wooden acting and the ultra-cheap sets that look like stage scenery.

Some of my other favorites are The Magnetic Monster (1953), Kronos (1957), The Monolith Monsters (1957) and The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

$7,000 Primer is the best example of a low budget yet good film

Now if only they could explain the plot.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Now if only they could explain the plot.

Ouch!!!

But yeah. I wish they could redo the films audio track now that they have more money. I think one of the films bigger complaints was the audio.

The plot yeah, its confusing

 

[Smellmet]

Can't believe no-one has mentioned Trancers.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Can't believe no-one has mentioned Trancers.

I have never seen those

 

[Smellmet]

I have never seen those

The first one is a very low budget time travel sci fi tale featuring a very young Helen Hunt in a prominent role alongside the very watchable Tim Thomerson. It's a good entertaining little film. The sequels, however are all garbage.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The first one is a very low budget time travel sci fi tale featuring a very young Helen Hunt in a prominent role alongside the very watchable Tim Thomerson. It's a good entertaining little film. The sequels, however are all garbage.

OK the first one sounds like it could be fun. Just looked them up. First one seems the only one worth watching too.

 

[Smellmet]

It's very 80's and corny, but Thomerson is very watchable and quite funny in it. It's only about 80 minutes long. It's worth checking out in the context of this thread.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

It's very 80's and corny, but Thomerson is very watchable and quite funny in it. It's only about 80 minutes long. It's worth checking out in the context of this thread.

Yeah I might do that one day. It's one of those titles that I keep seeing on Amazon when I do movie searches.

I'm trying to find Future Cop and Running Delilah which was a more serious take on The Bionic Woman with a more serious tone because we see a bit of how the person feels after having robotic limbs put into their body, and yes it's a goofy spy movie but has serious moments.

I love the OSI it's one of the most, if not THE MOST inept security agency ever. How they kept things secret was a miracle. That's what I got from watching all of The Six Million Dollar Man.

Death Probe was my favourite bad guy

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Even cheaper than 1980's Doctor Who, The Stranger (movie series) was very low budget. Still good though and nice seeing Colin Baker again. And from the same company, The Airzone Solution (aka: The Four Doctors)

 

[Forbin]

Has anybody ever seen The Deadly Spawn?
I had the pleasure of being a monster puppeteer on that one.

 

[Verteron]

We watched Coherence on Halloween last year. That film really sends shivers down the spine!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Whatever you do do not watch Pandemic..... It's not even "bad but good"