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The Nothingness said:
As I watched the first act for The Wolf of Snow Hollow, I thought I was watching the latest werewolf horror comedy that was in the spirit of An American Werewolf in London. However as the film went on, it felt more like what I experienced watching Werewolves Within. Out of the main and supporting cast, I only found two characters likable and one of them dies at the halfway point. The reveal of the killer is underwhelming because it never established potential suspects. It's not a werewolf but the town's taxidermist who is actually 6 ft tall and dresses like a wolf during the attacks.

To me, it seems the werewolf genre has not done well in at least a decade.
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I think that the Cursed is probably one of the few good werewolf movies in the last five years at least. I recommend checking that out.
 
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Cistern Rumbler said:
Paranormal Activity cost 15k to make (and then in post ended up spending an extra 200k), and Eraserhead cost 10k in 1970's USD which today is like 50k.
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Don't forget about the OG Blair Witch movie from 1999, which cost $60k to make, but was rumored to cost nearly $20-25k to make when the movie was first screened, but actually costs $500-750k altogether including post-production, plus an additional $1 million for marketing by Artisan (now known as Lionsgate).
 
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Cistern Rumbler said:
Paranormal Activity cost 15k to make (and then in post ended up spending an extra 200k), and Eraserhead cost 10k in 1970's USD which today is like 50k.
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So it had the same budget as PA but managed to show even more footage of a house with nothing going in in it than it's predecessor, and around the same amount of cheap spoopy jump scares.

El mariachi had a budget of 10k and they did so much more with that rather than just film the interior of a house and call it experimental 2deep4u art.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
15K still isn't a lot. It's something but it's not some Paranormal Activity bullshit. But I will have to respectfully disagree with your assertion.
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$15K is pretty low these days. The budget of some solid indie horror movies for comparison:

Terrifier 2 (2022): $250,000
Terrifier (2016): $35,000
The Void (2016): $82,500
Resolution (2012): $20,000
The Battery (2012): $6,000
A Horrible Way to Die (2010): $75,000
The Signal (2007): $50,000
 
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A Rastafarian Skeleton said:
El mariachi had a budget of 10k and they did so much more with that rather than just film the interior of a house and call it experimental 2deep4u art.
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Cistern Rumbler said:
El mariachi had a budget of 10k but it was filmed in Mexico, so that budget probably went further than usual.
But it's not really about the budget but how you use it. If your ideas suck, no amount of money will change that.
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El Mariachi reported budget is a lie, people who worked on movie said it cost significantly more. Rodriguez aunt was exec at Paramount his entire self-made origin story is as fake as Jeff Bezos's self-made millionaire nonsense.
 
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A Rastafarian Skeleton said:
If you watch it with friends they probably won't allow you to pick the movies anymore afterwards
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Thanks for assuming I have friends.

urr13 account said:
El Mariachi reported budget is a lie, people who worked on movie said it cost significantly more. Rodriguez aunt was exec at Paramount his entire self-made origin story is as fake as Jeff Bezos's self-made millionaire nonsense.
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Got a source for any of that? I've never heard it before, and I get nothing trying to Google any of it.
 
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TV's Adam West said:
It came to me in a spiritual vision.
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John Hyams has a new pandemic slasher coming out.


Hesitant but interested, just because I love his Universal Soldier films so much.
 
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Cistern Rumbler said:
John Hyams has a new pandemic slasher coming out.


Hesitant but interested, just because I love his Universal Soldier films so much.
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I might give it a shot if I'm bored because it doesn't look too new or interesting BUT I loved Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning.
 
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Cistern Rumbler said:
John Hyams has a new pandemic slasher coming out.


Hesitant but interested, just because I love his Universal Soldier films so much.
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I don't know, looks like it will be another bunch of unwatchable retards getting scared but not killed (because!), and then eventually overcoming an even more retarded killer with girlpower and sassiness. If I hear different, I might watch, but that's all I'm getting from the trailer.
 
Did anybody see his previous thriller, Alone?


Does it suck? Maybe basing my hopes on Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, a movie almost 11 years old, is a bad idea.
 
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Did anybody see his previous thriller, Alone?


Does it suck? Maybe basing my hopes on Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, a movie almost 11 years old, is a bad idea.
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It's been a minute since I saw it, but I remember Alone being a pretty solid, slow-burn that's like a very low-key version of The Hitcher. The thing I remember most though is that it did a really great job of depicting what it feels like to be in the Appalachia area of Kentucky/West Virginia where it is just isolated as fuck and even being on the main roads still feels like the middle of nowhere.
 
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