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Re: Re: Related: Have there been American movies in other genres with tiny budgets that were big hits the way that some of the famous horror movies were?
Posted by Joe (@joe) on Nov. 2, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
Some of those aren’t American, but you do have some good examples there. Wikipedia lists Borat as costing $18 million.
I could invoke Assault on Precinct 13, but that doesn’t feel all that far from Carpenter’s horror movies.