Low Budget Films with Big Budget Success
Paranormal Activity – $15,000 budget
$15,000? All they had to buy was a few baby monitors. Anyway, this simple, but frightening movie made $193 million! It also launched the career of green director, Oren Peli.
In the following movies (Paranormal Activity 2) the makers resorted to a ghost thermal camera. This allowed them to capture the happenings in a much better manner. Going professional in terms of the use of camera allowed for better light capture and improved editing. They were able to improve on the movie-making part by using the ghost thermal cameras.
