--> Low Budget Sci-Fi "GEMS" !!! <--

I'll have to check out Moebius because PI is one of my favorite films of all time. Off the top of my head I can only think of a few but I'll check my collection later.

Almost any film by Andrei Tarkovsky will seriously fuck up your head. He directed the original solyaris (1972) that Steven Soderbergh remade into Solaris a few years ago.

If you're going to give him a shot I highly recommend starting with Stalker (WIKI):

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The setting of the film is a tiny town on the outskirts of "The Zone", a wilderness area which has been cordoned off by the government. The film's main character, the Stalker, works as a guide to bring people in and out of the Zone, to a room which is said to grant "the deepest, innermost" wishes. Residual effects of an unnamed previous occurrence have transformed an otherwise mundane rural area scattered with ruined buildings into an area where the normal laws of physics no longer apply.

Mirror is probably his most intense and inaccessible film to people who aren't familiar with his style but once you are it's great

Another film that is so weird and sci-fi that you'll probably want to write off after 15 minutes is Last Year at Marienbad. It's about the memories of a man meeting a woman at a mansion in France the year before. Or is it? The memories are disjointed much the same way our real memories are. You remember a noise, smell or person but very little else about your surroundings. The idea you remember permeates what might have really happened. Some people consider it the film equivalent of Salvador Dali's famous painting "The Persistence of Memory." Highly recommended but it requires extreme patience.

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And just for the record the only film listed so far that's truly low budget would be primer.

edit: I just remembered this TV show called Dark Shadows from the 60s. It was a gothic soap opera that was filmed live so some of the episodes had hilarious flaws and mistakes. People hiding behind props, stage hands walking around, actors forgetting lines and improvising. Great stuff. Don't watch it unless you're with friends or stoned or you'll be disappointed. You can find torrents for the whole series.

Not really low budget but a must see (quick, before the remake gets done!!):

Awesome epic thread! I don't got much to add though, since most of the movies I've seen on this category already fit on Warby's post!

I didn't knew Equilibrium was low budget tho!

This thread needs more John Carpenter goodness:

They Live: One of the best movies ever. This is where duke nukem got most of his famous quotes from.

An amazing movie with amazing music, an amazing main character and amazing backgrounds.

Another Carpenter classic.

Been wanting to see the original Stalker film every since I worked on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. back in ye good olde dayes.

It's creepy how the film came out 7 years before the Chernobyl accident.

The Thing's f/x don't hold up over time, but the overall movie/concept really hold up. What a sick film.

The Thing is awesome.

Stalker was boring and way too cerebral. I wanted awesome crazy weird atmosphere and got idiots talking about stupid shit in the brush for 4 hours. Solyaris was better.

Not sure about the genre, but David Lynch's Eraserhead is low budget and deeply disturbing. Not sure what to make of it, but watch it and you won't forget it.

Not sure how low budget it needs to be but Fire In the Sky is a pretty cool film

The Cube:

That was a fanstastic film. Incredible the levels of atmosphere that can be achieved in one reusable box.

Escape from New York:

I'd been wanting to watch this one for a while. Although the actual plot is pretty good the film is really bad and is a big disappointment compared to The Thing.

Re-animator

My contribution to the thread. Discovered this via a Cracked.com article. It's about a Doctor that discovers a way to reanimate the recently deceased, with often hilarious results.

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Re-Animator is the shit!

Its sequels aren't as good as the first one but are good B-movies nonetheless. I recommend watching other Stuart Gordon's movies if you like Re-Animator, he has made some of the most awesome adaptations I ever saw, like the Black Cat in Masters of Horror season 2. A true masterpiece if you ask me, yet very different from his other movies.

I second Outland, Eraserhead and Carpenter's movies, expecially They Live with its infamous combat scene in the streets.

Omfg they've forgtten Star Wars!!!!!!!!!!

Although I'm quite sure it wasn't low budget at the time I recommend Brazil. It's funny, surreal and depressing in equal measures.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... ie&view=2#

Damn I thought I was someone who knew a lot of movies. looks like this is a good source.

Cool thread, I've just ordered a few of these as a result.

My contribution is "Dark Hour", or "La Hora Fria" to give its original name. It's a 2008 Spanish horror/sci-fi movie about a group of people who are forced to live in some kind of bunker to avoid the threat of the "strangers" and "invisibles" - 2 different types of entity that are extremely dangerous to the survivors. The film joins this group after they have clearly been living in the bunker for some time, and follows their daily routine and fight for survival.

It isn't perfect - some of the acting is mixed, and the action scenes can be a bit poor - but it presents a hugely intriguing world that really makes you wonder about the backstory. Where are these people? When is it set? Are they the only survivors? You're left to figure out your answers to these questions as the movie goes on rather than being spoon fed all the facts about the situation, and I found it to be really quite captivating. I'd highly recommend it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484273/

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You mean you have nothing nice to say about it except that Sean Connery was in it, and therefor it was gold!

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(ps: Sean Connery makes everything gold).

Maybe not low budget (but they didnt spend much to market it) however it is a GEM.

Sunshine

Some would argue that the third act (please dont spoil it) is a bit odd however I enjoyed it .

As well i think Moon is going to be one of these GEMS :}