The cheapest looking movie you ever saw...

[Svengoolie 3]

Oh! I forgot about They, aka Invasion from Inner Earth. That has to be the cheapest-looking movie I've seen. It has:

-A mysterious light, which is just someone just outside the camera's view shining a flashlight at a wall.
-A paper-plate space ship, shot in closeup, so close you can see the ribs on the plate.
-Another spaceship that looks like a Styrofoam ball & ring covered in aluminum foil. Also shot as a closeup.
-Amateur actors.
-A bunch of people running up-and down a street screaming, while orange smoke bombs simulate some sort of disaster.
-No real sets; everything's shot on location in a couple of cabins in the woods.
-A cheap synthesized rip-off of The Good The Bad & The Ugly's theme song.

Let's compare They to Plan 9 from Outer Space. Plan 9 had pro actors, decent stock music, actual sets, matte paintings, real (off the shelf) models, superimposition, and a cool sound effect for alien metal.  They beats Plan 9 as the cheapest looking movie I've seen!

Again i think a color cheap mocie looks worse than a B&W one.

I will say at least invasion from inner earth had a few decent attempts at intelligence and thoughtful exchanges.

[Rev. Powell]

AFTER LAST SEASON. Basically shot in one house with pieces of paper taped to the walls to identify sets. Cheap software used for "special effects."

You can see the cardboard box "MRI machine" in the trailer.

http://youtu.be/C7qCOe8WG4I

[Gabriel Knight]

AFTER LAST SEASON. Basically shot in one house with pieces of paper taped to the walls to identify sets. Cheap software used for "special effects."

You can see the cardboard box "MRI machine" in the trailer.

http://youtu.be/C7qCOe8WG4I

I've been reading the reviews in IMDB for a while now, yet I haven't seen the movie still. Not only the creator (or someone else involved in it) made tons of fake accounts to boost the score in IMDB, but it's also worth noticing that this piece of trash had a budget of 5 MILLION DOLLARS. It's Foodfight! all over again.

[Pacman000]

AFTER LAST SEASON. Basically shot in one house with pieces of paper taped to the walls to identify sets. Cheap software used for "special effects."

You can see the cardboard box "MRI machine" in the trailer.

http://youtu.be/C7qCOe8WG4I

I've been reading the reviews in IMDB for a while now, yet I haven't seen the movie still. Not only the creator (or someone else involved in it) made tons of fake accounts to boost the score in IMDB, but it's also worth noticing that this piece of trash had a budget of 5 MILLION DOLLARS. It's Foodfight! all over again.

As I understand it they tried to rotoscope-out their locations & replace them with virtual sets. That's probably where most of the money went. I assume they ran out of money & released what they had.

The movie's website had some side-by-side screenshots of what scenes looked like before & after FX were added. If I remember right, the final results looked good.