Good Low Budget and Independent Flicks
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 02:34
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maybe its time to go back and watch old horror like Pumpkin Head
or perhaps South Korean again
The Round Up maybe
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Goldfinger is an upcoming Hong Kong action crime thriller Although if rumors I read on the nudget are correct it might be twice the budget allowed in this thread 30-45 million to Us dollars, usually HK made movies for the prices of peanuts
Denmark
Nice Camera work and costumes, I'm not sure about the budget
Promised Land - poor soldier arrives in 1755 on barren Jutland heath with a single goal to follow the king's call to cultivate the land and thereby achieve wealth / honors
Seems to be the story of a real guy Ludvig Kahlen, who set out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath
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Directed by Felix Chong, and starring Tony Leung and Andy Lau and set in the 1980s
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I recently watched a video on YouTube called "When the Director forgets to say Cut", that discussed scenes that were filmed in one continuous take, such as the awesome hallway scene from the otherwise middling TV show Daredevil that Netflix put out before Disney bought up Marvel and removed it from cannon.
But the main emphasis of the video was an entire 2 hour and 8 minute film called Victoria from 2015 that was filmed in one continuous shot.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4226388/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_vi
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I've been meaning to watch it, but it's just so hard for me to start a movie or a TV show these days. When I get around to watching it I'll let you know if it's any good or not.
It was filmed for less than half-a-million Euros in 2014, so whatever the exchange rate was back then it would certainly fit in this thread.
I'm not expecting Grade A cinema here. From what I've gathered, the entire screenplay of the movie consisted of about a dozen pages and the actors were directed to not only improvise, but to never use the same line in two rehearsals or two takes. He didn't want them to collect a "best of" material list and wanted the dialogue to come off as authentic and in the moment. As the director, he just told them how they should be acting toward each other and what they were feeling at different points in the movie, and the dialogue was left up to them. There were only minor things the director and crew could do to move the plot along when it needed to be, such as calling one of the actors on their cell phones.
But to me the idea that you could even film an entire 2+ hour movie that bounces around from set to set in one single take is fascinating. It would have to be horribly boring or the worst acting I've ever seen to make me dislike it given what they pulled off here.
It appears they had enough money in the budget to try it 3 times. The first time the acting was far too wooden and reserved. The second time went way to far the other way and was sloppy and off the chain. The director feels that the 3rd take was perfect.
In order to even get the funding from the investors, he had to promise them that he would also make a traditionally edited version of the movie just in case the continuous shot didn't pan out.
Here's the scene from Daredevil in case you never saw it or you forgot how good it was:
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
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Have you ever seen Rope by Hitchcock? Or know of it?
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I have not, and I do not. It was one continuous take, I gather?
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
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Maybe not a full movie but a scifi film short
'Dragon Fruit'
there are other channels like Dust, there tv shows like Black Mirror, are also radio visionary podcasts X minus 1 retro scifi, grimdark radio cosmic horror, Find Us Alive, BBC Dangerous Visions, Vast horizon Strange case of starship Iris or 'Love Death and Robots'
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Might be ok, 'Acid' a France Belgium production, 2023 disaster film, thriller, apocalyptic and drama like.
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'Rope' Alfred Hitchcock another on the To-Watch list
also those Hitchcock movies almost always had great emotional Orchestra sound
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
"When the Director forgets to say Cut"
For a one take Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón is well done and I know DeNiro is kinda unpopular as he got more politically crazy but 'Taxi Driver' and 'King of Comedy' spring to mind without watching the video the long pans that brings you through his mind and tells story and emotion of a scene, Revisionist Western and Spaghetti Westerns would do it to increase tension but it would be interesting to see how possible it is to make a good movie while doing the longest of long shots without saying cut, Game of Thrones, Oldboy did that 'One Take' fight scene, I have not seen 'Extraction'. Silent House -- a re-imagining of the Uruguayan horror film La Casa Muda is another.
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the original Silent House,
La Casa Muda
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