10 Great Low Budget Movies Which Cleaned Up At The Box Office

3. Night Of The Living Dead

Another genre defining horror movie which went on to surpass all expectations at the box office and rake in a small fortune came in 1968 with the release of George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead, which introduced the world to the slow walking, flesh eating undead we're all familiar with. Night of the Living Dead could almost have been written as a stage play, since almost the entire movie takes place in and around a small farmstead in middle America. Featuring some of the goriest scenes anyone had seen at that time, ticket sales certainly weren't hurt by the controversy, and unlike Halloween, Romero went on to make several more sequels, the first two of which managed to up the ante both in terms of horror spectacle and quality. Budget: $114,000 Box office: $42 million