10 Great Modern Horror Movies That Were Made For Next To Nothing
2. The Battery (2012)
It may have cost only $6,000 to make, but writer-director Jeremy Gardner's debut film was among the most widely seen and talked about horror films on the film festival circuit in 2012. Not unlike Colin, it takes an intimate, ground level view of a zombie apocalypse, but this time centres on two mismatched survivors wandering aimlessly in an imposing yet beautiful American wilderness.
Gardner also stars as Ben alongside Adam Cronheim's Mickey, the two guys having almost nothing in common beyond the fact they're still human, and they used to play baseball together (the root of the title). Flowing effortlessly from boyish comedy, to 'mumblecore' drama, to highly tense horror, The Battery isn't a film that everyone will like, but nonetheless it can be agreed there's no other zombie movie quite like it.
Gardner and the team at O.hannah Films have made a follow-up in similarly low-budget comedy Tex Montana Will Survive!, which - following a unique Kickstarter campaign - they are set to release online for free,