10 Movies That Were Only Made With VERY WEIRDLY SPECIFIC Conditions
5. There Had To Be A Kill Every 8 Minutes - The Signal
It goes without saying that young, hungry filmmakers have a lot less power at the bargaining table - that is, none at all - and so are generally far more amenable to whatever changes a studio wants, as long as it means they're allowed to make their movie.
Case in point, we have 2007's The Signal, a low-budget horror film directed by independent filmmakers David Bruckner, Dan Bush, and Jacob Gentry.
While promoting his recent horror film The Night House, Bruckner revealed that The Signal only ever got made because he agreed to one of the financier's very specific conditions regarding the movie's body count. He said:
"There was a foreign distribution company who had given us a breakdown and said, 'We will guarantee the finance if you have a kill every eight minutes."
Granted, Brucker and his fellow filmmakers clearly had grisly murder on their mind already while conceiving the film, but assuredly delivered above and beyond what the money-men demanded.
The Signal ended up grossing over $400,000 and boosted the careers of all three filmmakers, so this was most certainly a win-win for everyone.