12 Hidden Gem Zombie Movies You've Probably Never Seen

The Battery's $6000 budget may seem exceptionally cheap in a world in which even a fairly lo-fi horror can have a cost that runs into the millions, but, next to 2008's Colin, The Battery looks like a mega-bucks blockbuster.

Promoted with the tagline "The £45 zombie movie", Colin was shot on an old handheld camcorder using digital tapes that a TV studio were throwing away and edited by director Marc Price on his laptop using a version of Adobe Premiere that had come bundled with a video capture card he already owned. Actor Alastair Kirton role agreed to perform the title role for free and the zombie performers were volunteers recruited through adverts on Facebook and MySpace.

While the actual cost of Colin may have been marginally more than the headline-grabbing £45, this remains a raw, DIY, stripped-down, ultra-minimalist experience. The whole movie focuses on a single character travelling through London after being bitten and turned to a zombie.

It may be expectedly rough around the edges, but Colin does a good job of showing the poignancy of the small lingering shreds of vestigial humanity in its virtually braindead protagonist, kind of like if there was a whole movie from the perspective of Day Of The Dead's Bub.

Price has continued to make low budget genre films, although his latest - deep space survival story Dune Drifter - may have shot partly in his living room but still cost a comparatively whopping $350,000.