6 Movies That Were Improved by Budget Constraints
You might expect budget limitations to result in mediocre films—and that certainly happens.
Christopher Reeve regretted making the low-budget Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), describing the movie as a “catastrophe from start to finish” that dealt “a huge blow to my career.”
But budget constraints aren’t always bad news for a film. Sometimes, filmmakers find creative solutions to financial limitations that make the movie better than it would have been with unlimited cash.
For example, George Romero made Night of the Living Dead independently on a tiny budget of $114,000, which meant nearly all of his directorial choices were based on cost.
Author's summary: Budget constraints can improve films.