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Anyone know the budget? (working on a best low-budget horror list)


Hey all,

Does anyone know the 13 Seconds budget? I'm working on a list of best low-budget horror movies. I mean, you can tell just by looking at this thing it's zero-budget, but I was wondering if the director ever mentioned any specifics.

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Most of the people who worked on this were not paid anything. The sets were made of plywood and cheap paint, sheets of latex, etc., household stuff. But still, it takes a lot of money to make a movie, no matter how good or bad the movie ends up being. The computer software to edit a film is expensive now, but it was worse back then...

There were a lot of problems with the sound in the live scenes, so just about all of the lines had to be dubbed in in post-processing, and it looks like that was done rather hastily. When I met Jeff, it seemed that he was pretty much a one-man show, doing all of the editing, but I only caught up with him once. The soundstage where a lot of the interiors were shot was in a building in Monroe, Michigan, and some shots were done an hour or so drive from there in Northfield. I don't know if these were places Jeff owned or rented or what, but I imagine all of that sort of thing costs a lot of money, too.

I've grabbed a camcorder before and tried to throw together a movie, and it was a lot more hassle than anyone who hasn't tried it would think- but the key is to assemble a good team of people who are committed to a vision of some sort, to spend months working on something and putting a lot into it.

Not that any of that excuses how bad this turned out. I worked on the film, and I am ashamed to mention it to anyone I know. It seemed like it would have been a cool thing to be associated with when it was being done. I had no idea what the finished product was going to look like. In fact, I never heard from anyone else associated with the movie when it came out- I found the DVD for rent at a local Blockbuster, and was shocked it made it that far. I had thought that my work never made it into the film, because Jeff told me it was no good, and I eventually got fed up with the changing direction I was receiving all of the time, so I quit. But I was shocked when I heard a lot of the stuff I did edited in weird ways, but included in the film nonetheless.

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