If Only James Cameron Had Seen this First.
I’ll admit to being more than a little shocked that Russ didn’t have this up first, but it’s too good to pass up. This is “Ataque de Panico,” a sub five minute science fiction film directed and produced by Fede Alvarez. Pretty cool, but nothing you haven’t seen before in some form or another, right? But I wonder if your opinion might change if you knew that it cost $300 to make.
Yep, that’s not a typo. If the story is accurate, Alvarez, a native of Uruguay, dropped three hundred smackers to make something which isn’t that far off from some of the material in Independence Day (with considerably less Randy Quaid). (Avatar, by contrast, cost four hundred million to complete.) Within a week he had offers from major Hollywood studios for his services, and ended up signing a thirty million dollar deal with Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures. There’s been some heavy skepticism that someone could produce any vaguely professional film for $300, let alone something this impressive, but until I hear different I’m going with the story, for the cool factor if nothing else.