Word: low-budget
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True, Thirteen Ghosts doesn’t pretend to be anything more than a low-budget horror flick released in time for Halloween, but it doesn’t even fare very well at that. Perhaps owing to the film’s (at times intentionally) laughable dialogue and generally unoriginal direction, genuine frights are few and far between. The visual effects and set design do have their moments, but the ghosts themselves too often look like tired haunted house props. And while the story holds the audience’s attention well enough, its supposed surprise twist is rather...
...wrongly killed and awakens to avenge his death. However, he fails so miserably at evoking fear that he elicits more laughs than anything else. The antiquated special effects are equally laughable; the “blood” looks strangely similar to tomato paste. In short, Bones is a low-budget venture, which is a laudable effort. But there was no thought behind this movie at all, and simply relying on Snoop’s popularity won’t get Bones very far. In short, skip to the refreshments...
...fans of small market ball-clubs understand a simple fact: low-budget teams have few good players, and they will all eventually sign with the Yankees...
...blond, blue-eyed onetime Columbia University journalism student catapulted to matinee-idol status with a lead role in the 1959 teen love story A Summer Place, opposite Sandra Dee. Donahue abused drugs and drink as his career declined in the 1970s, but sobered up before appearing in such low-budget films as Bad Blood (1989) and John Waters' Cry-Baby...
...Simpson's voracious appetite for drugs. "You knew it was coming," says Bruckheimer of his partner's 1996 overdose. "It's amazing that he lived as long as he did." Simpson had been considered the duo's creative force, but since his death, Bruckheimer has proved himself with low-budget winners and big-budget blockbusters. Last year he pulled in nearly $280 million at domestic theaters with Gone in Sixty Seconds, Coyote Ugly and Remember the Titans. He has also scored on U.S. TV with the crime drama...