The table below shows the low budget horror/thriller movies in our database (an inflation adjusted budget of less than $2 million).
Movie Name | Director | Year | Jump Count | Jump Scare Rating | Netflix (US) |
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30 Miles from Nowhere | Caitlin Koller | 2018 | 5 | 1.5 | No |
31 | Rob Zombie | 2016 | 8 | 2.5 | No |
8213: Gacy House | Anthony Fankhauser | 2010 | 2 | 0.5 | No |
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | Ana Lily Amirpour | 2014 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
Absentia | Mike Flanagan | 2011 | 8 | 2.0 | No |
All Hallows’ Eve | Damien Leone | 2013 | 13 | 3.0 | No |
Aquaslash | Renaud Gauthier | 2019 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
Area 51 | Oren Peli | 2015 | 4 | 1.0 | No |
Axiom | Nicholas Woods | 2018 | 4 | 2.0 | No |
Backcountry | Adam MacDonald | 2014 | 4 | 0.5 | Yes |
Banshee Chapter | Blair Erickson | 2013 | 22 | 5.0 | No |
Berlin Syndrome | Cate Shortland | 2017 | 1 | 0.5 | No |
Black Christmas | Sophia Takal | 2019 | 8 | 2.5 | No |
Black Wake | Jeremiah Kipp | 2018 | 2 | 0.5 | No |
Bubba Ho-Tep | Don Cascarelli | 2002 | 9 | 0.5 | No |
Butterfly Kisses | Erik Kristopher Myers | 2018 | 2 | 1.0 | No |
Camp Twilight | Brandon Amelotte | 2020 | 3 | 1.0 | No |
Cell | Tod Williams | 2016 | 5 | 2.0 | No |
Chernobyl Diaries | Bradley Parker | 2012 | 16 | 3.5 | Yes |
Cherry Tree | David Keating | 2015 | 5 | 1.5 | No |
Child Eater | Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen | 2016 | 8 | 2.0 | No |
Children of Sorrow | Jourdan McClure | 2012 | 2 | 0.5 | No |
Clown | Jon Watts | 2014 | 11 | 3.0 | No |
Coming Soon | Sophon Sakdaphisit | 2008 | 11 | 3.0 | No |
Creep | Patrick Kack-Brice | 2014 | 10 | 3.0 | Yes |
Creep | Christopher Smith | 2004 | 9 | 3.0 | No |
Creep 2 | Patrick Brice | 2017 | 6 | 2.0 | Yes |
Cube | Vincenzo Natali | 1997 | 1 | 0.5 | No |
Cyberbully | Ben Chanan | 2015 | 1 | 1.0 | No |
Dark Was The Night | Jack Heller | 2014 | 16 | 3.0 | No |
Dead End | Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Fabrice Canepa | 2003 | 9 | 2.5 | No |
Death of a Vlogger | Graham Hughes | 2019 | 14 | 4.0 | No |
Deathgasm | Jason Lei Howden | 2015 | 7 | 2.0 | No |
Deep Dark | Michael Medaglia | 2015 | 2 | 1.0 | No |
Dementia | Mike Testin | 2015 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
Devil in the Dark | Tim Brown | 2017 | 2 | 0.5 | No |
Devil’s Pass | Renny Harlin | 2013 | 10 | 2.5 | No |
Digging Up the Marrow | Adam Green | 2014 | 5 | 2.5 | No |
Dreamkatcher | Kerry Harris | 2020 | 4 | 1.5 | No |
Emelie | Michael Thelin | 2015 | 3 | 0.5 | Yes |
Fantasy Island | Jeff Wadlow | 2020 | 13 | 2.5 | No |
Fear Clinic | Robert Hall | 2014 | 13 | 3.0 | No |
Forbidden Siren | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | 2006 | 5 | 1.0 | No |
Grave Encounters 2 | John Poliquin | 2012 | 21 | 4.0 | No |
Halloween | John Carpenter | 1978 | 13 | 2.5 | No |
Haunt | Scott Beck & Bryan Woods | 2019 | 16 | 4.0 | No |
Here Alone | Rod Blackhurst | 2016 | 2 | 0.5 | Yes |
His House | Remi Weekes | 2020 | 8 | 2.5 | Yes |
Host | Rob Savage | 2020 | 23 | 4.0 | No |
Hotel Inferno | Giulio De Santi | 2013 | 3 | 1.0 | No |
Hotel Inferno 2: The Cathedral of Pain | Giulio De Santi, Tiziana Machella | 2017 | 5 | 1.5 | No |
Hounds of Love | Ben Young | 2016 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
Hush | Mike Flanagan | 2016 | 7 | 2.5 | Yes |
I Am Not a Serial Killer | Billy O’Brien | 2016 | 3 | 1.0 | No |
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House | Oz Perkins | 2016 | 4 | 0.5 | Yes |
Kill List | Ben Wheatley | 2011 | 1 | 0.5 | No |
Koko-di Koko-da | Johannes Nyholm | 2020 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
Kolobos | Daniel Liatowitsch, David Todd Ocvirk | 1999 | 4 | 1.0 | No |
Lake Mungo | Joel Anderson | 2008 | 1 | 0.5 | No |
Living Dark: The Story of Ted the Caver | David Hunt | 2013 | 14 | 3.5 | No |
Lo | Travis Betz | 2009 | 2 | 0.5 | No |
Lost Creek | Colin Adams-Toomey | 2016 | 2 | 0.5 | No |
Maléfique | Eric Valette | 2002 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
Malevolent | Olaf de Fleur Johannesson | 2018 | 8 | 3.0 | Yes |
Megan Is Missing | Michael Goi | 2011 | 1 | 0.5 | No |
Occult Angel | Andy Roberts | 2018 | 3 | 1.0 | No |
Paranormal Activity | Oren Peli | 2007 | 10 | 3.5 | No |
Phoenix Forgotten | Justin Barber | 2017 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
Resolution | Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | 2012 | 2 | 0.5 | No |
Restoration | Zack Ward | 2016 | 10 | 3.0 | No |
Ringu: Kanzenban | Chisui Takigawa | 1995 | 2 | 0.5 | No |
Saw | James Wan | 2004 | 6 | 2.0 | No |
Sequence Break | Graham Skipper | 2017 | 3 | 0.5 | No |
Shadow People | Matthew Arnold | 2013 | 10 | 2.5 | No |
Skinwalker Ranch | Devin McGinn | 2013 | 5 | 1.5 | No |
Splinter | Toby Wilkins | 2008 | 10 | 3.0 | No |
Stake Land | Jim Mickle | 2010 | 1 | 0.5 | No |
Starry Eyes | Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer | 2014 | 9 | 2.0 | No |
Terrifier | Damien Leone | 2017 | 18 | 3.5 | Yes |
The Abandoned | Eytan Rockaway | 2015 | 21 | 3.5 | No |
The Atticus Institute | Chris Sparling | 2015 | 13 | 3.5 | No |
The Babadook | Jennifer Kent | 2014 | 11 | 3.0 | No |
The Barrens | Darren Lynn Bousman | 2012 | 5 | 1.0 | No |
The Blair Witch Project | Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez | 1999 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
The Boy | Craig Macneill | 2015 | 1 | 0.5 | No |
The Cropsey Incident | Julian Grant | 2017 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
The Den | Zachary Donohue | 2013 | 14 | 4.0 | No |
The Devil Inside | William Brent Bell | 2012 | 8 | 2.5 | No |
The Echo | Yam Laranas | 2004 | 7 | 1.5 | No |
The Endless | Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | 2017 | 7 | 2.5 | No |
The Evil Dead | Sam Raimi | 1981 | 22 | 4.0 | No |
The Eyes of My Mother | Nicolas Pesce | 2016 | 0 | 0.0 | Yes |
The Gallows | Travis Cluff & Chris Lofing | 2015 | 21 | 4.0 | No |
The Gracefield Incident | Mathieu Ratthe | 2017 | 10 | 2.5 | No |
The Hallow | Corin Hardy | 2015 | 18 | 3.5 | No |
The Heretics | Chad Archibald | 2017 | 4 | 1.5 | Yes |
The House of the Devil | Ti West | 2009 | 4 | 1.0 | No |
The House on Pine Street | Aaron Keeling, Austin Keeling | 2015 | 5 | 1.0 | No |
The Innkeepers | Ti West | 2011 | 9 | 2.0 | No |
The Invisible Man | Leigh Whannell | 2020 | 6 | 3.0 | No |
The Invitation | Karyn Kusama | 2015 | 5 | 1.0 | Yes |
The Last Broadcast | Stefan Avalos, Lance Weiler | 1998 | 1 | 0.5 | No |
The Lodge | Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz | 2020 | 5 | 1.5 | No |
The Love Witch | Anna Biller | 2016 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
The McPherson Tape | Dean Alioto | 1989 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
The Neighbor | Marcus Dunstan | 2016 | 3 | 1.0 | No |
The Nightmare Gallery | Gene Blalock | 2019 | 2 | 0.5 | No |
The Pact | Nicholas McCarthy | 2012 | 12 | 3.0 | No |
The Possession of Michael King | David Jung | 2014 | 20 | 4.0 | No |
The Poughkeepsie Tapes | John Erick Dowdle | 2007 | 4 | 1.0 | No |
The Pyramid | Grégory Levasseur | 2014 | 14 | 4.0 | Yes |
The Quiet Ones | John Pogue | 2014 | 23 | 4.0 | No |
The Sand | Isaac Gabaeff | 2015 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
The Stalker | John Giorgio | 2020 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
The Taking of Deborah Logan | Adam Robitel | 2014 | 19 | 3.5 | No |
The Town That Dreaded Sundown | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | 2014 | 8 | 3.0 | No |
The Tunnel | Carlo Ledesma | 2011 | 6 | 2.5 | No |
The Vast of Night | Andrew Patterson | 2020 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
The Void | Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski | 2016 | 8 | 2.0 | Yes |
They Look Like People | Perry Blackshear | 2015 | 2 | 0.5 | No |
Under the Shadow | Babak Anvari | 2016 | 9 | 3.5 | Yes |
Unfriended | Leo Gabriadze | 2014 | 5 | 3.0 | No |
Vacancy 2: First Cut | Eric Bross | 2008 | 5 | 1.0 | No |
Vacancy 3: Terror Trap | Dan Garcia | 2010 | 1 | 0.5 | No |
Visions | Kevin Greutert | 2015 | 10 | 3.5 | No |
Watch If You Dare | Jill Gevargizian, Andy Stewart, Christopher G. Moore | 2018 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
We Are Still Here | Ted Geoghegan | 2015 | 12 | 3.0 | No |
What the Waters Left Behind | Luciano Onetti, Nicolás Onetti | 2017 | 5 | 1.0 | No |
Who Was Phone? | David Daan, Steve Daan | 2020 | 8 | 2.5 | No |
Wolf Creek | Greg McLean | 2005 | 0 | 0.0 | No |
X – He’s Always Watching | AJ Meadows | 2013 | 9 | 3.0 | No |