Movies.com Looks at Cheapest, Most Successful Films Ever

The ranking system will perhaps be a bit arbitrary to some, but over at Movies.com, Jeff Otto takes a look back at nine of the cheapest and most successful independently financed films of the modern era. Zeitgeist influences all, no doubt, from Clerks and Swingers to Napoleon Dynamite and Paranormal Activity, and proof that complacency born of abundant resources is often the enemy of imagination.