For years, the dream of making a big movie has come with a pretty intimidating checklist: money, connections, studio backing, expensive cameras, huge crews… then along came Backrooms and Obsession, films that started smaller and proved audiences will be eager to see new ideas, new aesthetics, and different voices. These are ambitious, strange films built outside the traditional system, using Blender and other low-cost tools, and that might be exactly why they connect. Backrooms has made $367 million globally on a $10 budget, so it definitely connected.
For Eliot Mack, CEO and co-founder of Lightcraft Technology, these films are a sign of where things are heading. “The key movies in every generation are the ones that rewrite the rules,” he says. “What you are seeing now is the speed at which new talent gets a shot at rewriting the rules.”
