A low-budget film or low-budget movie is a motion picture shot with little to no funding from a major film studio or private investor.

One Cut of the Dead is a 2017 Japanese independent zombie comedy film written and directed by Shin'ichirō Ueda. It follows a team of filmmakers and actors who are tasked with making True Fear, a zombie horror film for live television that must be shot in a single take; the first third of One Cut of the Dead depicts True Fear as a film within the film, before going back in time to show the origins of the project, and its eventual shooting from the perspective of the cast and crew.