Hollywood often blows millions of
dollars on advertising but not in the
cases of these movies so Sal Collier
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
sleeper hits back having to get you
Barbara a sleeper hit is a movie that
didn’t have a huge opening or one that
was either not promoted much or promoted
very subtly by its studio with sneak
previews and that sort of thing and that
went on to have huge mainstream success
you know Creed’s the best I guess off to
do the best okay these are not to be
confused with cult hits which also gain
huge followings but are more underground
successes you human paraquat number 10
Night of the Living Dead wave of murder
which is sweeping the eastern third of
the nation is being committed by
creatures who feast upon the flesh of
their victims now considered a hallmark
of horror films this zombie flick defied
the odds of its 114 thousand dollar
budget to gross over 30 million dollars
some critics panic for its violence the
George a Romero’s movie broke ground by
casting the first african-american man
in the lead role of a horror movie
if you stake me it also led to the
creation of five sequels and paved the
way for other modern horror classics
like John Carpenter’s Halloween number 9
Easy Rider Oh
a quintessential film of the 60s Easy
Rider defined the sex drugs and rock and
roll generation and the counterculture
of the era do your own thing in your own
time made on a budget of three hundred
and sixty thousand dollars
this film is a love letter to America as
it sees its protagonists take a
motorcycle trip along the West Coast
bringing in over 41 million dollars and
becoming one of the year’s
highest-grossing movies Easy Rider
success skyrocketed Jack Nicholson to
fame and ushered in the new Hollywood
movement yeah hey we did it man we did
it we did it
number eight you know I think the first
one was defective the plus sign looks
more like a division symbol so I remain
unconvinced there tested a mama bear
yurei goes prego before teen pregnancy
was on vogue thanks to MTV
there was this indie darling Juneau
reeled in audiences with its story about
an articulate teenagers unplanned
pregnancy making the serious topic both
hilarious and heartwarming sorry I don’t
know if I’m even ready to be a father
but you’re old this surprise hit even
received four Oscar nods and won for
Best Original Screenplay why your shorts
are like especially gold today my mom
uses color safe bleach go Carol it
earned it’s six point five million
dollar budget back only 20 days after
its release and confirmed Michael Cera
and Ellen Page as breakout stars because
they were talking about in health class
how pregnancy it can often lead to an
infant typically yeah yeah that’s that’s
what happens when our moms and teachers
get pregnant number seven rocky in the
movie Rocky was the major underdog so
it’s fitting that the film had the same
issues but like its titular character
this million dollar film proved itself
by making two hundred and twenty five
million dollars worldwide winning Best
Picture at the Oscar and being preserved
by the National Film registry for its
influence on American culture now is
this problem
how’s it look handsome for a woman I
want you to quit shuckin and jivin and
can stick and move go for the ribs
don’t let that bastard breathe and in
honor of one of the film’s key moments
rocky has also been memorialized on the
steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
number six Mad Max a seemingly simple
plot and newcomer Mel Gibson combined to
make movie history with this Australian
dystopian action flick Mad Max is a road
movie that tells the story of a man
who’s out to restore law and order after
a motorcycle gang wreaks havoc on the
outback this little film cost only four
hundred thousand Australian dollars to
produce but it made over 99 million
spawned two sequels and a reboot over 35
years after its release if you’re lucky
you can heck through your ankle in five
let’s go
number five saw one play game seen as
just another gross out horror movie saw
tells the story of two men chained in a
bathroom who must follow the
instructions of a recording in order to
escape up until now you simply sat in
the shadows watching the small movie was
shot in only 18 days on a budget
of 1.2 million dollars but it went on to
earn 103 million at the worldwide box
office and it produced a multi film
franchise congratulation and just think
this flick almost wasn’t made after the
writers couldn’t get financing in their
native Australia
number four the Blair Witch Project
shaky cameras and next to no plot
doesn’t sound like it it create a
box-office hit but stranger things have
happened
young kids started to disappear and
nobody nobody do anything about why they
were why they were disappearing told by
the found footage of the victims of a
supernatural disappearance the Blair
Witch Project proved to be both
terrifying and profitable where’s my
pack your pack is right there where’s my
pack the movie owes its success to its
low-budget advertising campaign which
saw the filmmakers launch a website
claiming that the story was based on
true events number three
My Big Fat Greek Wedding any work and I
show you how the root of that word is
Greek a romantic comedy not starring an
a-list celebrity doesn’t sound like a
surefire box-office hit but this indeed
defied the odds kimono is come from the
Greek word Simona is mean wynton so what
do you wear in the wintertime to stay
warm aro centered on a Greek woman’s
relationship with a wasp this Tom Hanks
and Rita Wilson produced comedy stayed
in theaters for nearly a year despite
the fact it was never number one at the
u.s. box office okay may I please date
your daughter no it also made history as
the highest-grossing romantic comedy of
all time you can thank the Windex it’s a
mosquito bite put some Windex
number two Napoleon Dynamite last week
Japanese scientist explains place
explosive detonators at the bottom of
lake loch ness to blow nessie out of the
water a Dark Horse for sure Napoleon
Dynamite seemed to be just another
random release from MTV but after word
of mouth reviews it became a cultural
phenomenon becoming part of the teenage
slang
it’s minuscule budget of $400,000 when
compared to the whopping 46 million it
eventually made seems like peanuts
what’s so lighter it’s pretty much my
favorite animal that’s like a lion and a
tiger mixed redford skills and magic and
in fact star Jon Heder was only paid
$1,000 for his performance oh but that
was later readjusted after the film’s
success
before we unveil our number one pick
here are a few honorable mentions I get
the double quarter-pounder with cheese
value meal okay thank you for anything I
don’t feel good today not that I feel
sick but um I just feel really depressed
alright also you should know my writer
and some of some fingernails were coming
loose and I had a black fluid coming out
of my nose and sort of a black vomit
just breathe deep hey calm down
what’s your name your name dot and who
did this to you what who did this to you
you did number one paranormal activity
the flowers are not moving but something
else is the doors freaking moving it’s
not over
if ever there was a little engine that
could have movies this one is it made on
a budget of $15,000 Paranormal Activity
originally looked like a knockoff of the
Blair Witch Project with it’s found
footage and documentary style interviews
telling the story of a couple in a
haunted house but even so the first film
raked in 193 million dollars and spawned
a mega popular franchise do you agree
with our list which movie was your
favorite slow burning hit
more can’t miss top 10s published daily
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
that ain’t no etch-a-sketch this is one
doodle that can’t be undid home skillet
dollars on advertising but not in the
cases of these movies so Sal Collier
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
sleeper hits back having to get you
Barbara a sleeper hit is a movie that
didn’t have a huge opening or one that
was either not promoted much or promoted
very subtly by its studio with sneak
previews and that sort of thing and that
went on to have huge mainstream success
you know Creed’s the best I guess off to
do the best okay these are not to be
confused with cult hits which also gain
huge followings but are more underground
successes you human paraquat number 10
Night of the Living Dead wave of murder
which is sweeping the eastern third of
the nation is being committed by
creatures who feast upon the flesh of
their victims now considered a hallmark
of horror films this zombie flick defied
the odds of its 114 thousand dollar
budget to gross over 30 million dollars
some critics panic for its violence the
George a Romero’s movie broke ground by
casting the first african-american man
in the lead role of a horror movie
if you stake me it also led to the
creation of five sequels and paved the
way for other modern horror classics
like John Carpenter’s Halloween number 9
Easy Rider Oh
a quintessential film of the 60s Easy
Rider defined the sex drugs and rock and
roll generation and the counterculture
of the era do your own thing in your own
time made on a budget of three hundred
and sixty thousand dollars
this film is a love letter to America as
it sees its protagonists take a
motorcycle trip along the West Coast
bringing in over 41 million dollars and
becoming one of the year’s
highest-grossing movies Easy Rider
success skyrocketed Jack Nicholson to
fame and ushered in the new Hollywood
movement yeah hey we did it man we did
it we did it
number eight you know I think the first
one was defective the plus sign looks
more like a division symbol so I remain
unconvinced there tested a mama bear
yurei goes prego before teen pregnancy
was on vogue thanks to MTV
there was this indie darling Juneau
reeled in audiences with its story about
an articulate teenagers unplanned
pregnancy making the serious topic both
hilarious and heartwarming sorry I don’t
know if I’m even ready to be a father
but you’re old this surprise hit even
received four Oscar nods and won for
Best Original Screenplay why your shorts
are like especially gold today my mom
uses color safe bleach go Carol it
earned it’s six point five million
dollar budget back only 20 days after
its release and confirmed Michael Cera
and Ellen Page as breakout stars because
they were talking about in health class
how pregnancy it can often lead to an
infant typically yeah yeah that’s that’s
what happens when our moms and teachers
get pregnant number seven rocky in the
movie Rocky was the major underdog so
it’s fitting that the film had the same
issues but like its titular character
this million dollar film proved itself
by making two hundred and twenty five
million dollars worldwide winning Best
Picture at the Oscar and being preserved
by the National Film registry for its
influence on American culture now is
this problem
how’s it look handsome for a woman I
want you to quit shuckin and jivin and
can stick and move go for the ribs
don’t let that bastard breathe and in
honor of one of the film’s key moments
rocky has also been memorialized on the
steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
number six Mad Max a seemingly simple
plot and newcomer Mel Gibson combined to
make movie history with this Australian
dystopian action flick Mad Max is a road
movie that tells the story of a man
who’s out to restore law and order after
a motorcycle gang wreaks havoc on the
outback this little film cost only four
hundred thousand Australian dollars to
produce but it made over 99 million
spawned two sequels and a reboot over 35
years after its release if you’re lucky
you can heck through your ankle in five
let’s go
number five saw one play game seen as
just another gross out horror movie saw
tells the story of two men chained in a
bathroom who must follow the
instructions of a recording in order to
escape up until now you simply sat in
the shadows watching the small movie was
shot in only 18 days on a budget
of 1.2 million dollars but it went on to
earn 103 million at the worldwide box
office and it produced a multi film
franchise congratulation and just think
this flick almost wasn’t made after the
writers couldn’t get financing in their
native Australia
number four the Blair Witch Project
shaky cameras and next to no plot
doesn’t sound like it it create a
box-office hit but stranger things have
happened
young kids started to disappear and
nobody nobody do anything about why they
were why they were disappearing told by
the found footage of the victims of a
supernatural disappearance the Blair
Witch Project proved to be both
terrifying and profitable where’s my
pack your pack is right there where’s my
pack the movie owes its success to its
low-budget advertising campaign which
saw the filmmakers launch a website
claiming that the story was based on
true events number three
My Big Fat Greek Wedding any work and I
show you how the root of that word is
Greek a romantic comedy not starring an
a-list celebrity doesn’t sound like a
surefire box-office hit but this indeed
defied the odds kimono is come from the
Greek word Simona is mean wynton so what
do you wear in the wintertime to stay
warm aro centered on a Greek woman’s
relationship with a wasp this Tom Hanks
and Rita Wilson produced comedy stayed
in theaters for nearly a year despite
the fact it was never number one at the
u.s. box office okay may I please date
your daughter no it also made history as
the highest-grossing romantic comedy of
all time you can thank the Windex it’s a
mosquito bite put some Windex
number two Napoleon Dynamite last week
Japanese scientist explains place
explosive detonators at the bottom of
lake loch ness to blow nessie out of the
water a Dark Horse for sure Napoleon
Dynamite seemed to be just another
random release from MTV but after word
of mouth reviews it became a cultural
phenomenon becoming part of the teenage
slang
it’s minuscule budget of $400,000 when
compared to the whopping 46 million it
eventually made seems like peanuts
what’s so lighter it’s pretty much my
favorite animal that’s like a lion and a
tiger mixed redford skills and magic and
in fact star Jon Heder was only paid
$1,000 for his performance oh but that
was later readjusted after the film’s
success
before we unveil our number one pick
here are a few honorable mentions I get
the double quarter-pounder with cheese
value meal okay thank you for anything I
don’t feel good today not that I feel
sick but um I just feel really depressed
alright also you should know my writer
and some of some fingernails were coming
loose and I had a black fluid coming out
of my nose and sort of a black vomit
just breathe deep hey calm down
what’s your name your name dot and who
did this to you what who did this to you
you did number one paranormal activity
the flowers are not moving but something
else is the doors freaking moving it’s
not over
if ever there was a little engine that
could have movies this one is it made on
a budget of $15,000 Paranormal Activity
originally looked like a knockoff of the
Blair Witch Project with it’s found
footage and documentary style interviews
telling the story of a couple in a
haunted house but even so the first film
raked in 193 million dollars and spawned
a mega popular franchise do you agree
with our list which movie was your
favorite slow burning hit
more can’t miss top 10s published daily
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
that ain’t no etch-a-sketch this is one
doodle that can’t be undid home skillet
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