Р”В®scape From Tomorrow, made for $650,000, was 'shot in a guerrilla-style manner at Walt Disney World and Disneyland without the permission of the parks,' according to Jason Guerrasio of Indiewire. After being well received at film festivals, Paramount put the film on a tour where fans could request a screening. Michael Cieply of The New York Times described the production and release as 'guerrilla style'. Paranormal Activity, directed by first time director Oren Peli, was shot for approximately $10,000. Kaufman has been outspoken about their use of guerrilla marketing and tolerance of piracy, and he has written the books All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger and Make Your Own Damn Movie!, which outline his philosophy of quick and inexpensive independent film. The company produces low-budget independent films, many of which have developed cult followings. Troma Entertainment is a film production and distribution company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974. Aronofsky raised money for the project by selling $100 shares in the film to family and friends, and was able to pay them all back with a $50 profit per-share when the film was sold to Artisan. It proved to be a financial success at the box office ($4.6 million gross worldwide). Pi, directed by Darren Aronofsky, was made on a budget of $68,000. The book and film would inspire other filmmakers to pick up cameras and make no-budget movies. Rodriguez described his experiences making the film in his book Rebel Without a Crew. The film, originally intended for the Spanish-language low-budget home-video market, was distributed by Columbia Pictures in the United States.

El Mariachi, which was shot for around $7,000 with money partially raised by volunteering in medical research studies, won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992. Robert Rodriguez shot the action film El Mariachi in Spanish. New Queer Cinema director Gregg Araki shot his first two films, Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987) and The Long Weekend (O' Despair) (1989) using a spring-wound Bolex camera and scrap film stock, on a budget of $5,000 each. It was Spike Lee's first feature-length film and inspired him to write the book Spike Lee's Gotta Have It: Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking. Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It was a guerrilla film on a budget of $175,000 which made $7,137,502 at the box office. Ben Sisario of The New York Times called Van Peebles 'a hero of guerrilla filmmaking' who has suffered for his uncompromising vision. Р”Р‡ilm critic Roger Ebert described Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, directed by Melvin Van Peebles, as 'a textbook on guerrilla filmmaking' in his review of Baadasssss!, a biopic about the making of Sweet Sweetback.

As depicted in the biopic Ed Wood, Wood stole a fake octopus for one of the scenes in his low budget films. Janet Maslin of The New York Times characterized Ed Wood as a guerrilla filmmaker.

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