1 9/25/2009 Paranormal Activity $15,000 - $196,681,656
2 3/21/1980 Mad Max $200,000 - $99,750,000
3 5/7/2004 Super Size Me $65,000 - $29,529,368
4 7/14/1999 The Blair Witch Project $600,000 - $248,300,000
5 10/1/1968 Night of the Living Dead $114,000 - $30,000,000
6 11/21/1976 Rocky $1,000,000 - $225,000,000
7 10/17/1978 Halloween $325,000 - $70,000,000
8 8/11/1973 American Graffiti $777,000 - $140,000,000
9 10/19/1994 Clerks $27,000 - $3,894,240
10 5/16/2007 Once $150,000 - $18,997,174
11 7/25/1969 The Stewardesses $200,000 - $25,000,000
12 6/11/2004 Napoleon Dynamite $400,000 - $46,140,956
13 8/6/2004 Open Water $500,000 - $55,116,982
14 5/9/1980 Friday the 13th $550,000 - $59,754,601
15 12/15/1939 Gone with the Wind $3,900,000 - $390,525,192
16 2/8/1915 The Birth of a Nation $110,000 - $11,000,000
17 1/1/1925 The Big Parade $245,000 - $22,000,000
18 10/29/2004 Saw $1,200,000 - $103,096,345
19 10/8/2004 Primer $7,000 - $565,846
20 4/15/1983 The Evil Dead $375,000 - $29,400,000