10 Movies That Were Less Expensive to Make Than Netflix's Family Thriller Bloodline

A piece about the cancellation of Netflix’s Bloodline published by Vulture Thursday afternoon revealed that each episode of the series (which is scheduled to end after its third season) cost “somewhere between” $7 and $8.5 million. Think about this for just a few seconds, and every muscle in your face will go limp: a family thriller starring Kyle Chandler and Sissy Spacek set in the Florida Keys that my coworkers inform me is “filled with people squinting” and taking “pregnant pauses” that wasn’t filmed in IMAX 3D and does not contain a single superhero, animated animal, or full-size replica of the Titanic will have cost Netflix somewhere between $210 and $255 million dollars.

Do you know what movies cost less that three seasons of Kyle Chandler and Sissy Spacek staring at each other and quietly attempting to convince both each other and themselves that they’re not bad people? I’ll give you 10.

1. Interstellar

Cost: $165 million

Expensive thing it has that Bloodline doesn’t: A spaceship containing Anne Hathaway that travels through a black hole!!!

2. World War Z

Cost: $190 million

Expensive thing it has that Bloodline doesn’t: A plane that crashes into a mountain while Brad Pitt and several zombies are inside it!!!

3. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Cost: $170 million

Expensive thing it has that Bloodline doesn’t: Talking apes that know how to shoot guns!!!!!

4. Wild Wild West

Cost: $170 million