Low-budget science fiction is spectacularly hard to pull off. The effects demanded by most good sci-fi scripts are too grandiose, too complicated, impossible to do on a limited budget. When someone does manage to pull it off though, it’s pretty special. The last time anyone really did it, it was Richard Kelly with Donnie Darko.

Quality sci-fi on a budget is a rarity, but I root for it. I haven’t heard many great things about Mutant Chronicles, but wouldn’t it be great if they managed to pull something cool off, right under Hollywood’s nose? The first five minutes of the low-budget Thomas Jane movie is online, and worth watching. Take a look:

Thomas Jayne’s long-awaited Mutant Chronicles movie has a new poster. It does not however, have an American release date. It does come out in Russia on December 11th of this year, but who knows when we’ll get a chance to see it. To be announced. In the meantime, here’s the poster and a little bit on what it’s about.

The Mutant Chronicles is about a dystopic future in which the human race has dwindled and finds itself under attack by a bunch of creatures called “NecroMutants”. Earth is no longer inhabitable and Megacorporations control everything that’s left.