WHO needs a budget of $200 million and a cast and crew of thousands? Not New Yorker Zachary Oberzan, whose “Flooding With Love for the Kid” is a masterpiece of ingenuity.

The low-tech pulp thriller was shot for all of $96 in Oberzan’s tiny Manhattan apartment, with him serving as director, cinematographer, designer and editor.

He also plays the lead character, a hitchhiker busted by a redneck police chief in Madison, Ky.

In fact, he portrays all 20 or so of the characters, including assorted cops, a justice of the peace, a moonshiner and a waitress.

To hold the budget to less than $100, Oberzan made use of what he already had. (Recycling is important, you know.) So the kitchen toaster doubles as a two-way police radio and disposal cups become megaphones.

Oberzan based his one-man movie on David Morrell’s 1982 novel “First Blood,” which inspired Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo potboiler of the same name. The similarities end there.

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