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| “Blood Money” was made prior to “Money, Vampires & Weed” but both films have the same plot with some minor variants. Blood Money is presented in black and white. I am a huge fan of the old black and whites, harkening back to the days of film noir. These were films shot on low budgets but with creative lighting they were made beautiful. So this was an opportunity to present a comedy/horror story mixed in with a film noir style presentation. The movie centers around three women who are on their way to a night on the town or whatever it is that party girls do. One woman brags about her sexual conquests, the other wants a bag of weed while the other is a shapeshifter romance novel addict who has dreams about vampires. Each armed with different agendas, they find themselves carjacked by a woman who insists that a vampire is after her because she has stolen his money. The question then range from 'why does a vampire need money?' to 'how much money is in that bag?' as an angry stranger comes knocking on their window. The girls discover that there are different types of vampires and he is the type that can travel through walls pretty damn fast turning their home into his own personal vampire manor. Shooting on black and white really added to the claustrophobic feel I wanted for the film. It gives greater depths to the shadows in addition to adding that old horror movie feel. Presenting in black and white has become more of a self-conscious tick when it is done at all in modern- day films but I don't think we fall prey to that here. My thought is that whatever manner you saw the film initially presented then that is what you are used to seeing it as. For example, the colorized versions of the Three Stooges seem to lack the same appeal as the original. This is also true of the 'special' black and white presentations of 'The Walking Dead' episodes. You know that the process has been tinkered with so it dulls down the enjoyment somewhat. Psycho and Night of the Living Dead are creepy films that are enhanced by the fact they are presented in black and white. Movies such as the Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein and Nosferatu have iconic images that could not be presented in any other way than black and white. Vampire stories? The old Bela Lugosi black and white film stills have turned into popular vampire art. Unlike some of my other films, there really wasn't another specific frame of reference of the past that I had drawn inspiration from. Blood Money is a completely original work, a mixture of vampire camp with noirish elements. |