Although we’d developed most of the basic premise in our first meeting at the BFI and Rosy had later gone away to draft the script over the following weeks, certainly a lot of new ideas stemmed from our recce in France. Finding the location early in the process was particularly important ont his project. Given our budget on 40K we could only afford 11 shooting days with minimum crew and a single location. We took this advice on board, but at the same time we also knew that we wanted to make something more than just another generic indie horror we wanted a greater focus on the characters and their relationships, the psychology, so we pushed the film over into the thriller genre some way. The reality was pretty clear, the film didn’t matter but the packaging and the trailer did. Before the meeting we’d spoken with a number of distributors who all told us the same story, that the film had to sell itself- make either a horror or a gangster movie on the lowest possible budget, give it a good title and slick DVD cover and you’re away. From a creative point of view, maybe that’s frowned upon, but film is a business and we knew that we’d need to make the film a success both critically and financially in order to be able to make another feature -or features- down the line. The three of us sat down and what we thought was ‘right, we need to make something that we know we can sell’. The first discussion on the film took place at the BFI Southbank centre with myself, my twin brother Edward who co-produced the film with me and our writer Rosy Deacon, who is very talented and won The Sir Peter Ustinov Award at the EMMYs just a year or so prior to Blood Money.
Soon it is clear there’s a killer in the house and the group must figure out who is responsible before they all suffer the consequences. Paranoia and fear sets in and the friends begin to turn on each other. But as they wait for their chance to escape from their secluded holiday home, they realize the body has gone missing.
They plan to hide the body, sell the painting, and return home. Blood Money DescriptionĪfter a botched art heist in France, a group of friends are left with a body on their hands and the French police hot on their trail. The film stars Ollie Barbieri ( Skins, Anuvahood), Klariza Clayton ( Skins, Harry Brown), Scott Chambers ( Chicken), and introducing Sabrina Hansen and Nicholas Bourne. It will be available on all the major VOD platforms including iTunes and Amazon. British thriller horror Blood Money, directed by Luke White, will be released on March 3rd, 2017.