Coupled with Belfort’s subsequent, erm, ‘legal issues’ and Harry Shuster’s 2001 conviction for securities fraud after embezzling more than $5million in illicit funds via a series of scams involving cigar clubs, animal safaris, and, of course, independent movies - well, Blood Money is kind of fitting, ain’t it?Ī noir-ish, Desperate Hours -y (1955) tale of greed and revenge, Blood Money finds modern day Full Moon favourite Sonny Carl Davis (the Evil Bong saga) as a nasty criminal who escapes from jail and tracks down his old back-stabbin’ accomplice (Dean Tarrolly) to settle the score and commit ‘one last heist’. Alongside Skeletons, on July 13th 2004, Blood Money was one of seven pictures whose rights were auctioned off by the Screen Actors Guild in the union’s first ever public foreclosure for non payment of wages and residuals. Despite BLOOD MONEY sitting at the bottom end of the Belfort/Shuster scale in terms of quality, it at least deserves mention for the dodgy dealings surrounding its making. Teaming with father and son duo Harry and Brian Shuster, a pair of colonial South Africans who owned a few L.A.-based restaurants and had already racked up a couple of low-budget credits themselves, between 19, Belfort amassed a slate of eight films that included: two vehicles for wrestler Hulk Hogan ( The Secret Agent Club (1996) and Santa With Muscles (1996) ) the David DeCoteau double-whammy of Prey of the Jaguar (1996) and Skeletons (1997) and the Bruce Campbell-starring ‘ Die Hard (1988) in space’ romp, Assault on Dome 4 (1996).
Matty sticks this compelling but technically sloppy thriller with some murky behind the scenes facts under the microscope.įor a brief moment in the mid ‘90s, stockbroker-cum-conman Jordan Belfort - ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ - dabbled in moviemaking.
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