Cinema
Blood Money: The Vulture Men
Blood Money
Chico Ejiro · 1997
Synopsis
Mike manages a bank branch and has just been swindled. He meets again a schoolmate, Collins, who has become police chief and a millionaire through the organ trade. Collins introduces him to the Vultures, a secret society commanded by a spirit promising instant wealth. The price is paid first by a child's kidnapping, then in blood. Mike accepts the first and tries to delay the second.
Context
Shot and sold directly on cassette, like all the output of this period, it was the first great success of the company that produced it, and its producer is not the director. It established the ritual-money story as a national genre for twenty years. Its music, like that of the other titles of these years, drew on the American genres then listened to in the country, before local sounds took over.
Who it is for
In English, with no French version, and available online. It is worth knowing that these stories of ritual money are presented at face value and that they answered a real anxiety about the origin of fortunes.
Prizes and reception
A title that has remained a classic of cinema on cassette, still watched and cited thirty years later, and one of the roles that built Kanayo O. Kanayo's reputation.