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The great Roger Corman produced and directed this cheerfully gory skewering of beatniks and the arts community. Dick Miller plays Walter Paisley, a no-talent busboy who idolizes the artsy types who frequent the coffeehouse where he works. When Walter accidentally kills his landlady's cat, he tries to hide the crime by covering the kitty in clay, and is soon hailed as a sculpting genius. Sure enough, the fickle arts community begins clamoring for some larger work. As a horror movie, A Bucket of Blood is merely okay, but it's great as a little black comedy. Corman works in some nice gruesome touches, such as backing up Walter's Big Emotional Moment with a steady drizzle of blood from a victim's arm. Most of the jokes aimed at the artists' pretensions still seem fresh: When offering Walter some breakfast, Maxwell announces that they're having 'soy and wheat-germ pancakes, organic guava nectar, calcium lactate and tomato juice and garbanzo omelettes sprinkled with smoked yeast.' The free-verse parodies are also very funny. Don't expect Bucket of Blood to keep you up with nightmares, but do sit back and prepare to enjoy a refreshingly sick sense of humor. --Ali Davis
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Rating: - GET THE MGM VERSION - ALL OTHERS NOT WORTH IT
"A Bucket of Blood" is not one of my favorite Roger Corman films and it has been passed around to various public domain companies for years. The MGM version is the one to get and an official release with the best picture quality. Don't be discouraged if it isn't widescreen as seen on TCM. This was filmed in 1.37 to be played in 1.66 ratio. What you get here is an open matte version meaning you see the entire scene shot by the camera before a mask is added to make it widescreen cutting the top ... Read More
Rating:  - A Humorous Bucket
Walter (Character actor and Veteran Roger Corman regular Dick Smith) ,a nerdish painter who waits tables at a beatnik cafe, is jealous of the popularity of its various artistic regulars. He kills his landlady's cat by accident . Then he glosses the body in plaster to hide the missing cat. Many acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor. Many so called friends/enemies want to see more of his work.. Walter has to resort to similar methods to produce new pieces with mixed results .
Directed ... Read More
Rating: - A Pristine Print of a Corman Cult Classic.
"A Bucket of Blood" has always been one of Roger Corman's most entertaining exploitation films, with excellent performances all around (especially those of Dick Miller and Barboura Morris). The script is literate, and the direction is much better than in many other Corman "cheapies". My only caveat is that the "statues" that were used in the film are so amateurish-looking that it's hard to believe all of the praise heaped upon them by the characters in the script--particularly the comment that they ... Read More
Rating:  - Little Bucket Shop Of Blood Horrors
After watching "A Bucket Of Blood" (1959), I have come to the conclusion that it is an earlier, bloodier variation of the movie "The Little Shop Of Horrors" (1960). Both movies were written by Charles B. Griffith. Both movies were directed by Roger Corman. In addition, several of the actors appear in both films. For example, John Shaner appeared as a beatnik named Oscar in "A Bucket Of Blood," and played the dentist Dr. Phoebus Farb in "The Little Shop Of Horrors."
In "A Bucket Of Blood," Dick ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Horror Comedy Flick
A Bucket of Blood is a wonderful horror comedy. It stars veteran
character actor Dick Miller as Walter Paisley who works as a
waiter/busboy at a trendy coffeehouse. He has to put up with the
restaurant's clientele who are mostly pretentious artsy types who think that they are all better than the rest of us. The leader of these pretentious poets is one Maxwell H. Brock (Julian Burton) whose free verse poetry is a hilarious send up of the drivel that was being widely
published in poetry ... Read More
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