A Bucket of Blood

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A horror film with comedic overtones, A Bucket of Blood is produced and directed by Roger Corman. It concerns a busboy in a beatnik coffee shop who aspires to be an artist. He accidently kills a cat he is trying to rescue from a wall and entombs the animal in clay to save his job. The shallow and pretentious art critics hail the young man as an artistic genius. He proceeds to entomb his contemporaries in clay in a macabre creative furor. He cuts of a man's head with a circular saw and his murderous crimes are only discovered the copse, hidden in the rafters, drips blood on the floor.
  • Rating:
    NR
  • Genre:
    Comedy, Horror, Mystery & Suspense
  • Directed By:
    Roger Corman
  • Written By:
    Charles B. Griffith
  • In Theaters:
     wide
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  • Studio:
    American Pop

Cast

Dick Miller
as Walter Paisley
Barboura Morris
as Carla
Anthony Carbone
as Leonard De Santis
Ed Nelson
as Art Lacroix
Julian Burton
as Brock
John Brinkley
as Will
John Herman Shaner
as Oscar
Judy Bamber
as Alice
Myrtle Vail
as Mrs. Surchart
Myrtle Domerel
as Mrs. Surchart
Bert Convy
as Lou Raby
Jhean Burton
as Naolia
Jean Burton
as Haolia
Alex Gottlieb
as Singer
Bruno Ve Sota
as Art Collector
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Audience Reviews for A Bucket of Blood

  • Mar 31, 2019
    What is most amusing in this light, unpretentious comedy-horror movie is seeing how it makes fun of the beatniks and relies on the protagonist's hilarious maladroitness for ironic ends. Still, the low budget shows, especially in an unimpressive climax that lacks the thrills to make us care.
    Carlos M Super Reviewer
  • Sep 17, 2018
    A blase busboy in an uber-pretentious L.A. coffee house longs for some kind of humanly positive reinforcement, which he gets tragically only after accidentally covering dead bodies in plaster, which stoner artist colony types confuse with deliberate art ("... it looks sooo lifelike ... !"). This is mostly a send-up of the hippie/poet/artist West Coast scene, but it does have decent cinematography, moody and noir-ish, while its sanctimoniously jerking the seen-it-all longhairs for a mild chuckle.
    Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
  • Feb 29, 2012
    The thing that I find most charming about some of Roger Corman's directing efforts is that he shot several of his movies in just a week to save money. What he turns out isn't amazing, but has its charms. A Bucket of Blood is more akin to The Little Shop of Horrors plot-wise in that it has some lowly loser who turns to murder to get people's attention. The plot doesn't really get more complex than that. He kills a cat and covers it in clay... he kills a guy and also covers him in clay... then he kills a gal and covers her in clay. That's about the gist of the entire story. Very simple but fun. The dialogue and acting are both terrible, as is the really awful beatnik poetries. It's just fun to watch a young Dick Miller do his thing, which is about the best draw to the movie. Yeah sure it's got some subtance to it, but that's the main thing I took away from it.
    Tim S Super Reviewer
  • Sep 05, 2010
    This is my favourite Corman movie of the fifties, I think. The only film where Dick Miller gets to play the main character too. It's both funny and suspenseful. Plus, it's about beatniks. I love this movie.
    Aj V Super Reviewer
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