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Nerdy Walter Paisley (Dick Miller), a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla (Barboura Morris), by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.
  • Genre:
    horror
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Roger Corman
  • Producer:
    Roger Corman
  • Writer:
    Charles B. Griffith
  • Release Date (Theaters):
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    Alta Vista Productions
  • Sound Mix:
    Mono

Cast & Crew

Dick Miller
Walter Paisley
Barboura Morris
Carla
Anthony Carbone
Leonard de Santis
Judy Bamber
Alice
John Brinkley
Will
Julian Burton
Maxwell H. Brock
Burt Convy
Lou Raby
Myrtle Damerel
Mrs. Surchart
Ed Nelson
Art Lacroix
John Herman Shaner
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Roger Corman
Director
Charles B. Griffith
Writer
Roger Corman
Producer
Fred Katz
Original Music
Jacques R. Marquette
Cinematographer
Anthony Carras
Film Editor
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  • 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.
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