A Bucket of Blood [Blu-ray]

Director: Roger Corman Roger Corman

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/20/2015
UPC:	0818522013176
Original Release:	1959
Rating:	NR
Source:	Film Detective
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital]
Language:	English
Time:	1:06:00
Sales rank:	27,090

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dick Miller	Walter Paisley
Barboura Morris	Carla
Anthony Carbone	Leonard De Santis,Actor
Ed Nelson	Art Lacroix
Julian Burton	Brock,Haolia,Naolia
John Brinkley	Will
John Herman Shaner	Oscar
Judy Bamber	Alice
Myrtle Vail	Mrs. Surchart
Bert Convy	Lou Raby
Lynn Storey	Actor
Myrtle Domerel	Mrs. Surchart
Alex Gottlieb	Singer
Bruno Ve Sota	Art Collector
Fred Katz	Composer

Technical Credits

Charles B. Griffith

Roger Corman	Director,Producer
Samuel Z. Arkoff	Executive Producer
Charles B. Griffith	Screenwriter
James H. Nicholson	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

Roger Corman directed this very funny little film in about half a week on a shoestring budget. Dick Miller plays Walter Paisley, a nerdy waiter at a beatnik coffeehouse. He has pretensions of joining the ranks of the artists who scorn him and the women who fawn over them, but his art is sub-par. That is, until he accidentally kills a cat, covering it with clay in a frightened attempt to hide the act. But the artists whom he yearns to join are fascinated, pronouncing the cat (with a knife sticking from its corpse) a work of art. Walter becomes the latest enfant terrible of the java set, and it isn't long before the embittered former whipping-boy enhances his fame with more original "sculptures," this time involving human victims. Miller is terrific and Charles B. Griffith's script is a funny send-up of beatnik culture. Corman and Griffith re-teamed the following year for an even better low-budget horror-comedy, The Little Shop of Horrors.