A Bucket of Blood [VHS] | ![A Bucket of Blood [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513046KEC7L._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone, Julian Burton, Ed Nelson
Category: Video
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Rating:  22 reviews
Format: PAL
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 66 Minutes
EAN: 5050070007312
ASIN: B00005KFTI
Theatrical Release Date: October 21, 1959
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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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 A Humorous Bucket February 11, 2007
Bennet Pomerantz (Seabrook, Maryland)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
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 on a low budget by Roger Corman, it works and has a sense of humor with its horror. Its satire sit bites 48 years later. It does a bloodless horror that still thrills
This film is similar to House of Wax and the future Corman film, the cult classic, The Little Shop of Horrors. The beatnik reference makes this movie a cult classic of the early 1960's (made in 1959-GAWD it is as old as I am) as well as "Horror", but it was not as well received
so get it and enjoy this campy horror film
Bennet Pomerantz, AUDIOWORLD
Murder As Art... July 14, 2004
Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein (under the rubble)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Poor Walter Paisley (Dick Mlller). No one notices him in his dead-end job as busboy at The Yellow Door coffeehouse. Day after day he watches and listens as beat poets and musicians get all the attention and accolades. Then, one day, Walter accidentally kills his landlady's cat, covers it in clay, and -presto!- a new artistic master is born! Soon, the beatniks are at Walter's feet, begging for further expressions of his genius. Walter knocks a cop (Bert Convy) in the noggin with a skillet, turns him into a statue, and has another masterwork to show off! Unfortunately, this begins taking a toll on Walter's mind, turning him into just another pseudo-intellectual, elitist snob like the ones he'd once envied. Of course, Walter is also a serial killer, using his victims as the guts of his "art". BUCKET OF BLOOD is a hysterical look at the beat generation. It lampoons just about every type of beatnik pomposity. Roger Corman's sense of humor shines through every scene! This would be a perfect double bill with LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS or THE BLOODY BROOD. Highly recommended...
Corman Firing on All Cylinders with This Horror Spoof March 4, 2006
Thomas Gabriel (Solvang, CA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
With a short shooting schedule and a tight budget, Roger Corman manages nothing short of a classic film here--if not quite in a league with the big-budget classics (but more fun), definitely worth preserving and viewing more than once or twice. Sure, some minor corners are cut, some elements strain believability (with a quirky satiric slant that still works)--but no more than a lot of movies, and they only add to the fun in the classic Corman manner.
The awesome Dick Miller plays Walter Paisley, a painfully shy and not-too-bright busboy at The Yellow Door, a beatnik coffee house (this is 1959), who stumbles on an "easy" way to create sculpture art without having real talent (it involves the models for these sculptures becoming more than models) and becomes a local hero to the beat crowd...while people keep disappearing! Miller's performance is almost painfully real, and just right.
There's plenty of local color, some of the exteriors appear to be shot on locations around Venice (California), and Corman appears to be satirically skewering the whole beatnik scene while at the same time showing obvious affection for it.
Another Corman regular, the unique and lovely Barboura Morris, plays Carla, artist and apparent part-owner of The Yellow Door, who champions Walter to the more cynical denizens of the beat scene, and lives to regret it. Her sincerity, intelligence, and ability to do deadly put-downs with a soft, gentle voice make one wish she'd done more roles like this. She is convincing and completely natural.
Plenty of "beatnik" poetry, cool jazz, in-jokes which somehow still work, well-observed background, a talented cast, and a sure directorial hand all combine to make a really COOL flick, man, dig? Check it out!
A Pristine Print of a Corman Cult Classic. November 14, 2006
Nostalgic for the '50s
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"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 are so "lifelike" (the statues are also obviously much too slim and lightweight to be what they actually are supposed to be). Despite this minor nit-pick, this is still a great print of a great Corman classic, and highly recommended!
A creepy and campy Corman classic August 3, 1999
Roger Corman is definitley the king of campy horror and A Bucket of Blood is his best. Dick Miller(who can be seen in nearly all of Joe Dante's films and in alot of Corman's) gets the most screen time he's ever had in his best role to date. A Bucket of Blood is one of the best waxwork films and a true must see for all Corman fans.
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