Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone (II)

A goofy busboy at a beatnik coffeehouse desperately wants to be accepted into the "in" crowd. When he accidentally kills a cat and covers its body with molded clay to cover up his accident, the mold ...( read more  read more... )becomes a hit piece of art with the beatniks. Then, the busboy, now artist, pursues his new career performing more and more gruesome acts and turning them into works of art for unsuspecting curios.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 6 min.

Directed by: Roger Corman

Release Date: October 21, 1959

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DVD Release Date: January 25, 2005

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  • September 29, 2009
    A classic Corman film with some fantastic characters bought to life by a great cast. Well worth seeking out, just a shame that the DVD I got is such poor quality, it could do with cleaning up and re-releasing!
  • July 29, 2008
    "a bucket of blood" is an occult flick made by enlongating one episode of "twight light zone".

    the story begins with a nobody with an absurd artisitc ambition to gain himself some respects from the beatnik artists in local cafe, then he achieves that by casting clay on real c...( read more)orpses that means he's got to continue murdering people to maintain his status of genius. then his final work would be himself hung around a rope.

    if you always feel the twight light zone episode is not long enough to linger, "a bucket of blood" would be a good passing time entertainment. one sentence to term rod serlying's eccentric beings under his wondrous creations: the vain peculiar struggles made by petite people whose lives are demeaned by their charater flaws, so their seek another dimension to escape their miserable existence of insignificance, the twight zone. you witness an odd mercy bestowed upon those people while the audience secretly emphasize with them, indulging in such soothing morbidity where its popularity prospers. hopefully my term would be adequate.
  • July 21, 2008
    Hilarious semi-spoof of movies like Mystery of the Wax Museum and a satirical approach to '50s beatnik society. Ridiculous, and a great deal of fun!
  • November 22, 2007
    A classic b-movie about an artist who makes his creations from those he kills. It starts with a cat sculpture and then progresses to people. I like the names he assigns to each of his masterpieces. This black humour is a slight mix of "The House of Wax" and "Little Shop of Horror...( read more)s", but the beatnik crowd and Dick Miller make it a unique cult treat worthy of a chuckle.
  • August 20, 2007
    A terribly disappointing black comedy version of "House of Wax". A lot of people also liken it to "The Little Shop of Horrors" because it has a very similar plot.
    The one thing it doesn't have though is a "bucket of blood". Yet again Roger Corman fooled everybody with a title t...( read more)hat had absolutely nothing to do with the film itself.
    It's only of interest to see Dick Miller from "Gremlins" in an early role. Other than that it's just awful.
  • August 4, 2009
    In true Corman fashion, there is no bucket of blood in this film. But as far as film veteran Dick Miller's only starring role, Bucket of Blood is a quirky little black comedy that does for beat poets what Little Shop of Horrors did for horticulturists. In fact, Little Shop is not...( read more)hing more than a remake of Bucket (which in itself is a skid row version of House of Wax), albeit a less sophisticated one. Most of the highlights of this film are due to the fine comic acting and timing of Dick Miller and Julian Burton, but if dead cats in plaster make you giggle, then you'll definitely get a kick out of this one.
  • July 15, 2009
    This is wonderfully, horribly disturbing.
  • July 6, 2009
    dick miller is great actor who i think doesn't get the credit he deserves. the man has done about 50 monies in his life and bucket was his only staring role..........5 starts for dick!!!!!
  • April 6, 2009
    this movie rules.
    very entertaining.very stylish.
    i love roger corman..you should too.
  • October 1, 2008
    I own it. I should watch it sometime.

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