A Bucket of Blood (1959)

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• Tim S

  
  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… More
  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.

• AJ V

  
  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.

• Coxxie M

  
  pretty funny horror movie thats only like, 30 minutes long. i wouldnt expect this amount of dark humor from something from the 50's. and i dont know what t.v. show that Dick Miller guy was on, but i used to see it

• Anthony L

  
  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!

• Veronique K

  
  "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… More
  "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 corpses 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.

• jay n

  
  Really more of a psychological thiller then the full out horror film the title implies.

• Lafe F

  
  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… More
  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 Horrors", but the beatnik crowd and Dick Miller make it a unique cult treat worthy of a chuckle.

• Dr Blood  

  
  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… More
  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 that 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.

• Michael G

  
  This is the exact same thing as the original Little Shop of Horrors. It's silly, it's corny, it's nothing short of ridiculous. But at the same time it's funny to see Mr. Futterman from Gremlins as a dorky killer in a world of beatniks.

• Matthew Y

  
  A Bucket of Blood has a surprisingly strong script and metaphor for the extremes man will go to in order to be excepted and praised. A dim-witted waiter at a beatnik coffee shop dreams of becoming an artist himself. After an accident that involves the death of a cat he covers the… More
  A Bucket of Blood has a surprisingly strong script and metaphor for the extremes man will go to in order to be excepted and praised. A dim-witted waiter at a beatnik coffee shop dreams of becoming an artist himself. After an accident that involves the death of a cat he covers the animal in clay and passes it off as a sculpture. When the sculpture becomes all the rave the waiter ponders what he'll "sculpt" next. The film never delivers on it's promise of buckets of blood and the violence is very light. However with strong performances and a great screenplay this film stands tall in the Roger Corman film cannon.

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