A Bucket of Blood overview

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A Bucket of Blood

Synopsis:

A fine example -- perhaps the best available -- of "B"-movie overlord Roger Corman's "Weekend Wonders" from the producer/director's early career (see also the original Little Shop of Horrors), this horror-comedy was also the first of beloved actor Dick Miller's dozen-odd portrayals of the character Walter Paisley. A geeky waiter and busboy at a happening Beatnik café, Walter is intensely jealous of the swinging social lives of the artistic types who hang there. A bizarre twist of fate changes everything; when Paisley accidentally kills his landlady's cat, his frantic attempts to hide the body lead him to encase it in a layer of clay, creating a morbid sculpture -- which is eventually discovered and hailed as an artistic triumph by the unwitting Bohemian art crowd.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Roger Corman
  • Studio: American International Pictures, James H. Nicholson Productions
  • Year: 1959
  • Run Time: 66 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Horror
  • Filmed in: B&W

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