A Bucket of Blood
United States
1959
75 Min
Black and White
1.33:1
English
Synopsis
Walter Paisley, nerdy busboy at a Bohemian café, is jealous of the talent (and popularity) of its various artistic regulars. But after accidentally killing his landlady’s cat and covering the body in plaster to hide the evidence, he is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor – but his new-found friends want to see more of his work. Lacking any artistic talent whatsoever, Walter has to resort to similar methods to produce new work, and soon people start mysteriously disappearing… —IMDb
Director
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926), sometimes nicknamed “King of the Bs” for his output of B-movies (though he himself rejects this as inaccurate), is an Academy Award-winning American producer and director of low-budget movies, some of which have an established critical reputation: his cycle of films derived from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe for example. Corman is also a sometime actor, taking minor roles in such films as The Silence of the Lambs, The Godfather Part II, Apollo 13 and Philadelphia.
Corman has apprenticed many now-famous directors, stressing the importance of budgeting and resourcefulness; Corman once joked he could make a film about the fall of the Roman Empire with two extras and a sagebrush. One of the most expensive films he produced was Battle Beyond the Stars. —Wikipedia
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Trickstian Shantih
3Apr12
A slick deconstruction on beatniks, bohemians, hipsters, whatever. Outrageously funny and incisively cunning with sharply perceptions about art world, arty pretensions, smooth surfaces and lofty incompetence. For A satirists and B-aristocrats only. Vive Ti-Jean Kéroack !
SALESK
3Nov11
Really fantastic. People should seek this out. Nice commentary on the connection between impulses artistic and homicidal. Time capsule for beatnik culture; good social commentary. Corman's direction is a master class for those who want to learn how to capture a scene with little coverage & few takes; swift, economical and entertaining.
Daniel S.
23Oct10
***1/2. Fascinating study, for a 2010 audience at least, of the beatnik movement in the U.S., a little bit caricatural of course but oh so true if one thinks of the pseudo cultural movements that appeared since like the Hippies, the New Age or the Ecolo-Terrorists. Julian Burton's performance as the beatnik poet Maxwell H. Brock deserves to stay in the annals of Movie History. Highly recommended.
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