A Bucket of Blood *** (1959, Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Anthony Carbone, Ed Nelson) Classic Film Review 3861

Producer-director Roger Corman’s entertaining and berserk 1959 American International Pictures beatnik horror spoof was shot in just five days and cost only $50,000. Written by Charles B Griffith, it is only 65 minutes long.

Corman regular Dick Miller stars as Walter Paisley, a nerdy and clumsy busboy at a Bohemian café, who kills his landlady’s cat by accident. He covers it with plaster to hide the evidence and is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor. Soon the art world and beatnik Carla (Barboura Morris) are falling to worship at his feet. So, to produce new work, he moves on to dead humans.

Miller is excellent in this admired Corman camp classic, which is funny and enjoyable for those who are in the mind-set and mood to relish it.

Also in the cast are Anthony Carbone, Ed Nelson, Julian Burton, John Brinkley, John Shaner, Judy Bamber, Bert Convy and Jean Burton.

© Derek Winnert 2016 Classic Film Review 3861
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