A Bucket of Blood

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DVD Details

  • Run Time: 1 hours, 6 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 29, 2018
  • Originally Released: 1959
  • Label: Olive Films

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User Ratings: 4,864
Rating: 4/5 -- It's a low budget masterwork that skewers the fad of its era while lambasting the ever-fickle art world. Full Review
FanboyNation.com
Oct 29, 2018
Rating: 3.5/4 -- It was perhaps Corman's first film to establish a really rich atmosphere, filled with nighttime shadows and a general edginess, which only grew richer on the subsequent Poe films. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Jun 1, 2018
Rating: B+ -- A true cult film delight from the 1950s made for all eras. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Sep 11, 2001
A BUCKET OF BLOOD sees the director firing on all cylinders....A gleeful evisceration of boho beatnik chic.
Uncut
Sep 1, 2005
Rating: 4/5 -- One of Corman's best.
ColeSmithey.com
Jan 10, 2006
Rating: 3/4 -- What better way to undercut the worst of artistic pretensions than to do it with a slapdash movie produced in five days called A Bucket of Blood? Full Review
Q Network Film Desk
Nov 9, 2019
A monolith of lowbrow entertainment from the days when cheap movies could be made and marketed cheaply. Full Review
East Bay Express
May 5, 2010

Product Description:

Bumbling busboy Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) works at a beatnik coffeehouse populated by artists, poets, and dope addicts. He longs to belong and, inspired by the poetry around him, tries his hand at sculpting. When he accidentally kills a cat and covers it with clay, it becomes a celebrated work of art. Soon Walter has moved on to killing people and is the hit of the local art scene. Roger Corman regulars Barboura Morris and Anthony Carbone are the couple running the coffeehouse who are first exalted by Walter's success and then rather worried. Director Corman shot this little gem of black comedy in an amazing five days for $50,000. It's since become a true cult classic, practically inventing its own genre and perfectly satirizing the self-righteousness of the then-emerging beatnik movement, not to mention the whole world of contemporary art. Miller lends pathos as Walter, and the rest of the cast is just hilarious, particularly Julian Burton as the pretentious and portly poet whose recitation on the "artist" (accompanied by jazz sax solo) opens the film. Corman reused the same general tone and story for THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS the following year.

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  • UPC: 887090141710
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