A Bucket of Blood
About A Bucket of Blood
Walter Paisley buses tables at the beatnik café The Yellow Door and wants to impress Carla. He tries to sculpt her. He kills his landlady's cat by accident and hides the body under plaster. The café crowd treats the piece as art. Pressed for more, he starts killing people and covering them the same way.
Cast & crew
More about A Bucket of Blood
Roger Corman produced and directed it from Charles B. Griffith's script. Jacques R. Marquette photographed it. Fred Katz wrote the music. It was shot in five days. American International Pictures released it on October 1, 1959, on a double bill with Attack of the Giant Leech. Wikidata also lists October 21, 1959, and 65 minutes. Dick Miller plays Walter. Barboura Morris plays Carla. Antony Carbone and Julian Burton are in the café. Bert Convy is in the cast.
Themes
Making
Corman made it in five days for $50,000, then reused the café sets for The Little Shop of Horrors.
Look
Jacques R. Marquette shot the café and the plaster figures on the five-day schedule.
Music
Fred Katz wrote the score.
Preservation
A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The Little Shop of Horrors was shot later on the same sets. Creature from the Haunted Sea is the third of the Corman-Griffith comedies.
- Ed Nelson and Bruno VeSota are in the cast lists.
- The plot echoes Mystery of the Wax Museum, moved into a late-1950s beat café.
- A copy is on the Internet Archive as ABucketofBlood.
Scenes
- Walter covers the dead cat in plaster and the café calls it sculpture.
- He kills again when they ask for a bigger piece.
Influenced by
- Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Influenced
- The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Also available
- Internet Archive (ABucketofBlood)
