A Bucket of Blood (1959)

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Talent and good looks rarely go together. Dick Miller had the bad luck to combine a blue-collar face with a blue-collar voice, and suffered for it throughout his career. Such people are rarely successes in "leading" roles. Charles Bronson comes to mind, but he's barely a good actor. Miller is genuinely talented.His Walter Paisley (at one point the character wears a cravat with a paisley pattern) is played absolutely straight. He never winks at the camera or steps outside the character. He's a pathetic creature we sympathize with, even when doing horrible things. It is a finely nuanced, essentially perfect performance. That is not an exaggeration.Charles B Griffith's excellent script combines pointed satire, solid laughs, and genuine wit. Griffith did a lot of work for Roger Corman, and this is surely his best. The lesson to be learned is that you can't make a good movie from a bad script, but not even Roger Corman can ruin a good story.Griffith would go on to pen "The Little Shop of Horrors", which Dick Miller passed on, because he didn't want to do another film where he played a serial killer. This didn't help his career much, and today he's best-remembered as Mr Futterman in "Gremlins" and its sequel, as well as one of Lawrence Woolsey's cronies in "Matinee!". He is a beloved actor, and there aren't many actors, living or dead, who can claim that distinction.

A Bucket of BloodThe problem with hipsters going missing is that everyone just assumes disappearing is now cool.Mind you, the missing cats in this horror movie have been murdered.Walter (Dick Miller) is an unassuming busboy at a beatnik café that longs for the admiration the local poets receive from the girls, especially his co-worker Carla (Barboura Morris).It's not until he kills a cat and casts it in clay that he garners recognition as a sculptor. His next piece is a cop (Bert Convy) that Walter murdered. The killings continue as the accolades roll in. But regrettably Carla remains unimpressed.B-movie maestro Roger Corman's sardonic attack on the 1950s art scene and the beat subculture that fostered it, this tepid thriller is light on blood loss and genuine jolts. Moreover, its suicidal ending is a major cop out.Furthermore, artists are only considered to be scary when they ask for subsidy.Red Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

I thought this movie was surprising really good, I did not expect to like this movie as much as I did As it a some-what short movie, the movie dose not drag at all and it not always action packed. I really liked the plot the movie, was really intruding and I liked how story flowed really well.I liked some of deaths scenes in this movie, most of them were impaled.it's was clever as they made to see deaths with out even seeing themI really liked this movie Really good acting from the whole cast 8 out of 10

This is Often called a Black Comedy. It is Alleged that Director Roger Corman takes the Credit for Inventing the Genre. This Certainly is a Scathing Indictment of the Bohemian Life, Beatniks, and the Art World. But it is so with a Cunning Script that Never Relies on the Cheap and is Humorous only in its Illumination of Pretense as Significance.It is Actually, more Creepy than Funny, and more Morbid than Satiric. The Movie has a Huge Cult Following and is Touted and Proclaimed as Perfect Corman. It Deserves all that and More. Only, Perhaps, Night of the Living Dead (1969), could Eclipse this as the Best Most Inexpensive Movie Ever Made.There is nothing Wasted here and Everything Meshes with Tight Environs, Minimalist Sets, Crackerjack Dialog, and an Unrelenting Tone. The Violence and Murders are anything but Amusing, and the Resulting Works of Art are Horrifying.To make a Near Perfect Picture in 5 Days with such Limitations is Nothing Less Than Remarkable and this Movie has been Remarked About since its Initial Drive-In, Grindhouse Release. It Forever Holds-Up and has Never Lost its Allure. Corman, the Artist, might call this...Movie, Man.