A Bucket of Blood

"You'll be sick, sick, sick — from LAUGHING!"

Oct 21 1959 Approved 1h 6m
Comedy, Crime, Horror

Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.

Plot

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...

Written by

Charles B. Griffith

Directed by

Roger Corman

Cast

Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Alta Vista Productions, American International Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Trailers
A Bucket OF Blood - Trailer
A Bucket of Blood (1959) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080]
Featurettes
Allan Arkush on A BUCKET OF BLOOD
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