Busboy discovers his inner artist in ghoulish ways...
“A Bucket of Blood,&#34; directed by Roger Corman (“House of Usher,” “Tales of Terror”), is a parody of beatnik culture as well as a black comedy about murder. It pokes fun at folks who seek fame and fortune even though they pretend to be hippies.<br /><br />Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) is a shy busboy living a lonely life idolizing the beat artists he meets on the job at the Yellow Door Cafe. But he’s not talented enough to be an artist himself. He dreams of becoming a famous artist and marrying his dream girl Carla (Barboura Morris), who also works at the coffeehouse hangout.<br /><br />He ventures into the world of sculpting by chance, when he accidentally kills a cat and covers it with clay, displaying it as “Dead Cat.” He receives attention and acclaim, and he uses this technique later on a human, referring to the “sculpture” as Murdered Man. Beret-wearing art dealer Leonard de Santis (Anthony Carbone) catches on to what is happening with Walter’s sudden burst of creativity, and is torn between repulsion and greed.<br /><br />The idea of coating dead bodies was used earlier in “The Mystery of the Wax Museum” (1933) and its 1953 remake, “House of Wax.” In those films, dead bodies are coated with wax and exhibited in a wax museum. “A Bucket of Blood” never shocks, and leans more toward comedy than horror. Dick Miller, omnipresent in scores of films as a bit player, gets a rare chance at a leading role.<br /><br />The script is witty with an enthusiastic, if not first-rate, performance by Miller. Shot in only a week’s time, the movie suffers from its break-neck shooting schedule, but pays off in an innocent kind of charm, with murders used as a device to amp up the comedy. In style, “A Bucket of Blood” is similar to Corman’s “Little Shop of Horrors.” Both movies feature a loner who turns to murder and both were written by Charles B. Griffith. Corman and Griffith would later collaborate on “Creature From the Haunted Sea.”<br /><br />There are no bonus features on the unrated widescreen DVD release.
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