A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 American black comedy horror
film directed by Roger Corman. It starred Dick Miller and was set in beatnik
culture.
The film, produced on a $50,000 budget, was shot in five
days and shares many of the low-budget filmmaking aesthetics commonly
associated with Corman's work. The film is a dark comic satire about a
dimwitted, impressionable young busboy at a Bohemian café who is acclaimed as a
brilliant sculptor when he accidentally kills his landlady's cat and covers its
body in clay to hide the evidence. When he is pressured to create similar work,
he becomes murderous.
A Bucket of Blood was the first of three collaborations
between Corman and Griffith in the comedy genre, followed by The Little Shop of
Horrors (which was shot on the same sets as A Bucket of Blood) and Creature
from the Haunted Sea.
The film is noted as well in many circles as an honest,
undiscriminating portrayal of the many facets of beatnik culture, including
art, dance, style of living and berets.
It's a good movie and worth watching.
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