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 Bucket of Blood (DVD)
Newest Review: ... is the toast of beatniksville, but in order to keep his burgeoning art career alive he needs a constant supply of 'subjects', ... more  ... and so the body count rises.
It's a fun idea for a horror film that never tries to take itself seriously. It's a knock-off of the basic idea of House of Wax, but it's played for laughs throughout, never trying to drum up anything like suspense or chills. All the violence takes place offscreen (although the clay 'statues' are pretty gruesome), and, being 1959, we see a lady's naked back, but sadly she never turns round. Although there are undercover cops hanging around the coffee shop after drug dealers, and altho...more |
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Bucket of Blood (DVD): Life is an obscure hobo bumming a ride on art (623 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 05.05.08 (Very useful, 64 readings)
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A review of just the film. This one's in the public domain, and there are plenty of cheap DVD releases, often double-billing it with other cheap films by the same director. A great little black and white horror comedy from 1959, this is one of Roger Corman's most entertaining films. It's a one-gag premise, really, but at only 66 minutes it never wears out its welcome. There's a coffee shop/art gallery full of beatniks who flock to admire the crazy poetic stylings of Maxwell Brock. A humble and distinctly unhip waiter, Walter, desperately wants to be in with the in crowd. He tries to become a sculptor but lacks the basic talent. But having ...
Beatnik butchering (468 words)
by Beggar James - written on 04.08.01 (Very useful, 18 readings)
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'Bucket of Blood', directed by Roger Corman is one of the funniest horror comedies of all time, a fact which is all the more remarkable considering that it had an incredibly low budget, and that it was reportedly shot in just five days. Even non-horror fans should enjoy this film, which has lost none of it's laughs despite the years. The plot follows the misadventures of the hapless Walter Paisley (played by cult actor Dick Miller), a coffee shop worker who is desperate to fit in with the hepcat beatniks he serves everyday. To try and win their respect, he attempts to become a sculptor. He accidently kills a cat, and covers it with the plaster: the ...
