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A Bucket of Blood ()

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A dimwitted busboy at a beatnik cafe passes off a cat he accidentally killed and covered in plaster as a sculpture, prompting a demand for more art that compels him to commit murders.
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Walter Paisley
Barboura Morris ...
Carla
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Leonard de Santis
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Maxwell H. Brock
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Art Lacroix
John Brinkley ...
Will
John Herman Shaner ...
Oscar (as John Shaner)
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Alice
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Mrs. Swickert (as Myrtle Damerel)
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Lou Raby (as Burt Convy)
Jhean Burton ...
Naolia
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Art Collector (as Bruno Ve Soto)
Lynn Storey ...
Sylvia (as Lynne Storey)
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Tom Daly ...
Coffee-House patron (uncredited)
Alex Hassilev ...
Singer-Guitarist (uncredited)
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Art Exhibit Patron (uncredited)
Paul Horn ...
Beatnik Saxophonist (uncredited)
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Art Exhibit Patron (uncredited)
Perk Lazelle ...
Art Exhibit Patron (uncredited)
Sheila Noonan ...
Yellow Door Patron (uncredited)
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Art Exhibit Patron (uncredited)
Murray Pollack ...
Art Exhibit Patron (uncredited)
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Art Exhibit Patron (uncredited)
Henry Travis ...
Art Critic (uncredited)

Directed by

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Roger Corman

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Charles B. Griffith ... (screenplay)

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Samuel Z. Arkoff ... executive producer (uncredited)
Roger Corman ... producer
James H. Nicholson ... executive producer (uncredited)

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Fred Katz ... (music by)

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Jacques R. Marquette ... director of photography (as Jack Marquette)

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Anthony Carras

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Daniel Haller ... (as Dan Haller)

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Bob Mark ... makeup artist

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Jack Bohrer ... production manager

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Paul Rapp ... assistant director

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Richard M. Rubin ... properties (as Dick Rubin)

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Leonard Corso ... sound editor
Wallace Nogle ... sound (as Wally Nogle)

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Marjorie Corso ... wardrobe (as Marge Corso)

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Paul Horn ... musician: saxophone solo
Jerry Irvin ... music editor
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Plot Summary

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 Michael Brooke

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Taglines A Comedy of Errors! A Comedy of Terrors! See more »
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Also Known As
  • The Living Dead (United States)
  • Un baquet de sang (France)
  • Un seau de sang (France)
  • Das Vermächtnis des Professor Bondi (Germany)
  • Un cubo de sangre (Spain)
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  • 66 min
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Budget $50,000 (estimated)

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Trivia The sets for this film would be re-used for Roger Corman's next production The Little Shop of Horrors (1960). They were previously used for The Diary of a High School Bride (1959). See more »
Goofs Walter accidentally kills a cat in a wall with a knife, but when he takes it out of the wall, it is stiff, as if it has been dead at least an hour. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into A Bucket of Blood (2016). See more »
Soundtracks The Ballad of Tim Evans See more »
Quotes [first lines]
Maxwell H. Brock: I will talk to you of Art, for there is nothing else to talk about, for there is nothing else. Life is an obscure hobo bumming a ride on the omnibus of Art. Burn gas buggies, and whip your sour cream of circumstance and hope, and go ahead and sleep your bloody heads off. Creation is, all else is not. What is not creation, is graham crackers; let it all crumble to feed the creator. The Artist is, all others are not. A canvas is a canvas or a painting. A rock is a rock or a statue. A sound is a sound or is music. A preacher is a preacher, or an Artist. Where are John, Joe, Jake, Jim, jerk? Dead, dead, dead They were not born before they were born, they were not born. Where are Leonardo, Rembrandt, Ludwig? Alive! Alive! Alive! They were born! Bring on the multitude, the multitude of fishes: feed them with the fishes for liver oil to nourish the Artist, stretch their skin upon an easel to give him canvas, crush their bones into a paste that he might mold them. Let them die, and by their miserable deaths become the clay within his hands that he might form an ashtray or an ark. For all that is comes through the eye of the Artist. The rest are blind fish, swimming in the cave of aloneness. Swim on you maudlin, muddling, maddened fools, and dream that one bright and sunny night, some Artist will bait a hook and let you bite upon it! Bite hard - and die! In his stomach you are very close to immortality.
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