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Bookmark this pageA Bucket of Blood (1959)
Director: Roger Corman
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Corman's first full-blooded horror comedy was put in a class of its own by Charles Griffith's unusually witty script. Walter, hapless waiter in a Greenwich Village hangout, yearns to be as famous as the poets and musicians he serves endless coffee to. After a lucky break (straight out of Poe), he begins to make it as a prolific sculptor of gruesome corpses... Not surprisingly, the parody of the 'beat scene' (including a hilarious caricature of Allen Ginsberg) is closer to the truth than those attempted in many mainstream movies.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Roger Corman
Producer: Roger Corman
Cast: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Anthony Carbone, Julian Burton, Ed Nelson, John Brinkley full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 66 mins
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