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'''''A Bucket of Blood''''' is a [[1959 in film|1959]] [[comedy film|comedy]] [[horror film]] directed by [[Roger Corman]] and starring [[Dick Miller]]. 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. '''''A Bucket of Blood''''' is a [[1959 in film|1959]] [[comedy film|comedy]] [[horror film]] directed by [[Roger Corman]] and starring [[Dick Miller]]. 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.
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 +Written by [[Charles B. Griffith]], the film is a [[black comedy|dark comic]] [[satire]] about a socially awkward 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 [[murder]]ous.
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 +''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]]'' and ''[[Creature from the Haunted Sea]]''. Corman had made no previous attempt at the genre, although past and future Corman productions in other genres incorporated comedic elements. ''A Bucket of Blood'' was remade in [[1995 in film|1995]] as a [[A Bucket of Blood (1995 film)|made-for-television film]] for the [[Showtime]] network. The character name of [[Walter Paisley]] has been adapted by actor Dick Miller as an [[in-joke]] in productions such as ''[[The Howling (film)|The Howling]]'' and ''[[Shake, Rattle and Rock!]]'', which credit otherwise unrelated characters played by Miller under the character name.
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A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman and starring Dick Miller. 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.

Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a dark comic satire about a socially awkward 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 and Creature from the Haunted Sea. Corman had made no previous attempt at the genre, although past and future Corman productions in other genres incorporated comedic elements. A Bucket of Blood was remade in 1995 as a made-for-television film for the Showtime network. The character name of Walter Paisley has been adapted by actor Dick Miller as an in-joke in productions such as The Howling and Shake, Rattle and Rock!, which credit otherwise unrelated characters played by Miller under the character name.



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