A Bucket of Blood

A Bucket of Blood

66 mins | Comedy, Horror | Oct. 21, 1959

Nerdy Walter Paisley (Dick Miller), a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla (Barboura Morris), by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.

A Bucket of Blood

66 mins | Comedy, Horror | Oct. 21, 1959

A Bucket of Blood
Nerdy Walter Paisley (Dick Miller), a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla (Barboura Morris), by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Alta Vista Productions, American International Pictures
Original title A Bucket of Blood
Directors Paul Rapp, Roger Corman
Writers Charles B. Griffith

Cast

Dick Miller

as Walter Paisley

Barboura Morris

as Carla

Antony Carbone

as Leonard de Santis

Julian Burton

as Maxwell H. Brock

Ed Nelson

as Art Lacroix

John Brinkley

as Will

Judy Bamber

as Alice

Myrtle Vail

as Mrs. Swickert

Bert Convy

as Lou Raby

Bruno VeSota

as Art Collector

Sheila Noonan

as Yellow Door Patron (uncredited)

Lynn Storey

as Sylvia

Jhean Burton

as Naolia