This is a well known terror-comedy , it's a quickie but was shot for five days and is deemed one of Corman's best and funniest movies ever made although with lack budget .The picture concerns a geeky employee -Dick Miller- working at the Yellow Door café , he's a busboy named Walter Paisley . He's deeply impressed by Maxwell H. Brock's spontaneous poetry recital. Walter attempts to convince the Yellow Door patrons of his artistic potential. When his attempt at sculpting proves futile, Walter lashes out angrily at his landlady's cat and accidentally kills the animal . Later on , he feels ferocious desires , developing a bloodthirsty anger and is forced to murder for creation of his special sculpures . A Comedy of Errors! A Comedy of Terrors! .The Picture That'll Make You... sick sick SICK with Laughter!. Roger Corman's Cult Classic is Bloody Good Fun!.You'll be sick - from laughing!. Will YOU join his human museum?. You'll be sick, sick, sick - from laughing!. A new dimension in horror!. Inside every artist...Lurks a mad man!
Horror comedy blending black humor , parody , tongue-in-cheek and horror . The comedy is absurd and cheesy but gets its moments here and there . Incredible cheap but effective visual effects . Stars Dick Miller , a rare starring role for him , who gives overacting as a sculptor with a peculiar talent for lifelike artwork . This was his most memorable role would have to be that of the mentally unstable, busboy/beatnik artist Walter Paisley, whose clay sculptures are suspiciously lifelike . Corman enthusiasts will see thematic similarities to his subsequent work Little shop of horrors (1960) . As Little shop of horrors was made in a record breaking two days , while A Bucket of Blood was made in just five dias . This Corman terror/spoof noted for his magnificent beatnik atmosphere . The principal actors and technicians will repeat along with Corman in various films ,in fact, the picture belongs to horror-black comedy sub-genre as ¨A Little Shop of Horrors¨ and ¨Creature from the haunted sea¨, both of them written by Charles B. Griffith . In the film appears the Corman's ordinary actors as Barbara Mouris , Antony Carbone , Bruno VeSota ,and, of course, Dick Miller, who settled in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s , there he was noticed by producer/director Roger Corman, who cast him in most of his low-budget films, often as dislikeable sorts, such as a vacuum-cleaner salesman in Emisario de otro mundo (1957). , and he is also fondly remembered for his supporting role as the flower-eating Vurson Fouch in Corman's legendary Little Shop of Horrors (1960) and this Walter Pasley in A Bucket of Blood (1959) .
The picture contains an atmospheric cinematography in black and white by Jacques R. Marquette . There are also various technicians from Corman factory , as production designer Daniel Haller, producers Samuel Z. Arkoff , James H. Nicholson and wrtter Charles B. Griffith . The motion picture was well directed by the famous writer, producer , director Roger Corman. He made all kinds of genres , usually directing in a few days . As he made Westerns as The Oklahoma Man, Apache Woman, Five guns West . Monster Movies as Attack of the crab monsters, It conquered the world , Beast with a Million of Eyes, Viking Women and the sea Serpent , Frankenstein Unbound . Science Fiction as Gass, The man with X Ray eyes , Last Women on Earth . Youthful films as Carnival Rock, Rock at night , Sorority Girl, Teenage Doll. Mobster or Gangster movies as Bloody Mama, St Valentine Massacre, I Mobster , Machine Gun Kelly . But he especially shot Terror movies as The Undead, Tower of London, Haunted Palace , and Edgar Allan Poe saga as Fall of the Usher House, Tales of Terror, Raven, Terror, Pit and Pendulum , Tomb of Ligeia, Masque of Red Death , among others. Rating 6/10 . Acceptable and decent terror/comedy film .The flick will appeal to classic and cult movies fans.
