Blu-ray Release: A Bucket of Blood (1959)

Blu-ray Release Date: Oct. 20, 2015
Price: Blu-ray $14.99
Studio: The Film Detective


To celebrate Halloween, the comedy-horror cult favorite A Bucket of Blood arrives for the first time ever on Blu-ray, transferred from the original 35mm film.

Directed by undisputed schlockmeister Roger Corman (The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre) from a screenplay by Charles B. Griffith (The Little Shop of Horrors, Death Race), 1959’s A Bucket of Blood is a darkly comic satire that will delight fans of Corman, horror and classic, cult filmmaking.

Dick Miller is one hip daddy-o in A Bucket of Blood.

Dick Miller is one hip daddy-o in A Bucket of Blood.

Produced on a $50,000 budget and shot in five days (featuring many of the low-budget filmmaking aesthetics for which Corman’s work is known), the film concerns a dimwitted, impressionable young busboy (Dick Miller, Truck Turner) at a Bohemian café in southern California who is inspired by a beatnik artist’s performance to try his hand at sculpture. While working, he accidentally kills his landlady’s cat and, in desperation, covers its body in clay to hide the evidence. When the suspiciously life-like figure earns him a reputation as a brilliant sculptor, he is pressured to create similar works … and his muse becomes murder!

A Bucket of Blood – noted in many circles as an honest, undiscriminating portrayal of the many facets of beatnik culture, including art, dance and style of living – is presented in original widescreen with an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and mono sound with English subtitles.

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