A Bucket of Blood
“You'll be sick, sick, sick — from LAUGHING!”
Nerdy Walter Paisley, 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, 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.
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Cast
14 people
Dick Miller
Walter Paisley
Known for
The Terminator
Gremlins
Barboura Morris
Carla
Known for
The Wasp Woman
The Trip
Antony Carbone
Leonard de Santis
Known for
The Pit and the Pendulum
Creature from the Haunted Sea
Julian Burton
Maxwell H. Brock
Known for
The Masque of the Red Death
Ed Nelson
Art Lacroix
Known for
Who Am I?
The Boneyard
John Brinkley
Will
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Teenage Doll
John Herman Shaner
Oscar
Known for
The Little Shop of Horrors
Judy Bamber
Alice
Known for
Monstrosity
Myrtle Vail
Mrs. Swickert
Known for
The Little Shop of Horrors
Bert Convy
Lou Raby
Known for
The Cannonball Run
Semi-Tough
Bruno VeSota
Art Collector
Known for
Dementia
The Wasp Woman
Sheila Noonan
Yellow Door Patron (uncredited)
Known for
Beast from Haunted Cave
Roger Corman Director · Charles B. Griffith Screenplay Fred Katz Composer
Worldwide gross $180K · Budget $50K · United States release October 21, 1959
Box office
Budget
$50,000
Worldwide gross
$180,000
Gross vs. budget
3.6×
Production
American International Pictures
Production
Alta Vista Productions
Production
United States
Produced in
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · October 21, 1959
Theatrical · rated X
United States · October 21, 1959
Theatrical
Austria
June 1, 1962 · Theatrical
France
September 30, 1970 · Theatrical
Germany
February 16, 1962 · Theatrical
October 21, 2026 · Premiere · Hof International Film Festival
Greece
October 13, 2007 · Premiere · Panorama of European Cinema
Peru
December 15, 1960 · Theatrical
Sweden
October 28, 2022 · Digital · Internet
United Kingdom
October 25, 1996 · Physical · DVD
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