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.
- Director
- Roger Corman
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Humour
- Worldwide
- $180,000
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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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Box Office & Release
A Bucket of Blood returned 3.6× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $50,000
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $180,000
- Release date
- Oct 21, 1959
- Runtime
- 1h 6m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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