A Bucket of Blood Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Production: American Pop
 
IMDB:
6.8
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Year:
1959
66 min
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Carla looks at Walter -

CARLA:

That's word for word.

MAXWELL:

Is it? I've forgotten.

MAYOLIA:

You mean you don't remember your

own poem?

MAXWELL:

I refuse to say anything twice -

repetition is death!

CHARLIE:

What do you mean?

MAXWELL:

When you repeat something, you

are reliving a moment, wasting

it, looking at a shed skin - I

only want new impression, new

sensations -

WALTER:

I thought you believed that life

is a homeless traveler riding on

the RTD of -

MAXWELL:

(interrupting)

I know that - I know that! I also

believe in burning the creative

candle, you understand, down to

the end - to be uncreative you

might as well be dead...a walking

machine, toiling in a factory!

WALTER:

I worked in one of them. Back in

Alaska.

(smiles meekly)

The people at the table look at Walter, then laugh

cynically -

In the background, Leonard glares at Walter -

CARLA:

Walter, Leonard's looking at you

again.

Walter grabs up a cup and saucer off the table, almost spilling the

contents before heading off -

CHARLIE:

That guy's a class-A cracker.

MAXWELL:

Walter's got a clear mind. Probably

something will enter it, feel lonely,

and leave again...

Everyone at the table laughs weakly -

At another table two eccentrically dressed ARTISTS, CUFF and LINK,

talk to an upscale older couple - Cuff has a series of MATTED

PHOTOGRAPHS in his hand -

OLDER MAN:

I've heard you can find some

cutting edge pieces here if you

keep an eye out -

OLDER WOMAN:

I'd like to find something for

our den, something unusual -

CUFF:

Well maybe these works might

interest you -

Cuff shows the woman the photographs - she reacts to them with

disdain -

POV they are pictures of various ROAD KILLS - squirrels, skunks,

possums -

CUFF:

It's our road kill series. I take

the pictures.

LINK:

(proudly)

I do the research.

The woman hands back the photographs -

OLDER WOMAN:

Not quite what I was looking for.

OLDER MAN:

Yes, we're interested in something

with some investment potential -

CUFF:

Hey, this is no supermarket,

there are no aisles, it's all

in the attitude -

Walter approaches -

LINK:

Yeah that's a dead soul way to

look at it -

OLDER WOMAN:

Nonsense. We have developed many

a rapport with struggling artists -

we're very supportive -

WALTER:

"All that is comes through the eye

of the artist - the rest are blind

fish, swimming in the cave of

aloneness."

The four people stare at Walter -

OLDER WOMAN:

That's very deep, and coming from a

bus boy too -

WALTER:

"Feed them that you will be satisfied -

the artist is, all others are not -"

OLDER MAN:

Where have I heard that before?

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Charles B. Griffith

Charles Byron Griffith (September 23, 1930 – September 28, 2007) was a Chicago-born screenwriter, actor and film director, son of Donna Dameral, radio star of Myrt and Marge. along with Charles' grandmother, Myrtle Vail, and was best known for writing Roger Corman productions such as A Bucket of Blood (1959), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), and Death Race 2000 (1975). more…

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