A Bucket of Blood Page #4

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
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
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Year:
1959
66 min
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WALTER:

T-tell him that?

MRS. SWICKER

If you see him.

WALTER:

OK Mrs. Swicker.

Mrs. Swicker heads off -

MRS. SWICKER

Good night Walter...

WALTER:

Good night, Mrs. Swicker -

Walter opens his door and heads in -

INT WALTER'S ROOM - NIGHT

Walter closes the door and turns on a LIGHT hanging over a kitchen

TABLE - a CLOTH covers an object roughly the size of a bowling ball

on the table -

He removes Carla's head shot, tucked inside his shirt, and places it

on the table after looking at it for a beat -

Walter heads over to the STOVE, stopping to notice a freshly

plastered area on the wall, a bag of PLASTER still on the ground -

Walter opens himself up a can of BEANS - he looks around and finds

an old, dented metal POT, pouring the beans into the pot -

He throws the empty can in the direction of an overflowing GARBAGE

CAN, lights the stove and puts the pot on the

burner -

Walter then takes a seat at the table - he lifts the

cloth, revealing a mound of CLAY -

A cat meows in the distance as Walter looks at Carla's picture,

appreciating her beauty -

WALTER:

Now I have my muse...

Walter then turns and begins to mold the clay -

DISSOLVE TO:

INT WALTER'S ROOM

A half-hour later. Walter has attempted to sculpt a bust - he looks

at Carla's picture, then back at his sculpture -

Walter's POV it is a badly sculpted HEAD, that not only looks

nothing like Carla but has a hard time passing for anything human -

Walter looks at it, knowing that much work is needed on his creation

-

He grabs a blob of fresh clay from an adjacent pile and begins to

form a nose - the cat meows again - Walter looks around -

WALTER:

Frankie?

Walter continues enthusiastically sculpting the blob of

clay -

WALTER:

A canvas is a canvas or a painting.

A rock is a rock or a statue...a

sound is a sound or is music...

Walter looks at the sculpture -

Walter then attaches the nose - smoothing it on -

It looks RIDICULOUS, something out of grammar school art class -

he's having difficulty forming anything that resembles a nose -

WALTER:

Come on...you're supposed to be

a nose...

The malformed face stares dumbly back at him as he fights to shape

the nose -

The cat meows again - Walter is getting increasingly frustrated - he

backs up to look at the head -

PAN the photograph of Carla, over to the sculpture - one of the ears

falls off -

Walter squints at the head, failing to convince himself it's looking

better - frustrated, Walter yanks the nose off and grabs a little

more clay -

WALTER:

Why can't I make a nose!

On the stove, the beans begin to boil -

Walter shapes the clay and sticks the nose back on, his tongue

sticking out of his mouth as he fumbles with it -

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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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