A Bucket of Blood
Movie • 1959 • Comedy
ReportNerdy 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.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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The cat is a prop :p
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Is there body horror?
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All of Walter's murders are trapped within clay.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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1. Policemen at the start profile woman between skinny and fat.
2. A woman is literally being murdered as she poses nude to ''keep her immortal''.
3. A woman gets advances from two men, which she refuses but never has her wish respected. Walter wants to murder Carla when she refuses his marriage proposal.
2. A woman is literally being murdered as she poses nude to ''keep her immortal''.
3. A woman gets advances from two men, which she refuses but never has her wish respected. Walter wants to murder Carla when she refuses his marriage proposal.
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Is there audio gore?
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You can hear a man receiving a head trauma blow (just the *thud* sound) and a woman choking very briefly.
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Is someone stalked?
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3 stalking scenes happen:
- When the undercover police follows Walter home.
- When Walter follows Alice home to pay her as a model.
- When Walter chases after Carla to kill her.
- When the undercover police follows Walter home.
- When Walter follows Alice home to pay her as a model.
- When Walter chases after Carla to kill her.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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A woman quite literally is killed while posing nude to ''maker her immortal''. (And revenge)
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Addiction
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Smoking cigarettes, heroin and cannabis are used throughout the movie.
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Is there addiction?
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Multiple characters are addicted to smoking both cigarettes and drugs.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Walter gets highly drunk at one point.
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The first 15 minutes or so involves the death and subsequent corpse of a beloved cat, Frankie.
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Are animals abused?
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A cat dies at the start from negligent use of knife.
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Is there a dead animal?
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The first 10 minutes revolve around the coverup of Frankie's murder, the cat.
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Is an animal sad?
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Frankie, the cat at the beginning, meows continuously since she's stuck in the walls.
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Does a cat die?
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Right at the start, though only the corpse (clearly a prop) is shown, not the actual death scene.
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Does a pet die?
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Frankie, the cat, dies at the start.
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Are there bugs?
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Santis only teases Walter about making sculptures out of cockroaches, but no bugs are shown nor mentionned again.
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Is rape mentioned?
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Not mentionned, not shown, not even a thing in the movie. The furthest is goes is the murder of a woman while she poses nude.
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Is someone restrained?
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A woman is choked while she poses on a chair.
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Carla is not sexually assaulted, but she gets unwanted advances from both Walter and Santis, to which both refuse to respect her wishes.
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Bodily Harm
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Is there decapitation?
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One of the murders revolve around a man being pushed into a chainsaw until his head is cut off. The scene isn't shown and only implied by the sculpture shown the next day.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Not squashed, but other head injuries include:
- Head trauma to the forehead, spliting it.
- Head mutilation via a chainsaw.
- Head trauma to the forehead, spliting it.
- Head mutilation via a chainsaw.
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Is there a hanging?
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The last part of the movie revolves around a suicide by hanging.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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No, but there's so wiggling room in there since one of the murders is putting a nude woman's corpse into clay... meaning there's probably clay manipulation around the genitals. It's not the focus and the sculpture itself has a blanket over it.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Not only break, but mutilated by severing a head through a chainsaw. None of it is shown, it's implied by the statue the next morning.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Well, teeth are part of the sculpture, so they're not damaged per say...
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Fingers and toes are all trapped in the clay.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Unless you count eyes being sculpted within the clay, no.
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Children
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Death
Does someone die?
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Multiple... it's a murder movie...
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Debatable whether you believe Walter's voices to be his own guilt or actual ghosts.
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Gross
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Large-scale Violence
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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No, the murder methods are the following:
- Negligent knife use
- Head trauma
- Choking
- Head mutilation
- Hanging
All corpses are clayed-up.
- Negligent knife use
- Head trauma
- Choking
- Head mutilation
- Hanging
All corpses are clayed-up.
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Mental Health
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Attempts and succeeds, towards the end of the movie.
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Towards the end, a suicide by hanging occurs.
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Not at all, and the movie is in black and white, so the contrast isn't too tiring to the eye.
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Are there fat jokes?
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Yes, the policement at the start profile clients at the Yellow Door by calling them skinny and fat.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Not sexual as in rape or love-making, but as in Alice is a nude model and she poses for Walter before being killed.
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Walter was to be arrested, but he kills himself by hanging and putting some clay on his face. It's a sad ending regarding the murderer getting away from law.
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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Blood is minimal and gore revolves only around the clay sculptures engulfing the sculptures. The furthest blood shown in a hand with dripping blood.
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Is there gun violence?
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A cop threatens to kill Walter by pointing a gun when he's unsatisfied with Walter's ignorance on drugs.
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