Comments on: Bucket of Blood, A (1959)

By: Th.

Th. — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:54:07 +0000

Yeah, I love this movie too.

By: Inyarear

Inyarear — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:56:11 +0000

There might not have been a bucket of blood anywhere in evidence, but one scene did have a saucepan with some blood in it. I suppose “A Saucepan of Blood” probably wouldn’t have sold quite as well, though…

By: Felicity

Felicity — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:48:35 +0000

For that second-to-last screenshot, I would have made a “Scanners” reference. :-)

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:13:31 +0000

Ah, well. Can’t please everyone, I suppose.

By: Felicity

Felicity — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:20:43 +0000

I saw this movie a few years ago, and did not enjoy it. Its only redeeming quality, for me, was that I got to see Dick Miller (a character actor I love) when he was young.

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:44:09 +0000

Excuse me? The beats invented Rock n Roll? I don’t think so! Rock was born of blues and country music, not a bunch of rich, pretentious white kids. I don’t think the beats even liked rock. Jazz cats always looked down on rock. Until they were required to play it in a studio or touring gig. Having to play straight eighth notes sent em back to the woodshed!
Now you might be right about the fact that we wouldn’t have the hippies without the beats. But thats like saying without unprotected sex you wouldn’t have STDs

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:41:54 +0000

As I said, “I’m not saying that the artistic output of the Beats it without intrinsic worth. It just wasn’t nearly so special as its purveyors thought it was.”

By: Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Mabuse — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:42:44 +0000

Great assessment of the beats, although I would say that at least one beat had some literary talent. Michael McClure was a great beat poet, I actually got to hear him do some of his “beast” poetry live. He gave a great q&a session during a class I attended–one chick in the class asked a question of him–”mabuse says you and the other beat poets were sort of a “he-man woman haters club, is that true?” He responded like a gentleman, talking about how he avoided service in vietnam by claiming to be queer. The other beat poets are all has beens, and deservedly dead, but mcclure is very cool.

By: IL

IL — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:34:26 +0000

One thing I like about Roger Corman’s films is that while they might have something to say, their primary purpose was always to make a little money. That’s how they so often managed to avoid pretentiousness. I can imagine how the discussion that led to the making of this movie went:

“Let’s see… what should we do next?”

“How about a beatnik movie? The kids at the drive-ins like beatnik movies.”

“Sounds good. Let me check these scripts… [Flip, flip, flip.] Here’s a horror comedy about a guy who kills people to make himself a pop artist. If I change a few lines here and there… [Scribble, scribble, scribble.] All right, it’s a beatnik movie. Get that Dick Miller guy and anybody else who shows up for work today, and let’s run with it!”

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:51:57 +0000

I didn’t mean to imply that they were so consigned (any more than the groups before or after them); in fact, I was positioning them as their own movement, rather than simply the “not quite hippies” label that they often garner today.