Bucket of Blood

Sunday, December 16, 2007

This was another one of the horror movies I recorded off of TCM in October. Like The Pit and the Pendulum, it was directed by Roger Corman. It's an intentionally campy and satirical low budget 50's flick about a wannabe artist who finds success as a sculptor by killing people and encasing their corpses in clay.

It pokes a lot of fun at the pretentiousness of the art community of the day. A month or two back, I saw a recent horror film called Murder Party that was also a satricial look at the art community. I didn't really like that one; thought it had some funny and clever moments, but it kept forgetting that it was a horror comedy and really just wanted to be a gentle satire of hipster types. Both movies are short and silly, but Bucket of Blood is funnier and actually committed to being a horror movie. So there you go, guys who made Murder Party. Bucket of Blood did what you did almost 50 years before you did it, and did it better.