A Bucket of Blood
Movie • 1959 • Comedy
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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.
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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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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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Addiction
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Mentioning of heroin.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Walter gets highly drunk at one point.
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Smoking cigarettes, heroin and cannabis are used throughout the movie.
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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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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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The first 15 minutes or so involves the death and subsequent corpse of a beloved cat, Frankie.
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Does a pet die?
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Frankie, the cat, dies at the start.
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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 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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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 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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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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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 drugged?
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Alcohol intake and heroin consommation, as well as smoking. Walter gets accused of buying heroin from a woman.
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I don't know who said yes: there's a lot of misoginy in the movie, it was made in 1969, but no women get slapped.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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All corpses are covered in clay, so mouths are covered as well.
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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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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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Unless you count eyes being sculpted within the clay, no.
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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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Is there body horror?
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All of Walter's murders are trapped within clay.
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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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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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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 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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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 throat mutilation?
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A woman is choked with her own scarf, and the statue made out of her shows choking scars around her neck.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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A woman is choked to death. You only hear a brief sound, none of her struggle is shown.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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A woman is choked to death, though the scene itself is not shown. Only a brief sound plays.
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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 hands damaged?
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The furthest it goes is showing blood dripping from a hand.
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Is someone choked?
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A woman is choked to death with her own scarf.
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Is someone stabbed?
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The cat, Frankie, is stabbed negligently at the start.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Unconcious... more like killed.
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Does someone die?
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Multiple... it's a murder movie...
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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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Are there mannequins?
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The statues eerily resemble mannequins.
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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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Law Enforcement
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It's debatable: cops are shown to be very bad and incompetent in the first 30 minutes, but the audience also has to feel bad for the cop who threathened to shoot Walter. (Which made him panic and kill the cop.)
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Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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The first statue has cracks showing the cat's fur.
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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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Towards the end, a suicide by hanging occurs.
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Attempts and succeeds, towards the end of the movie.
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Is autism misrepresented?
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No, but Walter's behaviour is reminiscent of someone with learning difficulties.
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Is there misophonia?
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The movie was published in 1969, so the grainy sound of the audio might be unpleasant to people with misophonia.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Walter is clearly unstable to have committed the murders to get recognition.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Towards the end, Walter has a meltdown before his demise.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Walter is very much unstable with an excessively low self-esteem and he murders to get that recognition he craves.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Towards the end, Walter hears voices in which he feels as though it could be the ghost of his victims, but he's also already unstable. The nature of the voices can be debated.
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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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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Nope, only music that gets louder and quieter.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Walter stalks Alice to her home without her knowing.
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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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Is there aphobia?
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Carla refuses men's advances in which her wishes are never respected, but that could be as much interpreted as general misoginy than aphobia.
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Race
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Are there demons or Hell?
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No, but there's the idea of ghosts talking to Walter towards the end.
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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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Are there nude scenes?
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Alice is a nude model and is paid by Walter to pose for him. She's shown posing nude to him, but we don't see her genitals, only her nude back or underwear at most.
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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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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
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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