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Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia: A Bucket of Blood

Roger Corman (Director), Mr. Lobo (Actor), Dick Miller (Actor) Format: DVD

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Mister Lobo celebrates 20 years of hosting his show Cinema Insomnia. In the tradition of those classic horror shows like Chiller Theatre and Creature Features, host Lobo appears in brief vignettes between segments of the "late late night movie." Various and sundry wacky characters have appeared over the show's two-decade run -- including houseplant sidekick Miss Mittens. Cinema Insomnia has been seen on hundreds of local television and cable channels, and Lobo continues to be a regular guest at conventions like Wondercon and Monster Bash. He was even parodied in an episode of Scooby-Doo. Known as an advocate for "Bad Movies", Mr. Lobo lives by the motto, "They're not bad movies...just...misunderstood."

Have a sip of a dark roasted original classic hosted by Mr. Lobo! Cinema Insomnia serves up A Bucket of Blood, the Roger Corman cult favorite that takes place at a pretentious beatnik coffee house! B-movie legend Dick Miller (known for his countless cameos in movies such as Gremlins and The Terminator) plays Walter Paisley, a clueless coffee shop boy who just wants to make it with some swingin' hipster chicks, man. When he accidentally stabs his landlady's cat and covers it in clay, he somehow creates a masterpiece - but now he has to keep killing to create more objets d'art! While wanna-be artist Walter kills for his art, Mr. Lobo attempts to work off his Cappuccino tab at the local java shop and accidentally sort of starts grinding up customers! But just like in the film, the patrons become enamoured with Mr. L's Secret Blend! It's the opposite of square, Daddy-o! It's close to 2 hours of slumber party fun brought to you through the miracle of...BLOOD-O-VISION!

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Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.48 x 5.39 x 0.67 inches; 2.72 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Roger Corman
Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD, NTSC
Release date ‏ : ‎ October 20, 2022
Actors ‏ : ‎ Mr. Lobo, Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone
Studio ‏ : ‎ Alpha Video
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09R3BS3QM
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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B-movie gem; excellent Beat Generation script and dialogue!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 19, 2022

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This 1959 Roger Corman film is a low-budget gem! On streaming, there is both a b&w and colorized version. I highly recommend the b&w, as there's a nice contrast and 50s vibe to it.

This film stars character actor Dick Miller, and he is great with his expressions and acting. Yes, there are murders, but they aren't very gruesome (I am sensitive to that). A cat dies, but it is such a fake looking cat (and it is actually unintentional and the death is not shown) that it's not very disturbing.

The highlights of the film are the beat setting and the script. Oh, and the music!! (jazz sax and an excellent singer). The dialogue is sharp and witty and is filled with beat lingo. The actors also are quite good and make even the casual conversations among them interesting. The Poet is great, and his poetry is actually quite amusing and (pseudo)intellectual.

This is all to say: See A Bucket of Blood at least once. Oh, and there aren't actually buckets of blood shown anywhere!!

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Will YOU join his human museum?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 24, 2004

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Dick Miller, one of the more popular character actors in Hollywood, whom I remember most from such movies as Gremlins (1984), Matinee (1993), and Demon Knight (1995) stars in this Roger Corman classic from 1959.

Miller is Walter Paisley, a simple-minded man with high aspirations who works in a beatnik coffee shop, The Yellow Door, as a busboy. He desperately wants to fit in, but finds himself usually the butt of jokes from some of the more pretentious bohemian crowd. The main reason for Walter's desire to be in the 'in crowd' is Carla, played by Barboura Morris, who I just saw in another Corman movie, The Wasp Woman (1960). Carla also works at The Yellow Door, and is really the only one that treats Walter with respect and kindness. One night while at home, Walter is struggling with some clay, trying to create a bust of Carla, but his efforts are in vain. After accidentally killing his landlord's cat with a knife, Walter tries to hide what he did by covering the cat, and the protruding knife, with clay and inadvertently creates his first work of art, aptly titled 'Dead Cat'. Walter soon gains acclaim for his sculpture, and his career as an artist is born. The pressure of coming up with new pieces leads him to use human models creating grisly, realistic, highly detailed sculptures of figures in death throes. Soon Walter becomes the talk of the community, with fame and fortune sure to follow...or does it?

I really enjoyed this movie, which is basically an update of one of my favorite movies, House of Wax (1953) starring Vincent Price. The beatnik angle played nicely off the more gruesome elements of the movie, providing levity in this dark psuedo comedy. What I really liked was the beatniks were shown in different fashion, some being played for comedic effect, while others being played a little more seriously. There wasn't a sense of trivializing the movement, but more of poking a little fun at it. Some other actors I recognized were Ed Nelson, whom I recently saw in Night of the Blood Beast (1958) and perennial 70's TV favorite and host of many a game show, Bert Convy, looking so very young I almost didn't recognize him. Along with Dick Miller's performance, I also really enjoyed the barrel-chested beat poet character Maxwell H. Brock, played by Julian Burton. He delivers some truly interesting poetry in eloquent fashion.

The film has a short run time, at 66 minutes, which tended to keep the pacing snappy. Corman really shows why, even though his movie may have been made cheaply, they didn't always have to look cheap, with his professional direction and ability to keep things interesting by drawing out great performances from his actors. The case does mention a trailer for A Bucket of Blood included, but I found none. What I did find was an excellent copy of the film on this DVD, well worth getting if you enjoy black humor.

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James C Girasa

Terrific 50's Roger Corman B & W quickie

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 2, 2016

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I just purchased the Blu-Ray Olive Signature version of this film. Even though my review was made in 2016, I'm updating it a bit for people who are looking to upgrade. My old review is not much of a review. I should probably review the actual movie one of these days.

I'm still giving this movie 5 stars because I like it!

NEW REVIEW: Olive Signature edition

BLU-RAY PICTURE: This is a new 4K scan. Don't expect miracles. The picture is nice but it is far from perfect. There is a lot of film grain and the picture is not as sharp as I hoped. This is a 'noirish' type of film so there is a lot
of nighttime and 'shadowy' scenes. Overall, I 'd have to say I'm a bit disappointed with the picture. I'm not saying that it is a wasted effort but it's just not as good as I had hoped. The movie is shown in widescreen 1.85:1 aspect ratio.

EXTRA'S: There are plenty of extra's and these help make this a good release. The extra's are:

-Audio Commentary with Ilijah Drenner - Drenner is the director of 'That Guy Dick Miller'. So he is the go to guy for a movie such as this where Dick Miller gets a rare starring role.
-Roger Corman interview :'Creation is. All Else is Not' - This is a short recent interview with Corman.
-Interview with Dick and Lainie Miller on a Bucket of Blood "Call me Paisley" - Miller is very old in this interview. He would pass away a short time after it was made. The good news is that he still has his wits and he is able to
recall a lot of stuff. His wife is sharper than he is. Overall, it's a good interview and worth watching.
-Archival interview with screenwriter Charles B. Griffith
-'Bits of Bucket' - This is a visual essay comparing the original script to the final script of the film.
-Prologue from German release of this movie.
-Super 8 version of this movie. - This is one of the those shortened video's that you used to be able to purchase a
long time ago.
-Theatrical Trailer
-German Theatrical Trailer
-Gallery of newly-discoverd on-set photography.
-Subtitles

MY OLD REVIEW: Film Detective version
This movie was very well done and I was caught off guard as to how good it was. Good in the way that 'Little Shop of Horrors' was good. It was meant to be a quickly made low budget film and it turned into something more.

Though not as big a fan of Roger Corman as many others, he does a great job with a low budget here. Dick Miller turns in a great performance as a waiter with low self esteem who wants to impress the artist community he serves.

The Blu-ray transfer is decent, but not exactly great. Still, it's great to be able to get a blu-ray on movie such as this.

Highly recommended and well worth the $9.99 purchase price on Amazon.

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Mr. Paul D. Maher

A companion piece to John Waters' Pecker

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 21, 2011

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Bucket of Blood is a hilarious horror film where the action takes place in the middle of the most amazingly crafted portrayal of the late-fifties beatnick movement, only a few notches above Reefer Madness in it's exageration of the stereotypes but completely knowing and very clever.

Amusingly, it is also a perfectly workable pastiche of performance art from the fifties until now, the opening poetry reading goes the 5% too far to acknowledge that it is sending up the genre without needing to become too cartoony or insulting our intelligence. While the plot of the film is pure horror fun, a lot of care has been taken with creating the beatnick world, with credible musicians, affected artists, dubious aesthetics and a perfect send up of how arbitrary objects (in this case a dead cat impaled on a knife covered in clay) can attain significance in such an abstract world.

The story is simple enough, Walter is a slow-witted waiter in an art cafe with ambitions to become an artist while being taunted by the customers. In a fluke accident he stabs a cat in the cavity between plasterboard walls and covers the cat, knife and all with clay and gingerly presents the 'piece' to the art community, who, of course see all kinds of meanings in what they think is a sculpture.

The story spirals as Walter moves on to people, each with great horror-film reasons for the victims finding their way into his work before tension mounts as the cafe owner, with a financial interest in Walter's collectable work, knows the truth but lets Walter hold an art show and his secret becomes more and more precarious.

I won't spoil the ending but apparently it doesn't end how you'd guess because they didn't have enough clay!

In the same way that John Water's Pecker Pecker [DVD] [1999] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC ]
is a love story that plays with the New York art scene, Bucket of Blood is a horror story that plays with the beatnick art moevement and because those worlds continue today, I suspect it will be timeless as a dig at pretention.

It's a lot of fun.

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DangerHiVoltage

with a picture that looks like it's been taken from a third generation VHS recording

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 26, 2015

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This relates to the 2007 "Boulevard Entertainment" UK DVD release.
Sadly, just a typically "thrown out there" public domain release, with a picture that looks like it's been taken from a third generation VHS recording. There's even an upload on YouTube that's way better than this version!
The film itself is worth 4 stars, with the ever-watchable Dick Miller in fine form.

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r a price

Only for Roger Corman fans.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 1, 2016

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Dated and boring.

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patrick

A masterpiece.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 8, 2020

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My entourage is thinking Oscar nomination.

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Not worth watching

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 29, 2013

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I know you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, or in this case a DVD. However the cover gives the impression of a modern horror, as does the fact it's made in 2007. It's actually a black and white, old horror film. I got 10 minutes in and had to turn it off, I know I didn't give it much of a chance but I personally don't like black and white movies. There are old school horror movie lovers out there who would probably like this but not me.

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