A Bucket of Blood

Corman, directing
Interjecting, infecting

Paisly, Walter
Serves out the water

Yearning for more
Eyes upon a distant shore

To be an artist
To be not a bus boy

By any means
Death may it be

Ya Daddy O

1959. The year of the beatnik. Dobie Gillis need not apply, he’s already arrived. (I feeling it, ya dig?)

Young Walter Paisley is a simple lad. He busses tables at the local beatnik brew pub, night after night listening to the music and poetry of those more talented than he. Walter’s in love with Carla, wants nothing more to be famous and win Carla’s love. In Walter’s simple mind, there’s no way Carla could love one such as he, unless he can show some kind of artistic talent! That just wouldn’t jive!

One night while at home in his boarding home apartment, Walter hear’s the landlady’s cat, stuck in the wall. In an effort to save the cat, Walter accidentally kills it. To cover up his accident, Walter decides to encase the cat in modeling clay, and pass it off as a sculpture.

Instantly surprised at his sculpting skill, the denizens of the pub want more more more from the budding artist, and thus begins Walter’s path to fame.

This is Roger Corman here folks, not Shakespeare. Renowned for corn, cheese and cheek, A Bucket of Blood doesn’t disappoint. Hilarity abounds, although dark, as the bumbling Walter falls deeper and deeper into his lies and fame.

Really, like I said before, this is a Corman movie, so there’s not much else to add. The story sticks, and so do the laughs, and that’s what you come to see!

4 Snaps out of 5

The Gooch

The Monster Squad

Great googly moogly folks. This is it. This is quite possibly one of my all time favs, The Monster Squad. The Goonies, with Monsters!

I won’t go into too much depth on this review, as my fanboy is definitely showing on this one. Growing up, I wore this movie out on VHS!

A group of neighborhood friends, all in love with monster movies, notice a suspicious new neighbor who has moved to town, and drives a hearse. Woah! Monsters! Dracula has come to town, to find a sacred amulet, hidden at Van Helsing’s former mansion. Bringing along his best friends to help in the task, Wolfman, Mummy, The Creature and Frankenstein, they wreak havoc up on the boys, to reach their ultimate goal!

Filled with the 80’s, the Monster Squad is a cult classic, that is probably in my top five movies ever. Really, I can’t go on without gushing over it, it wouldn’t be fair. Head over to IMDb, and read up. You’ll love it, I promise.

5 Wolfman Nards out of 5

The Gooch