4 old horror flicks by corman

to be completed as watched

bucket of blood: i have to admit i watched this on "elvira's movie macabre" which made it a bit more tolerable. its beat culture horror. i'll admit the beat culture escapes me; everything is about looking/sounding/acting "cool", pseudo intellectual babble, escapism drugs and drinking, and faking it. faking it. thats a truth. when i encounter anything 'beat' it seems fraudulent to me because its so obsessed with vanity. and its not even a decent vanity. i rant though... if they scraped the poetry from this it would've been better. their attempts at portraying art is...fairly commonly...absurd. and theres not a person in this film you'd want to spend 5 minutes with. that being said the tale of the story is actually good. a somewhat low IQ man wants to fit in with the beats that he meets in the cafe he buses for. he starts making sculptures by turning a cat he kills on accident into a clay sculpture (forgo any understanding of how sculpture is made for this to happen) and then is "talked into" or persuaded to make more. to do this he must kill again...except this time his subject is a human. at some point his "dealer" discovers his secret but is persuaded to over look it when a generous offer is made to buy the works.
this movie is ripe for a remake (is there anything like that?). fairly watchable if annoyingly 'beat'.
(6/10)