Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
May 2005 activity
Total Log Entries: 27
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- 13 Going On 30 (1)
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- Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (5)
- Big Daddy (3)
- Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (1)
- Napoleon Dynamite (0)
- Meet the Fockers (1)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (0)
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A Bucket of Blood / USA / 1959
Rumor has it that it took director Roger Corman only five days to film this sixty-six minute feature, but the fact takes nothing away from the top-notch horror in evidence. Dick Miller is Walter Paisley, a bumbling bus boy who wants nothing more than to join the ranks of his bohemian artist idols. When an accident lands a dead cat in his midst, Walter decides to cover the corpse with clay and pass it off as sculpture. Surprisingly, the cat’s a hit, and everyone wants to know what Walter’ll come up with next. Desperate to stay in the limelight, Walter decides that his next piece must be a person. And the horror begins.
Working with next to nothing in terms of special effects or lavish settings, Corman was forced to rely on little more than his story and his performers. Thankfully, Miller’s Walter is instantly pitable and horrific, Julian Burton’s gregarious improvisational cafe poet is wonderfully evokative of the beatnik ethos, and the simply told story of a man pushing himself to the brink in search of fame and acceptance is at once believable and terrifying.
by Thomas Scalzo | Source: Platinum Disc Corporation DVD
16 May 2005 7:51 PM | Submit Comment