{"id":19170,"date":"2025-12-12T19:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=19170"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:06:11","slug":"retro-movies-a-bucket-of-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/12\/retro-movies-a-bucket-of-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Movies: A Bucket of Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:164,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=9gsqcZwdIf0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251008091842\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=9gsqcZwdIf0&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-13 03:06:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-21 02:30:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-24 13:06:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-29 12:01:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-11 23:05:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-19 00:36:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-26 09:13:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-04 11:10:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-10 10:37:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-16 16:28:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 14:31:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 17:26:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 22:27:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 21:36:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 16:24:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 02:28:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 02:28:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-bucket-of-blood-1.jpg\" alt=\"Stylized image of a statue\/corpse from A Bucket of Blood\" class=\"wp-image-19172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-bucket-of-blood-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-bucket-of-blood-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-bucket-of-blood-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-bucket-of-blood-2.jpg\" alt=\"Dick Miller and Antony Carbone in A Bucket of Blood.\" class=\"wp-image-19177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-bucket-of-blood-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-bucket-of-blood-2-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-bucket-of-blood-2-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure plaster doesn&#8217;t work like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s weirder than a 1959 Roger Corman movie about a busboy at a beatnik bar becoming a celebrated artist by murdering people and coating them in plaster? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9gsqcZwdIf0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A 1995 nearly shot-for-shot remake starring Anthony Michael Hall and a busload of character actors you&#8217;ll recognize.<\/a> I didn&#8217;t watch the remake, but everything in the trailer happened in the original movie (but with less nudity).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s fake poster comes from a different movie that mixes art and murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-bucket-of-blood-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for A Bucket of Blood mimicking the poster for Natural Born Killers.\" class=\"wp-image-19171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-bucket-of-blood-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-bucket-of-blood-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-bucket-of-blood-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-bucket-of-blood.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Miller&#8217;s finest leading man role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63],"tags":[350,78,10,394],"class_list":["post-19170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","tag-fake-posters","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-roger-corman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19409,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19170\/revisions\/19409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}