Sam Arkoff in Person Get more out of life, go to a movie! Better yet, see the trailers. Marketing was half the genius, and half the fun, at American International Pictures, and the trailers for films like Voodoo Woman, Reform School Girl, Amazing Colossal Man and The Brain Eaters are AIP, degree zero. Definitely time-capsule material. A Bucket of Blood is one of those tight, perfect little films that give exploitation pictures a good name. Dick Miller, one of the most talented comic actors in Corman's stock company, (has) a rare leading role as a busboy in a beatnik restaurant where "creativity" is the only measure of success. Miller is a likable schlemiel who hungers desperately after the rewards of creativity-girls, drugs, money-despite being totally untalented. Only when he accidentally kills his cat and covers it with clay do the beatniks realize there's a genius in their midst. Bucket is amazingly hip for a picture made in 1960, and it's also a great satire-not only on the Hollywood Beatnik phase of the fifties, but on Hollywood's general artsy-fartsy ambience as well. Shot on the cheap and in a hurry, using sets left over from another picture, it's Corman's first major film-and it holds up extremely well.-Michael Goodwin