Trivia / A Bucket of Blood

• Actor-Inspired Element: Leonard's limp and cane was improvised by the actor, Antony Carbone, himself.
  • Maxwell wearing sandals was because his actor, Julian Burton, had to wear them for health reasons. This ended up fitting with the character's personality.
• Completely Different Title:
  • Argentina and Mexico: The False Sculptor
  • Austria and Germany: The Legacy of Professor Bondi
  • Greece: Bloody Sculptures
• Creator Backlash: Dick Miller was unhappy with how the movie looked in the end, though it was more to do with the low budget and making it look cheap than with the actual movie itself.
• Harpo Does Something Funny: All of Maxwell's poem parts were written by the actor, Julian Burton, himself.
• Recycled Set: Was filmed on leftover sets from Diary Of a High School Bride and sets from this movie were reused for The Little Shop of Horrors..
• Self-Adaptation: Director Roger Corman produced the 1995 remake.
• Working Title: The Living Dead
• Write What You Know: Some of the characters and their dialogues were based on actual people that Corman and writer Charles B. Griffith experienced at hip coffeehouses that they visited in Los Angeles.