A Bucket of Blood

In the darkly comedic satire "A Bucket of Blood," a clumsy busboy at a beatnik café becomes an unlikely sensation as a brilliant sculptor, thanks to his accidental killings of two cats, which he covers in clay to hide the evidence. As Walter Paisley's notoriety grows, so does his talent - and his taste for violence. Directed by Roger Corman on a shoestring budget of just $50,000, this 1959 horror comedy is a biting satire of the art world, low-budget filmmaking, and the beatnik culture of 1950s Southern California.