A Bucket of Blood (1959)
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A talentless, lovelorn busboy at a beatnik coffeehouse accidentally kills his landlady's cat, panics, and coats it in clay — and finds himself hailed as a sculptural genius, with worsening consequences for anyone who models for his next piece.
Shot in five days for the price of a B-picture’s catering budget, A Bucket of Blood is Roger Corman’s sharpest satire of the era’s beatnik pretensions — a joke about art-world gullibility that gets funnier, and grimmer, with every corpse Walter varnishes.
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