A Bucket of Blood is a 1959
American black comedy horror film directed by
Roger Corman. It starred
Dick Miller and was set in
beatnik culture. The film, produced on a $50,000 budget, was shot in five days and shares many of the low-budget filmmaking
aesthetics commonly associated with Corman's work. Written by
Charles B. Griffith, the film is a
dark comic satire about a dimwitted, impressionable young busboy at a
Bohemian café who is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor when he accidentally kills his landlady's cat and covers its body in clay to hide the evidence. When he is pressured to create similar work, he becomes murderous.