A Bucket of Blood (1959)

Corman shot it in five days as a joke about beatniks and accidentally made the best film ever made about being told you are talented. Walter kills to keep the compliments coming. Caustic is seventy-seven minutes of a band refusing every available exit — no relief, no chorus, no joke. Watch a man discover that an audience will accept anything if the texture is right. Then listen to a band test the same theory.

— PAH