This film is somewhat absurd in the same spirit as 'The Little Shop of Horrors' but with another theme.
We get to meet Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) a somewhat characteristical busboy at a café for bohemians, meaning artists of different kind or wannabes, some of them talented, others trying to act as if they were.
When returning home one evening he hears a miaowing sound and discovers that it emanates from behind the wall. In order to get the cat out, he uses a knife to cut a whole in the wall but unfortunately he cuts a whole in the cat too.
As it's his landlady's cat, he has to hide it when she comes to see him about the rent. In order to do so he covers the cat (with the knife sticking out of the body) in plaster and brings it to the café. There he now becomes celebrated as a great, more or less, surrealistic sculptor.
When asked how he achieved this work of art, he succeeds in fooling his friends, telling a story they all accept. The problem - as it becomes somewhat troublesome for him and not least for others - is that the bohemians now want to see more of his works.
As he totally lacks talent, he has to use the same method as with the cat, leading to that people in a mysterious way disappears.
It's bagatelle this film but for those of you appreciating somewhat absurd ideas (as I do), it's rather entertaining anyway.
Director? Roger Corman (surprise?!).
We get to meet Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) a somewhat characteristical busboy at a café for bohemians, meaning artists of different kind or wannabes, some of them talented, others trying to act as if they were.
When returning home one evening he hears a miaowing sound and discovers that it emanates from behind the wall. In order to get the cat out, he uses a knife to cut a whole in the wall but unfortunately he cuts a whole in the cat too.
As it's his landlady's cat, he has to hide it when she comes to see him about the rent. In order to do so he covers the cat (with the knife sticking out of the body) in plaster and brings it to the café. There he now becomes celebrated as a great, more or less, surrealistic sculptor.
When asked how he achieved this work of art, he succeeds in fooling his friends, telling a story they all accept. The problem - as it becomes somewhat troublesome for him and not least for others - is that the bohemians now want to see more of his works.
As he totally lacks talent, he has to use the same method as with the cat, leading to that people in a mysterious way disappears.
It's bagatelle this film but for those of you appreciating somewhat absurd ideas (as I do), it's rather entertaining anyway.
Director? Roger Corman (surprise?!).
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