 This is Coppola's first movie, and it's produced by Roger Corman, the king of the B movie. Coppola had worked with Corman before as like a sound guy. Like a lot of people, they get their start working for Roger Corman, and you kind of go up the ranks, right? Yeah. Jack Nicholson did it. AHHHHH! Corman wanted to make kind of a psycho rip-off. Coppola wrote the script in one day and sent it to Corman, he's like, okay, here's $22,000, go make the movie.