The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American black comedy horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman, shot in two days on leftover sets for under $30,000. Seymour Krelboyne, a nerdy florist's assistant, discovers and nurtures a carnivorous plant of mysterious origin — which demands to be fed human blood, then human flesh.

The film is famous as the screen debut of Jack Nicholson, who appears briefly as a masochistic dental patient who enjoys the pain. Shot on a shoestring budget with improvised dialogue, the film became a cult classic and later inspired a successful 1982 off-Broadway musical by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, subsequently adapted into a 1986 film. The original entered the public domain due to missing copyright notice.

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Video source: Internet Archive — the_little_shop_of_horrors · Public domain

Chapters

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1. 00:00 Mushnik's Skid Row Florists — Seymour and the strange new cutting
2. 08:00 The plant grows rapidly when fed Seymour's blood
3. 15:00 The plant — Audrey Jr. — demands more; Seymour's first victim
4. 30:00 Seymour becomes a local celebrity as the plant blooms
5. 45:00 The plant's demands escalate; Seymour is trapped
6. 60:00 The plant's interior revealed — the reckoning

References

1. McGee, Mark Thomas. Roger Corman: The Best of the Cheap Acts. McFarland, 1988.
2. Gray, Beverly. Roger Corman: An Unauthorized Life. Renaissance Books, 2000.