In Roger Corman's most
popular film of all time, Jonathan Haze stars as the plant-lover
Seymour, who works in a sad little flower shop on the Lower East
Side of New York. One night, while trying to save an exotic
species from death, he accidentally cuts his finger, and blood
drips onto the plant. To his amazement, the plant begins to grow.
As the plant gets more and more insatiable, the movie gets more
and more outrageous--until at one point the plant is twelve feet
high and screaming "Feed me!" The whole thing was a joke, a movie
made on a dare that Corman couldn't make a film in two days. He
won the dare, with a little help from his friends, including Jack
Nicholson in a hysterically funny cameo as the dental patient who
ENJOYS his root canals. Inspired a hit Off-Broadway musical in
the eighties, which was in turn made into a big-budget film
starring Rick Moranis. With Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Myrtle
Van, Leola Wendorff, Dick Miller.
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