Little Shop Of Horrors (dvd)

Hilarious, cheapie black comedy from 1960 that may be the best film by B-picture master Roger Corman, other than "Bucket Of Blood", made about the same time wi...th the same writer, Charles Griffith. Syemour (Jonathan Hase) is an assistant in a skid-row flower shop who's at the point losing his job when the unusual plant needs human blood to live, all the while crying, "Feed Me!Feed Me!" Luckily, Seymour causes a series of inadvertent deaths that more than make up for the food shortage. Jack Nickleson provides a comic sidebar as a nutjob masochist visiting a dentist's office. Giggling and wild-eyed from the same impulse that might lead others to read scandal sheets, he can be seen in the dentist's waiting room reading aloud from Pain Magazine, Famous for having the shortest shooting schedule on record (two days and a night,("The Little Shop Of Horrors" spawned an off-Broadway musical that was in turn made into a successful film in 1986, starring Rick Moranis and Steve Martin. It was in just this quick-shoot atmosphere that Corman nurtured the careers of many of America's most celebrated film director; this little shop of honors include Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorses, and Jonathan Demme.<br><br> Interactive Menus, Scene Selection.<br><br> Trivia Quiz, Biographies.Detailed info »« Brief info