The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American black comedy horror film directed and produced by Roger Corman. Notorious for being shot in just two days on a very low budget, the film has developed a significant cult following and served as the basis for a successful stage musical, which in turn was adapted into a popular 1986 film. Jonathan Haze as Seymour Krelboyne Jackie Joseph as Audrey Fulquard Mel Welles as Gravis Mushnick Dick Miller as Burson Fouch, a customer who eats flowers Jack Nicholson in an early small role as Wilbur Force, a masochistic dental patient who gets giddy over the prospect of having his teeth pulled by a sadistic dentist (played by Dick Miller in the later musical film adaptation). a clumsy and inadequate assistant at a run-down Skid Row flower shop owned by Gravis Mushnick (Mel Welles). Business is terrible until Seymour reveals a strange, exotic plant he cultivated from seeds obtained from an "oriental street vendor". He names the plant "Audrey Jr." after his co-worker and crush, Audrey Fulquard (Jackie Joseph). The plant, however, is far from normal. Seymour soon discovers that "Audrey Jr." has an insatiable appetite for human blood and flesh