Little Shop of Horrors

In a famous scene, which alone makes "Little Shop" worth watching, future superstar Jack Nicholson plays a masochistic undertaker who enjoys having a few healthy teeth pulled at the dentist. This is one of the first scenes in which Jack Nicholson displays his famous demonic grin.


Seymour, the film's hero, works for a run-down florist. At work, he finds a new plant, which he names Audrey Jr. It thrives and may just save the flower shop from ruin. In fact, buyers line up as the flower becomes more and more beautiful. Until Seymour discovers that it needs human blood to grow.


Audrey Jr. grows larger and larger as Seymour feeds her the corpse of a man he accidentally killed. He is terrified and fearful of being exposed, but gradually, all the story's protagonists become entangled in their own little "accidental murders," and all their corpses end up—in Audrey Jr.


The dark humor takes a turn until Seymour decides to put an end to the degrading spectacle and jumps into the plant himself.

• Little Shop of Horrors
  
• Roger Corman, USA 1960, 70 min, b/w, German subtitles
  
• Cast: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Jack Nicholson
  

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