The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 comedy horror movie directed by Roger Corman, starring Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, and Dick Miller. It was in this movie that Jack Nicholson made one of his earliest appearances on film. He was years later quoted in Corman’s 1998 book recounting how he experienced the reception of the movie saying that the audience
“laughed so hard I could barely hear the dialogue. I didn’t quite register it right. It was as if I had forgotten it was a comedy since the shoot. I got all embarrassed because I’d never really had such a positive response before.”.
from the book ‘How I made a hundred movies in Hollywood and never lost a dime’ by Roger Corman
Premise
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
Review
“The acting is pleasantly preposterous. […] Horticulturalists and vegetarians will love it.”
Variety December 31, 1960 edition
Director
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American film director, producer, and actor. He has been called “The Pope of Pop Cinema” and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Many of Corman’s films are based on works that have an already-established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low-budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
Cast
 Jonathan Haze / Seymour Krelborn |  Jackie Joseph / Audrey Fulquard |
 Mel Welles / Gravis Mushnick |  Dick Miller / Burson Fouch |
Myrtle Vail / Winifred Krelborn
Karyn Kupcinet / Shirley
Toby Michaels / Teenage Girl
Leola Wendorff / Siddie Shiva
Lynn Storey / Mrs. Hortense Feuchtwanger
Wally Campo / Det. Sgt. Joe Fink / Narrator
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