A plant that bites the hand that feeds it is the star of Roger Corman's classic black comedy, famous for having been shot in two and one-half days (o.k., with one day for rehearsal). Seymour Krelboined is a schnooky clerk in a skid-row flower shop whose prize possession is the above-mentioned plant, a dying hybrid which (or who?) he discovers can only survive if fed a steady diet of blood. It becomes for Seymour a veritable vegetable dominatrix, girlfriend/mother/black hole, carping "feed me, feed me." After offering up assorted tramps and streetwalkers from the neighborhood, Seymour makes the ultimate personal sacrifice for the now-enormous plant. Roger Corman was called the Fellini of Exploitation Films and The Little Shop of Horrors resonates on levels other than the tasteless. A treasured highlight of the film is Jack Nicholson in an early appearance as a masochist who is happiest in the dentist's chair.