Little Shop Of Horrors, The - Collector´s Edition

Hilarious, cheapie black comedy from 1960 that maybe the best film by B-picture master Roger Corman, other than ´Bucket of Blood´, made about the same time with the same writer, Charles Griffith. Seymour (Jonathan Haze) is an assistant in a skid-row flower shop who´s at the point of losing his job when the unusual plant he´s developed turns the store into a major attraction. The only problem is that the 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 Nicholson provides a comic sidebar as a nutjob masochist visiting a dentist´s office. Giggling and wide-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 directors; this little shop of honors included Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, and Jonathan Demme.