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In Roger Corman's most popular film of all time, Jonathan Haze stars as the plant-lover Seymour, who works in a sad little flower shop on the Lower East Side of New York. One night, while trying to save an exotic species from death, he accidentally cuts his finger, and blood drips onto the plant. To his amazement, the plant begins to grow. As the plant gets more and more insatiable for blood, the movie gets more and more outrageous--until at one point the plant is twelve feet high and screaming "Feed me!" The whole thing was a joke, a movie made on a dare that Corman couldn't make a film in two days. He won the dare, with a little help from his friends, including Jack Nicholson in a hysterically funny cameo as the dental patient who ENJOYS his root canals. Inspired a hit Off-Broadway musical in the eighties, which was in turn made into a big-budget film starring Rick Moranis. With Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Myrtle Van, Leola Wendorff, Dick Miller (star of Corman's Bucket Of Blood).