Roger Corman's camp 1960 horror-comedy was filmed as a bet on a budget of $27,000 over two or three days (sources vary!), and in its own small way remains a masterpiece of invention.
Though dated, it's really stylish, and looking at this crisp new black-and-white print, it's hard to imagine many of today's directors knocking out anything even half as entertaining given $50 million and six months.
Jonathan Haze plays Seymour, a florist's assistant who breeds a hybrid plant that feeds on human blood. Dick Miller as a flower-munching sophisticate and Jack Nicholson as a masochistic dental patient make up for the film's underwhelming pay-off.
