Kleiner Laden voller Schrecken (1960)

Kleiner Laden voller Schrecken: Directed by Roger Corman. With Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller. A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it’s carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.

“Hereu0026#39;s a movie thatu0026#39;s gone from cult classic to just plain classic. For me, itu0026#39;s one of the few u0026quot;cult classicsu0026quot; I saw when it was released and then first shown on television. I loved it then, and I love it now.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eForget the musical re-make made in the 1980s. It couldnu0026#39;t hold a candle to the original.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Originalu0026quot; is what this is, too. and nowadays, itu0026#39;s great to have it on DVD in which the audio is clear and the picture pretty sharp.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI have always particularly enjoyed the many humorous lines delivered by Mel Welles, who plays the flower shop owner. He is the real comedian of the cast, although the plant does quite well as do the two leads played by Jonathan Haze and Jackie Joseph. The latter two are a little more subtle in their comedy. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAll the characters in here are totally whacked, from Hazeu0026#39;s hypochondriac mother to Dick Milleru0026#39;s flower-eating character to the Jewish mother who always has a dead relative to moan about and to the dentist and his patient. The latter, of course, is Jack Nicholson, making his movie debut and looking about 16 years old.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn the end, though, what one remembers most is the plant demanding, over and over, to u0026quot;Feeeeeed me!!u0026quot; u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFor that, the plant and the film never fail to make me laugh.”