Gravis Mushnick’s Skid Row florist shop is financially floundering. Mushnick is about to fire his inept assistant Seymour Krelbonid when Seymour shows him the unique new hybrid plant he has created. He has named it Audrey Jr in honour of Mushnick’s other assistant Audrey¸ whom he secretly loves. The opportunistic Mushnick uses the plant as a drawcard and succeeds in drumming business back up. However the plant soon begins to wither and die. But then Seymour accidentally drips blood onto it after he is cut and it revives. As it grows bigger¸ it demands more blood and forces Seymour to go out and acquire human bodies to satiate its appetite. Director Roger Corman is a legend in the annals of B-movie making. Corman founded the New World Pictures¸ Concorde and New Horizons production companies and has personally produced over 300 films. Corman began in the 1950s making cheap Westerns and a whole stack of entertaining B-budget monster movies. (See below for Corman’s other genre titles as director). Into the 1960s Corman gained considerable critical acclaim with his series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations beginning with The House of Usher/The Fall of the House of Usher (1960). But of all Corman’s low-budget monster films¸ this is the most well remembered and one that has developed a considerable cult.