Live Life Team
When you hear this title, you may think of the musical/comedy, but this review is on the 1960s movie made by Roger Corman. It’s said that he made it in four days when someone bet him that he couldn’t make a movie in so short a time. The movie was made about as cheaply as they come, and the premise is really quite silly: a shy florist grows a giant, man-eating (talking) plant.
The special effects are primitive (as you always get with a Corman film), and the cast largely unknowns; yet it’s still a fun film. Look for Jack Nicholson in a brief cameo as Wilbur Force, the masochistic dental patient.
Things start out poorly for poor Seymour Krelboin (Jonathan Haze), a down-on-his-luck young man. Then, he finds this plant and it starts to grow. When he accidentally hits a man with a rock and the man then gets hit by a train, the plant asks for the body. Then it grows, a lot! A hooker follows suit, and then the sadistic dentist, Dr. Phoebus Farb (John Shaner), and a crook who tries to rob the florist shop. When the plants flowers open, they have the faces of the missing people in them, and the police suspect Seymour of killing them. A chase ensues, and Seymour ends up back at the shop. The plant cries out for more food, and Seymour, knife in hand, climbs inside it to cut it to pieces.
Things don’t work out for him though. The next day, Audrey (Jackie Joseph), Mr. Mushnik (Mel Welles), and the police watch as another flower opens; this one with Seymour’s face in it.
