The Little Shop of Horrors from "A Bucket of Blood". The film slowly gained a cult following through word of mouth when it was distributed as the B movie in a double feature with Mario Bava's "Black Sunday" and later with "Last Woman on Earth". The film's popularity increased with local television broadcasts, in addition to the presence of a young Jack Nicholson, whose small role in the film has been prominently promoted on home video releases of the film. The film was the basis for an Off-Broadway musical, "Little Shop of Horrors", which was notably made into a 1986 feature film and enjoyed a
The Little Shop of Horrors to happen the last week in December 1959. Interiors were shot with three cameras in wide, lingering master shots in single takes. Welles states that Corman "had two camera crews on the set—that's why the picture, from a cinematic standpoint, is really not very well done. The two camera crews were pointed in opposite directions so that we got both angles, and then other shots were 'picked up' to use in between, to make it flow. It was a pretty fixed set and it was done sort of like a sitcom is done today, so it wasn't very difficult." At