

The Little Shop of Horrors was shot on a budget of $28,000 (about $240,000 in 2019), with interiors being shot in two days utilizing sets that had been left standing from A Bucket of Blood. Produced under the title The Passionate People Eater, the film employs an original style of humor, combining black comedy with farce and incorporating Jewish humor and elements of spoof. The film stars Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, and Dick Miller, who had all worked for Corman on previous films. Wells story "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid").

Clarke's 1956 sci-fi short story " The Reluctant Orchid" (which was in turn inspired by the 1905 H. Hollywood writer Dennis McDougal suggests that Griffith may have been influenced by Arthur C. The film's concept may have been inspired by "Green Thoughts," a 1932 story by John Collier about a man-eating plant. Griffith, the film is a farce about an inadequate florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood. The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American horror black comedy film directed by Roger Corman.
