#cult-film

#cult-film

Given its provenance, it's no surprise that no one here says, as they do in the rival documentary, that the 1975 film adaptation is a shitty fucking movie but nevertheless there's honesty on display, mostly about the slapdash origins of the project and the later mistakes made, including the huge flop when the original stage production tried to transfer from Los Angeles to Broadway.

Directed by the King of Cult Cinema, Roger Corman, 1960's, , approached the burgeoning horror genre farcically, employing humor to tell the story of a florist's assistant who begins feeding his plants human blood. Thanks to word-of-mouth, acclaim, and an appearance of young Jack Nicholson, became a cult hit. This led to various adaptations over the years, including a 1986 movie retelling, which served as the basis for the off-Broadway musical of the same name.

Hicks explained, 'The plan was always to build an actual space, so these pop-ups gave me a means to get more experience, which I definitely needed since I was pretty green in the realms of programming and projection.'