At the beginning of the film, we are shown a flower shop employee named Seymour. Seymour isn't
alone; he has a colleague named Audrey. But the different is Audrey, is well-cared for by Mr.
Mushnik, the shop owner. Meanwhile, Seymour constantly scolded by Mr Mushnik for
his careless work habits. Furthermore, Mr. Mushnik is quite emotional since his flower
shop hasn't been visited by customers in months. The business was so slow that the three of
them couldn't think of anything else to do. In the end, Mr. Mushnik had no other choice
but to close his shop from tomorrow morning until an unknown time in the future.
As a result, Audrey provided
Mr. Mushnik an idea regarding a strange and unique plant that Seymour found in the shop's
backyard. However, Mr. Mushnik wasn't sure that his shop would became crowded by relying
on the strange plant he has found. In fact, Seymour himself is not sure how attractive
this plant will be if it is seen by visitors. But after just a few seconds, there was already
one visitor who was interested in the plant. This made Mr. Mushnik was both confused and
excited as a result of the sudden increase of visitors to his shop. As a result, Audrey,
Seymour and also Mr. Mushnik decided not to sell the strange plant, but instead they uses
it as an attraction to encourage everyone to purchase other plants. Mr. Mushnik who
was proud with his two employees' idea, invited them to dinner tonight. However, Audrey had
to refuse the invitation, since she had promised her boyfriend for a weekend away. Mr. Mushnik
also claims Audrey has lately been a victim of assault.
Since dinner had been cancelled, he then asked Seymour to look after the plant as an extra
task. At the moment, there really isn't much entertainment for Seymour other than the strange
plant he's found. But that wasn't the case, Seymour had absolutely no idea why this plant
had wilted in a while. Despite the fact that he was very consistent in fertilising, watering,
and exposed it to sunlight throughout the day.
Until one moment, Seymour's hand was pricked by a thorn from another plant, causing him
to bleed through his finger. This is the moment when Seymour notices that something is wrong
with the plant. The plant was moving suddenly, telling Seymour to feed it something.
Plus the only food requested turned out to be the blood on Seymour's finger. Surprisingly, the
plant was able to detect which finger was bleeding and which was not.
Seymour had no other choice, and he was forced to feed the plant with drops of his blood.
As we can see, after being fed, the plant genuinely swallowed fresh blood from Seymour's
finger. In fact, just a few drops of blood was able to make the plant’s size growth
by a few inches. Long story short, because its size continues to grow day by day, Seymour
was invited by the local radio to explain the phenomenon.
However, the only thing that no one else knew about the plant was that it was sucking Seymour's
blood all the time. Seymour was forced to feed it his own blood every time, despite
the fact that he had no idea how long he'd have to do it. Moreover, the plant grows so
quick until it reaches the height of a teenager. Of course, this attraction makes local residents
excited to come to the shop, which keeps Mr Mushnik busy to serve them.
Mr Mushnik also doesn't seem to care about Seymour at all, despite the fact that Seymour
has made significant sacrifices. As a result, Audrey, who had became Seymour's only confidant,
planned to take him for a walk that night. After that, the scene switches to Audrey’s
boyfriend, Orin. He works as a dentist and has a habit of using violence in the course
of his profession, which causes his patients to be traumatised and unwilling to return.
Seymour, who was excited to spend time with Audrey, suddenly approached
by Orin in front of his house. From here, it turns out that Seymour has been living
in Mr. Mushnik's flower shop all this time, since he had no family in the city. He
had also witness how Orin treated Audrey. In other words, this proves Mr. Mushnik's
claim that Audrey had always been a victim of her boyfriend's aggression.
Seymour's plan was therefore cancelled, and he returned to his daily routine of spending time
time with his strange plant. However, just he was about to go to sleep, the plant suddenly
wilted again. Following that, he was shocked to hear the plant was able to speak. Of course, the
plant immediately told Seymour that it was time to feed it. The problem is, no matter
how Seymour continues to refuse and avoid, the plant kept forcing him to find it
a food. Seymour didn't really know what to do at the
time. He then saw Orin who was forcing Audrey to walk home as a punishment. Seymour who
saw this could no longer hold his emotions, and he eventually set up a plan to carry out
an assassination. The next day, Seymour deliberately came to Orin's workplace and
pretended to be a patient. But before that, he had to wait for Orin to
finish treating one of his patients. After minutes of waiting , it was now his turn.
Before dealing with Seymour, Orin put on the gas mask he had just bought while traveling
with Audrey. I'm not sure what his purpose was, but what is clear that Seymour immediately
took advantage of the situation to shoot Orin. However, the probem is he doesn't dare
to kill people, and Orin was finally killed by his own mask right away.
As a result, the body of Orin who had died was dragged by Seymour far away from the place
until he arrived at the flower shop. Orin's body then was dragged back into the backyard
to be cut into pieces. Mr. Mushnik, on the other hand, seems to have been away,
and is now walking towards his house to return home. Plus, his house was just next to his shop,
causing him to hear Seymour's ax swinging. As a result of his curiosity, Mr Mushnik then
went to find out, and he saw Seymour dismembering someone's body. After that, he immediately
fed the plant with Orin's body.
As the day passed, Seymour who was worried about his
actions, saw Audrey who was being approached by two policemen. It turned out that the two
policemen questioned Audrey regarding the disappearance of Orin who was not working
today. When Seymour heard of this, he told
Audrey to forget about Orin who was always assaulting her. Plus, Audrey admitted
that she acutally couldn't stand Orin's presence anymore. Seymour then confessed his feelings
to Audrey, while soothing her with all kind of seduction.
After that, Seymour who had finished spend time with Audrey then returned to the shop.
However, he was surprised by the presence of Mr. Mushnik who was already in the basement.
Mr. Mushnik threatened him to take responsibility for his actions before. He revealed that he was a
witness to the assassination late at previous night, and he also told Seymour to confess to the
police. But in just a few minutes, Mr. Mushnik changed his mind and instead offered Seymour
another solution, on the condition that he be allowed to leave town for a few months.
In the meantime, Mr. Mushnik will look after the plant himself. But, Mr. Mushnik
was not welcomed by the plant, which instead turned him into a meal that he ate in his
own shop.
A few days after the incident, instead of being a fugitive, Seymour was visited by
many of tv companies. A large number of media outlets requested Seymour's signature
in order to have an interview with him.
At this point, the plant had grown to the point that it was touching
the shop's ceiling. When the interview was about to start, the plant suddenly wilted
again, leaving everyone confused. As a result, Seymour then rushed them all out, claiming
he was going to provide medication to the plant, despite that he was just confused how
to feed the plant in such crowded conditions. After that, Seymour got an idea when he saw
his girlfriend. The idea is he planned to use the money from the tv company as well
as the magazine to get out of the city. Plus, their lives will undoubtedly be more peaceful,
without the presence of that plant. In the evening, Seymour attempted to secretly run
away, leaving the wilting plant without food. But he was again forced to look for food,
which he finally agreed to. But since he was in a hurry, he just planned
to buy animal meat. At the same time, Audrey who was on call saw the plant moving while
staring at her. As a result, Audrey became curious, until she went straight to the flower
shop. As she entered the shop, she was surprised to hear that the plant was able to speak to
her. But unfortunately, Audrey was immediately pulled and swallowed at the moment.
Seymour, who had just arrived, immediately
tried to save Audrey who had been swallowed half her body. Well, despite the fact that
Audrey was successfully rescued, but in the end, she had to die because of the poison
from the plant's mouth. He was sad because the only woman he loved had to die in front
of his eyes. Seymour with a broken heart, made Audrey the last food for the plant.
Once Seymour finished feeding the plant, he was at a loss for what to do, so rushed to
the top of the building and decided to commit suicide. However, he was surprised by the
presence of journalists who was already on the rooftop. The reporter admitted he had
taken some parts of the plant at the time of the interview. The result of his actions
were not in vain since he managed to grow a similar plant in his house.
Even worse, the journalists who had been tempted by a dollar, decided to produce the plant
in large quantities. And of course, he will sell these plants to everyone who are tempted
to have them. They had not yet realised the disaster for humanity would soon occur as
a result of this idea. At the same time, the plant's mother grew much larger than before.
Plus, the mother plant produces a large number of offspring.
In the end, Seymour as a keeper for the plant was eventually devoured alive. After a while,
these plants have been mass-produced and sold to the public. Despite the fact that they
were all had no idea how dangerous the plant was to their lives. In just a few days, the
plague of giant plants had started, which caused life in the city to fall in an instant.
They had to witness such a large man-eating plants had taken over the city in large numbers
intead of zombies. All the giant plants had threatened human life, no matter the place
or situation. And the film ends.