Help me find a director/movie.

January 1, 2009 6:49 PM

Help me find the director/movie about a plant, treated as a baby, that eats people.

The movie is about a couple who can't conceive. They end up finding a plant baby/thing and it ends up eating people in the apartment complex they live in. The film used a lot of stop motion/claymation, it was in black&white and the director/film was French or Italian. The movie was probably based on Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

If I recall correctly the director is famous for his use of stop motion/claymation and people had posted a lot of his shorts on youtube. No idea when he was working but I would guess the film was 30+ years old.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

posted by Steph1en to media & arts (5 comments total)

Little Shop of Horrors?
posted by perrce at 6:59 PM on January 1

No, that's not it.
posted by Steph1en at 7:00 PM on January 1

Little Otik? Jan Svankmajer!
posted by hapticactionnetwork at 7:03 PM on January 1

Oops. Missed the black and white part. Perhaps its the original 1960 version of The Little Shop of Horrors. Even then the director is American, not Italian.
posted by perrce at 7:04 PM on January 1

Yes hapticactionnetwork! Looks like I was wrong about a lot of the additional info I gave. Yet you still found it. Thanks.
posted by Steph1en at 7:06 PM on January 1