Production Year: 1960 - Horror - Director: Roger Corman - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Mel Welles, Jack Nicholson, Dick Miller, Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph more
King of the B's director Roger Corman shot this crazy beat-era classic in a mere two days, but it packs plenty of inspired lunacy and clever bits in its 70-minute running time.... more
micro-budget movie-making. Scripted in a week and shot, according to Corman, in two days and one night, it made use of a pre-existing store-front set that serves as...
Little Shop of Horrors -
This version of the soundtrack to the hit musical is from the stage production, which ... more
ended rather differently than the movie: just about the entire cast (except for the backup singers) winds up as lunch for the hungry plant. As a result, this CD lacks the song "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space", which was written for the film. Instead, the recording closes with "Don't Feed the Plants", which is much more in keeping with the spirit of the rest of the musical. Little Shop of Horrors explores a wide variety of musical styles, from the rhumba-inflected "Mushnik and Son" to the I'm-on-Broadway ballads "Somewhere That's Green" and "Suddenly Seymour". The most spirited numbers are those that feature the trio of back-up singers, who perform on the title track "Skid Row", "Da-Doo", "The Meek Shall Inherit" and other numbers with considerable energy. The recording loses something if you haven't actually seen the stage production but hearing this CD will give you an excellent reason to do so. --Genevieve Williams
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A review by magoogy on The Little Shop Of Horrors (DVD) June 17th, 2007
Author's product rating:
Did you enjoy it?
Loved it
Story
Outstanding
Characters / Performances
Outstanding
Special Effects
Weak
How does it compare to similar films?
Outstanding
Advantages:
brilliant
Disadvantages:
black and white
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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this original version is by far the best - the actors are a lot better than the later version - you have;-
Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Myrtle Vail
this version is in black and white which for some reason makes it scarier than the updated version.
The basic plot is that a nerdy florist called seymour falls in love with audrey and names one of his plants (a venus flytrap) after her - he spends most of his day tending to the plant and singing to it and calls it audrey after his beloved. The plant develops a taste for human flesh and begins to eat people....seymour struggles to control his plant as it gets bigger and bigger and more out of control...
Advantages: Good story line Disadvantages: Relatively bad effects
...This musical is an story of 2 lovers one an shy "geeky" Seymour and the outgoing Audrey. However the feelings they have towards each other is brought to the surface by an dangerous money-making human eating plant. The plant, who Seymour named Audrey II, manipulates Seymour into doing things that are not like him.
This film is an definite must-see, with an great storyline and some good vocal performances by Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene. The plant and special effects looks very good, for the time of the movie. The littleshop of horrors is definitley worth £7 and i am a teenager and i think it is great. This film is both for lads and lasses aswell so don't be put off that it is a musical because the storyline is good....
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Advantages: A Cult Musical Classic Disadvantages: Not to everybodies taste.
...LITTLESHOP OF HORRORSLittleShop Of Horrors has become a cult movie, a little like Rocky Horror Picture Show, but it started back in 1960 as a very low budget B movie which took Roger Carman only two days to produce and starred a very young Jack Nicholson as a masochistic patient at the dentists.
It was in 1982 that Alan Menken and Howard Ashman got together and transformed the cult movie into a stage show. Keeping the humour of the show Menken wrote the music for it keeping it in the style of the late 50's and the early 60's. The zany lyrics were created by Howard Ashman who sadly passed away at the young age of 40 in 1992 whilst working on the Disney classic Aladdin, such a loss to the music industry.
Well over 2,000 stage performances later in 1984 the musicals producer David Geffen started to move forward in...
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Advantages: great comedy horror full of laughs Disadvantages: none
...This review is on the film only and not the dvd.
In this movie Johnathan Haze stars as a really clumsy florist assistant Seymour.
The movie starts with a musical called skidrow.
Seymour works in a Skidrow flower shop for his boss Mr Mushkins and as there is very little custom in the store Seymour is at risk of losing his job unless buisness pics up.
Seymour brings a strange man eating plant to the store to try and attract buisness and save his job.
When the store is closed he is seeing to the plant when he cuts his finger the plants mouth opens and blood drips into its mouth and from that moment the plant starts to grow rapidly.
Every night when the store is closed the plant demands to be fed so Seymour cuts his fingers and feeds it but when he runs out of fingers to cut he has to go on a killing spree in the streets...
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Plot: An offbeat horror classic about a Skid Row flower shop employee who creates a weird plant that feeds on human flesh. Jack Nicholson appears in his first film role as a dental patient who thrives on pain. Fully restored version.
King of the B's director Roger Corman shot this crazy beat-era classic in a mere two days, but it packs plenty of inspired lunacy and clever bits in its 70-minute running time. Jonathan Haze stars as clumsy assistant florist Seymour, who saves his job in Mr. Mushnik's skid-row flower shop when he brings in a unique man-eating plant. The problem is, it's a very hungry plant--every night it opens its huge jaws and demands to be fed, forcing poor Seymour to take to the street in search of victims lest he disappoint his boss and his adoring girlfriend Audrey (Jackie Joseph). From a zingy script by Charles Griffith, this hilarious black comedy overflows with great ideas and characters: Corman regular Dick Miller plays a hipster who eats flowers, and a very young Jack Nicholson takes a memorable turn as a masochistic dental patient. DRAGNET-style detective Joe Fink (Wally Campo) narrates as he slowly begins to track the killer down. This oft-revived favourite still generates plenty of laughs and chills, deserving of repeat viewings.
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Special Features: Interactive Menus
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Full Frame
Sound: Mono
Dubbing Sound: Mono English
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