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The Little Shop of Horrors

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The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
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A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.
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    • Roger Corman
    • Charles B. Griffith(screenplay)
    • Roger Corman(co-writer)
  • Stars
    • Jonathan Haze
    • Jackie Joseph
    • Mel Welles
    • Roger Corman
    • Charles B. Griffith(screenplay)
    • Roger Corman(co-writer)
  • Stars
    • Jonathan Haze
    • Jackie Joseph
    • Mel Welles
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    • 156User reviews
    • 73Critic reviews
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    Mel Welles, Charles B. Griffith, Jonathan Haze, and Jackie Joseph in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
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    Jonathan Haze
    Jonathan Haze
    • Seymour Krelborn
    Jackie Joseph
    Jackie Joseph
    • Audrey Fulquard
    Mel Welles
    Mel Welles
    • Gravis Mushnick
    Dick Miller
    Dick Miller
    • Fouch
    Myrtle Vail
    Myrtle Vail
    • Winifred Krelborn
    Karyn Kupcinet
    Karyn Kupcinet
    • Shirley
    • (as Tammy Windsor)
    Toby Michaels
    Toby Michaels
    • Shirley's Friend
    Leola Wendorff
    Leola Wendorff
    • Mrs. Shiva
    Lynn Storey
    • Mrs. Hortense Feuchtwanger
    Wally Campo
    Wally Campo
    • Sgt. Joe Fink…
    Jack Warford
    Jack Warford
    • Detective Frank Stoolie
    Meri Welles
    Meri Welles
    • Leonora Clyde
    • (as Merri Welles)
    John Herman Shaner
    • Dr. Phoebus Farb
    • (as John Shaner)
    Jack Nicholson
    Jack Nicholson
    • Wilbur Force
    Dodie Drake
    • Waitress
    Robert Coogan
    Robert Coogan
    • Tramp
    • (uncredited)
    Jack Griffin
    Jack Griffin
    • Drunk
    • (uncredited)
    Charles B. Griffith
    Charles B. Griffith
    • Kloy Haddock - Hold-up Man
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • …
      • Roger Corman
      • Charles B. Griffith(screenplay)
      • Roger Corman(co-writer) (uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      Made in 2½ days on a budget of $22,500.
    • Goofs
      Mel Welles's character name is spelled as "Mushnik" in the end credits, but appears as "Mushnick" on the sign outside his shop.
    • Quotes

      Fouch: Besides, I've got to get home. My wife's making gardenias for dinner.

    • Alternate versions
      The Filmgroup Inc. opening logo is cut from some prints.
    • Connections
      Featured in Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel (1978)
    • Soundtracks
      Auld Lang Syne
      (1788) (uncredited)

      Traditional Scottish ballad

      Words by Robert Burns

      Sung off-screen and a cappella by Jonathan Haze

    User reviews156

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    7/10
    One of Corman's first is still one of his best
    The first version of The Little Shop of Horrors, long before the Broadway musical and Frank Oz's musical/horror/comedy, is one of the primary examples of shoe-string movie-making. Shoe-string, of course, refers mostly to the budget, and this possibly ranks above others like Clerks, Slacker, Night of the Living Dead and Blair Witch in order to put it together so quickly. And yet for all of its little slip-ups and deranged moments of comedy, it does work for what its worth. Not that it doesn't show that the film was made in two days, but on those terms of extremely low-budget, go-for-broke B-movie-making, Roger Corman as a director has quite a nifty effort here. The story is similar to a fairy-tale (a darkly comic one to be sure, like one of the Fractures Fairy tales from the old Rocky & Bullwinkle show), in how Seymour (Jonathan Haze, perfect as an awkward, easily shockable little guy) tries to nurture a plant to earn the affections of Audrey (Jackie Joseph). But then the plant turns into a meat-eater, to put it that way, and from there Charles Griffith's script goes into wild comic turns where he now has to figure out how to take care of the plant before it 'takes care' of him. Some scenes are less notable than others, and sometimes the cheesiness of it all (just look at the plant itself for proof enough) can be wearisome. But Corman keeps the atmosphere with a giddy amount of late 50s 'shlock', and some scenes stand the test of time as the best of their B-movie status. Tops go to the 2nd film appearance from Nicholson as the most psychotic of the bunch, as a 'chipper' fetishist who gets off on getting his wretched teeth worked on- it's a masterpiece of a scene with cartoonish action, innuendo and crazy looks from a 23 year old Nicholson. Worth checking out, maybe more than once, and you're likely to find it (appropriately) in the cheapest lot of DVDs and videos at your local store.
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    • Release date
      • August 5, 1960 (United States)
      • United States
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      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Bunker Hill, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • The Filmgroup
      • Santa Clara Productions
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    • 1 hour 12 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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