The Little Shop of Horrors is perhaps one of Roger Corman's better directorial efforts in regards to his script choices and style of filmmaking. Unlike its 80's counterpart there's not a single musical number to be found. This movie is pure unadulterated B movie cheese. It's a film where every aspect is turned up to eleven, and every situation is played for laughs. The characters are all zany and outlandishly hyper, especially a young Jack Nicholson who pops up for a brief dentist appointment in one of his earliest and most bizarre roles.

The film plays out mostly in line with it's vastly more popular remake. Except the ending for this film is a lot better, and it fits in…

Why I watched this movie? The 140th Danny Peary Cult Movie that I have watched of the 200 listed in his 3 Volume book series. This one is listed in Volume 1.

What is this one about? A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it. This was remade 26 years later...with Rick Moranis playing the young man.

My thoughts on this one? This one has a claim to fame of being made in only 2 days (with some reshots later) by Roger Corman. First lets talk about the bad stuff....the acting by the lead actor (Jonathan Haze) is horrible.....when he is on the screen....it was like hearing fingernails on…

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The film begins with a scrolling illustration of Skid Row behind the titles, which looks rather groovy. It sets up the location with economy and style. We then enter Mushnik's Florist and are immediately introduced to the dire economic situation of operating a business in such a financially depressed neighbourhood. Within the first several minutes, Corman has sketched an allegory of his own production company operating on the margins of the film industry along poverty row.

Mushnik is the shrewd business man. He is loud, brash and constantly complaining about his bottom line. Seymour is the absent-minded creative. He is a a klutz and a mumma's boy with a deep-seated need for acceptance and love. Finally,…

I vaguely thought that Little Shop Of Horrors started as a Broadway musical before the subsequent making of the Rick Moranis film in the 80s. In fact it all started with this little Roger Corman flick from 1960, a B movie filmed over 2 days in the true Corman style.

If it is a horror-comedy, it's charms are very much with the comic. (The plant is not terribly scary!) You may wonder at the gags aimed at the shop keeper's ethnicity but it seemed innocent enough to me. And it is sharply written enough, as well as being winningly played by the main actors, to suck in its audience over the short run time.

It is broad but with wit,…

I really like musicals but sometimes musicals have a tendency to take the edge off some of the darkest works. It is that rare work that keeps it’s teeth when music is added to the story. I had seen the 1986 remake and found it to be too silly and teeth less as the years went on. Somehow I had never watched the original which after seeing it found that not only was it better then the remake, I also found the tale to be darker even if it is still wrapped up in the cloth of comedy.

So the story is pretty much the same from the remake, And if you think that I shouldn’t point that out then…

YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS GOING TO BE BAD...THINK AGAIN

It's Simply Amazing that such a No-Budget Movie could be so Rich in Rewards.

This is one of the most Famous B-Movies in History, as it Delivers an Entertainment that makes the Mind Boggles while it unfolds in all of its Goofy Glory.

The Script, with as much Wit as a Marx Brothers Movie, the Cast who all seem to be having a Hoot of a Time (especially Jack Nicholson), and not the least is Director Roger Corman Making the Most of all the Talent Blessing this Dark and Funny Farce.

Roger Corman is a Genius with an Eye for Talent and a Feel for the Zeitgeist of Cultural Significance, made…