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The funniest picture this year!
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
The Little Shop of Horrors
1960 Directed by Roger Corman
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La pequeña tienda de los horrores, La tiendita del horror, Ein kleiner Laden voller Horror
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not trying to be cute or anything but this would’ve been a really good episode of wizards of waverly place
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I don't know about you guys, but this film needed more singing....
On a serious note, spite of the fact that some of Griffith and Corman's films are of questionable quality, their partnership continues to deliver some masterpieces. Griffith takes a more bold approach this time, blending a variety of distinct comedies into a concoction that, for the most part, works really well. You have black comedy coupled with farce and elements of Jewish humour, as well as spoofs of horror and science fiction films, many of which were produced and written by this pair.
Jonathan Haze is excellent as Seymour, portraying both the pure and gullible element of the…
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"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 as it fits in…
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Look on him everybody. Look at the quality of his work.
A cheap and fast Corman flick in which a young Jack Nicholson proves once again that he always knew how to steal a movie.
Now, no novocaine, it dulls the senses
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"i guess' there's just no accounting for people's tastes." LOTS PLANTS CHEAP.
interesting to watch this right after a bucket of blood and see how much of the DNA of that is in here. i think it's a tad less personal and cynical than that film was for corman (and dick miller is a much stronger actor than the lead here, with a sadder more disturbing character arc) but this is still a pretty comically gruesome affair with some really solid gags. griffith's voice acting for the plant especially is hilarious. surprise jack nicholson appearance as well, almost steals the entire movie.
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"It's monstrousatous" -Audrey,
The Jack Nicholson part is fantastic.
I don't know. It's hard to evaluate this when I've seen the musical, which is far better. Every time there was a lull in the action, and there are a lot, the song Suddenly Seymour would pop into my head and I'd drift away. This is slow paced, even at 72 minutes, and really dragged for me.
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I find comedies from this era, especially ones as low budget as this, to be very hit and miss with their humor. Partly due to my sense of humor and the other part due to it feeing a little tacky. Roger Corman manages to deliver the laughs! The horror elements are just a bonus. At just over 70 minutes, the story zips by. Get in and get out seemed to be Corman’s motto. I enjoyed that there was almost an episodic approach to the plot. The dentist scene featuring a young, and crazy (shocking!), Jack Nicholson was great. I kept thinking the horror aspects were too subdued, but it’s actually a pretty solid blend. The Little Shop of Horrors stands apart from its bold and musical remake from the 80s. It would definitely play well in a theater setting with a crowd, but an audience of one in my case worked out fine.
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8/10
Shoutout to @classicreviews for the request.
The Little Shop Of Horrors is basically a retelling of A Bucket of Blood. This time, Roger Corman rips himself off.
Some of the jokes here fall flat, especially in the first twenty minutes of the movie. Gravis and Seymour's mother were yelling all of their lines, and it was annoying. Once it goes past the twenty minute mark, the jokes get good, and Gravis and Seymour's mother aren't yelling as much anymore.
The funniest scene is when Seymour visits the psychopathic dentist. And the scene after that, where Jack Nicholson makes an appearance, is pretty fucking funny as well.
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Just a wee crumb of a movie. More of a light hearted Twilight Zone episode, really. Not bad for being hustled together on the fly. Hard to really know what we would all think of this if we'd seen it before the beloved remake, but I can say that the faces in the blooms are a bit that should've survived. That's the good horror comedy shit, right there.
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Wow...I couldn't believe how offbeat and engaging this movie was. I've been passing over it for 40 years.
This was the original (non-musical) version of the story about timid Seymour Krelborn, his tyranical Borscht-Belt boss, Gravis Mushnik, and the sweetest girl in town, Audrey.
Oh, and a mutant man-eating plant, affectionately named Audrey, Jr.
Yeah, this black comedy is totally out of left field, folks. Roger Corman directed it, according to legend, in two days and for approximately 30,000 bucks. This was part two of Corman's (and screenwriter Charles B. Griffin's) "beatnik" double feature....the other being A Bucket of Blood.
I thought for sure the film was set in The Bowery/Skid Row of NYC because there's so many Yiddish vibes,…
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The Little Shop of Horrors is a decent B movie with an interesting plot and a great early performance from Jack Nicholson, but it's vaguely anti-semitic and not nearly as good as the musical it inspired.
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