The Little Shop of Horrors

  • Horror
  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
8/5/1960
72
NR

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.

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  • Wuchak

    RELEASED IN 1960 and directed by Roger Corman, Little Shop of Horrors stars Jonathan Haze as Seymour, a klutzy worker at a Los Angeles Skid Row florist shop. On the verge of getting fired by the owner (Mel Welles), the young man brings his weird hybrid plant to the store to spur business. Unbeknownst to Seymour, it requires flesh & blood to grow and live. Jackie Joseph plays the other worker at the shop and Seymours potential girlfriend. A very young Jack Nicholson appears as a patient at a dentist office for about 8 minutes.

    Back when this was released Im sure the black humor was almost scandalous (e.g. Seymour feeding body parts to the ravenous plant), but Corman got away with it because its such an inane, quirky comedy. A lot of ...

    February 20, 2018

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