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Perhaps the greatest movie ever shot in two days, Little Shop of Horrors was originally conceived as a followup to Roger Corman's black comedy A Bucket of Blood (1959). Jonathan Haze plays Seymour Krelboin, a schlemiel's schlemiel who works at the Skid Row flower shop of Mr. Mushnick (Mel Welles). Experimenting in his spare time, Seymour develops a new plant species that he hopes will lead him to fame and fortune. Unfortunately, the mutated plant — named Audrey Junior, in honor of Seymour's girlfriend Audrey (Jackie Joseph) — subsists on blood and human flesh. It also talks, or rather, commands: "Feed Me! FEEEEED ME!" Before long, the luckless Seymour has fed his plant the bodies of a railroad detective, a sadistic dentist, and a flashy trollop. Meanwhile, Mr. Mushnik, who has stumbled onto Seymour's secret, has inadvertently offered up a burglar (played by Charles Griffith, who also wrote the script and supplied the plant's voice) as a midnight snack for the voracious, ever-growing Audrey Junior. (When the plant blooms, the faces of its various victims are reproduced in its flowers.) Ignored on its initial release, Little Shop of Horrors began building up a cult following via repeated TV exposure in the 1960s. By the mid-1970s, it had attained classic status, spawning a big-budget Broadway musical (and followup feature film) in the 1980s and a Saturday morning cartoon series in the 1990s. Enhancing the original Little Shop's reputation was the brief appearance by star-in-the-making Jack Nicholson as a masochistic dental patient (Nicholson is often incorrectly referred to as the star of the film, though in fact he barely receives billing). Much as we love Nicholson, our vote for the most memorable Little Shop cast member goes to the ubiquitous Dick Miller ("No thanks, I'll eat it here"). — Hal Erickson

Roger Corman is a man with a Midas touch — that's the only way to explain Little Shop of Horrors, a 1960 ultra-low budget horror movie/detective film satire that yielded a hit off-Broadway musical and a multi-million-dollar film version more than 20 years later. Corman had carved a niche for himself on Hollywood's Poverty Row as a producer-director of low-budget horror movies, mostly in association with American-International Pictures, which also specialized in teen exploitation titles, of which Corman did a few as well (Teenage Caveman, etc.). By 1960, the cycle had run its course, and one of the products was Little Shop of Horrors, which satirized the teen horror exploitation film, as well as various other elements of popular culture. Jonathan Haze's Seymour Krelboin is a delightful satire of the kind of nebbishy hero that Jerry Lewis was making millions out of playing at the time, and the two cops hunting for the "skid row killer" were a dig at Jack Webb's then-popular police shows and movies, most notably Dragnet. Corman's secret was to play it all — the comedy, the cop sequences, the sight gags — even more deadpan than Webb's work, so that the jokes were in the past once people tried to figure out what they had just seen. This was a style of comedy later perfected by the makers of Airplane and Police Squad and its offshoot, The Naked Gun movies, but Little Shop of Horrors is where it started; the ethnic jokes alone are a foot deep, and they slide past so fast that one has to watch the movie more than once just to catch them. It was a style of comedy that no one had done for movies before, and it took the rest of Hollywood 20 years to catch up — just about the time that kids who knew Little Shop of Horrors were starting to make movies themselves. — Bruce Eder

Cast

Jonathan Haze  - Seymour Krelboin
Jackie Joseph  - Audrey
Mel Welles  - Gravis Mushnik
Myrtle Vail  - Winifred Krelboin
Laiola Wendorff  - Mrs. Shiva
Jack Nicholson  - Wilbur Force
Ernst R. von Theumer  - Gravis Mushnick
Toby Michaels   
Marie Windsor   
Wally Campo   

Similar Movies
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 The Spider Woman Strikes Back  (1946, Arthur Lubin)
 Little Otik  (2000, Jan Svankmajer)
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Movies with the Same Personnel
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 The Raven  (1963, Roger Corman)
 The Undead  (1957, Roger Corman)
 It Conquered the World  (1956, Roger Corman)
 Not of This Earth  (1957, Roger Corman)
 Frankenstein Unbound  (1990, Roger Corman)
 The Premature Burial  (1962, Roger Corman)
 
Other Related Movies
 has been remade as:   Little Shop of Horrors  (1986, Frank Oz)
 is related to:   A Bucket of Blood  (1959, Roger Corman)
   Creature from the Haunted Sea  (1961, Roger Corman, Monte Hellman)

Tormented DVD

In this low-budget, campy horror film, a murderous pianist pays for his crime when body parts from the lover he pushed from a lighthouse come back to haunt him just before he is to marry a prominent socialite. — Sandra Brennan

Jazz pianist Tom Stewart (Richard Carlson) tries to break it off with his lover, a desperate, brassy barroom singer named Vi (Julie Reding). She is incensed at being ditched in favor of Tom's wealthy young fiancée, and threatens to tell all about their affair in hopes of derailing the wedding. Their emotional quarrel takes place in the tower of an abandoned lighthouse, and when the railing breaks and Vi is hanging on for dear life, Tom consciously withdraws his helping hand, and she plummets to the sea. Though he reasons to himself that he did not actually take her life, Tom is aware of his part in her death, and he tries to ignore the guilt. But Vi's ghost will not rest, and is intent on making herself heard; not only that, but a blackmailing beatnik knows too much for Tom to let him live. Tormented is a fine B-grade chiller that overcomes some hokey effects and budgetary blemishes to tell a fun, fast-paced tale of morality and mayhem. Richard Carlson is a little old for his intended bride (he appears to be sucking in his gut through most of the picture), and his wooden expression never changes, whether he's practicing the piano or stuffing his dead girlfriend's disembodied head into a bag. His character is such a crumb that there's great satisfaction in watching his life fall apart, and the audience is sure to root for the ghostly Vi and cheer on her supernatural pranks. Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans will know Tormented already (see episode #414), though there's certainly other films far more deserving of their sarcasm, and director Bert I. Gordon is himself responsible for a bushelful. Tormented can be found unmolested as a special feature of the Monsters Crash the Pajama Party: Spook Show Spectacular DVD. — Fred Beldin

Cast

Lugene Sanders  - Meg
Richard Carlson  - Tom Stewart
Joe Turkel  - Nick
Merritt Stone  - Clergyman
George Stanley   
Harry Fleer  - Father
Susan Gordon  - Sandy
Lillian Adams  - Real Estate Broker
Gene Roth [Stutenroth]  - Lunch Stand Operator
Julie Reding  - Vi Mason
Vera Marsh   

Similar Movies
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 Night of the Ghouls  (1959, Edward D. Wood, Jr.)
 The Tell-Tale Heart  (2000, Scott Mansfield)
 
Movies with the Same Personnel
 Picture Mommy Dead  (1966, Bert I. Gordon)
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 Satan's Princess  (1990, Bert I. Gordon)
 The Amazing Colossal Man  (1957, Bert I. Gordon)
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