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The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Roger Corman and Charles B. Griffith and produced by Roger Corman.

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THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) On Blu-ray From Film Masters

By Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 13, 2024 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

The Film Masters Blu-ray release of THE TERROR (1963) contains a second disc with another famed public domain cult film: the original THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. The production history of the original LITTLE SHOP has become a film geek legend. Roger Corman's ultra-cheap, ultra-quick black comedy mig... Read full article


[BASP] The Little Shop of Horrors (1960, Roger Corman) / Please Don&’t Eat My Mother (1973, Carl Monson)

By Andrew Wickliffe on May 9, 2016 From The Stop Button

The Best of An Alan Smithee Podcast: Episode Twenty-two The Little Shop of Horrors (1960, Roger Corman) / Please Don&’t Eat My Mother (1973, Carl Monson) Originally posted: January 3, 2013 Subscribe via iTunes.... Read full article


The Little Shop of Horrors (1960, Roger Corman)

on Aug 28, 2013 From The Stop Button

The filmmaking economy in The Little Shop of Horrors is astounding. Most of the film takes place in one set–the titular shop–and Charles B. Griffith’s script works hard to imply the world outside that set. My favorite bit in the script is probably when leading man Jonathan Haze is ... Read full article


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Seymour Krelboin: I didn't mean it.
Gravis Mushnik: You didn't mean it. You never mean it. You didn't mean the time when you put up the bouquet with the 'get well' card in the funeral parlor, and sent the black lilies to that old lady in the hospital. You're fired and this time, I, Gravis Mushnik, mean it!
Burson Fouch: [to Seymour] I think he means it.


Burson Fouch: Anyway, I've got to go home. My wife's making gardenias for dinner.


Burson Fouch: I remember in one flower shop there was a whole wall covered with poison ivy. People came from miles around to look at that wall and they stayed to buy.
Gravis Mushnik: And the owner got rich?
Burson Fouch: No, he scratched himself to death in an insane asylum.


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Charles B. Griffith not only wrote most of the screenplay, he also stars uncredited as several characters; among them: the screaming dental patient that runs out of Dr. Farb's office, the burglar that breaks into the flower shop, and even the voice of Audrey Jr.
The film was originally released on a double feature with Mario Bava's La maschera del demonio and later on a double bill with Last Woman on Earth.
Dick Miller was originally offered the role of Seymour Krelboin but he declined it in favor of the flower-eating Mr. Fouch instead.
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