The Little Shop of Horrors
Directed by Roger Corman
Written by Charles B. Griffith
1960/USA
The Film Group
Repeat viewing/Amazon Prime
[box] [repeated line] Audrey Jr.: Feed me![/box]
This Roger Corman comedy is a kick in the butt! Topped only by the 1986 musical version of the story.
Gravis Mushnik runs a florist shop on Skid Row. Needless to say business is bad but he offers employment to two people – sales girl Audrey and hapless delivery boy Seymour Krelboyne. Seymour is under constant threat of termination. He tries to redeem himself with a plant he has developed in the apartment he shares with his hilariously drunken hypocondriac mother.
Seymour is in love with Audrey and names his plant Audrey Jr. The plant is sickly and unimpressive until Seymour accidentally discovers that it thrives on fresh human blood … With Jack Nicholson in a cameo as a masochistic dental patient.
The jokes are most lame but they come so fast and the plant is so awesome that you don’t mind in the least. This held up really well to a second viewing and could probably withstand several more. Recommended to fans of this type of thing.
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