First of all I gotta say, I have a backstory with the little shop of horrors. Before I even knew about an old man named Roger Corman and before I knew anything about any of the movies I played a little kid in our school musical version of the Little Shop of Horrors.
Then I learned about the musical movie starring Rick Moranis and I loved it. And around 7 or 8 years later I learned about this version.
Today I finally got to watch it.
It's about a small flower shop owned by Mr Mushnik (Mel Welles). He has two employees, Audrey (Jackie Joseph) and Seymour (Jonathan Haze). Seymour is a loser, he is poor and always stumbling over everything. But then he grows a new plant that is beautiful, everyone wants to see it. People are coming to the shop to see the plant called Audrey Junior. But Audrey junior and her creator Seymour have a dark secret. Audrey Junior needs blood...
This is really not a horror movie. It's not scary at all. And I wonder if it was scary in the 60s when it came out but I don't think so.
Mostly it's a comedy. And in that it is great. A really dark comedy. I had so much fun watching this movie. It has so many crazy people. For example the guy who eats flowers. Or the sadistic dentist. Or Jack Nicholson, who is crazy even without playing. In this movie he is a masochist who goes to the sadistic dentist. (In the remake that character is played by Bill Murray).
This movie is produced and directed by Roger Corman, one of the most important people in Hollywood. According to IMDB he produced 410 movies in his life.
And he directed this movie in two days. And even though it has basically no budget and was directed in 2 days (after being written in around 2 days, too) it is a cultfilm and really funny.
I enjoyed it and give it 3.5 ouf ot 5 stars.
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