Pre-Halloween Horror-watching #8: Little Shop of Horrors

[xannoside]

Little Shop of Horrors
Genre: SF/Horror Musical
Director: Frank Oz, 1986
Songs by: Alan Menken
Starring: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, and a huge cast of SNL Alums
TL;DR: Okay, okay, not strictly speaking a horror film, not even a horror musical really, but the space-born mutant plants eating people would seem to be close enough.  The puppetry is jaw-

Comments

[ivy03]

There is a horror film that this is based on, FYI. It stars Jack Nicholas. Okay, not stars exactly, but he's in it.

I'm not so much a fan of this movie cause I like the stage version a whole lot better. (I went through a phase of listening to every Broadway musical recording in my hih school's library, so I learned this musical, and many others, by album first.) I even saw chuckro as Audrey II in a production of this in college! Well, saw is overstating it. He did do the curtain call.

[xannoside]

I've heard that the original isn't so much a horror film either. More of a straight comedy than anything else.

[ivy03]

More in the classic fifties B-movie genre, like Day of the Triffids. (Which, if it's not on your list should be.)

[xannoside]

I am unfortunately limited to Netflix streaming/DVDs and Day of the Triffids is currently unavailable for some reason.

[jethrien]

You have a talent for causing pain!

[ivy03]

Son be a de-entist. People will pay you to be inhumane!