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The Little Shop of Horrors

The Little Shop of Horrors

1960Movie⏱️ 1h 13mNot Rated
ComedyHorror
6.2
IMDB Rating
21,069 votes

A clumsy young man working at an impoverished flower shop discovers that the strange plant he has been nurturing has an insatiable appetite for blood, forcing him to kill to feed it.

Director
Roger Corman
Writers
Charles B. Griffith, Roger Corman
Stars
Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles
Release Date
August 5, 1960
Language
English
Country
United States
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🎭 Top Cast

Jonathan Haze
Jonathan Haze
as Seymour Krelborn
Jackie Joseph
Jackie Joseph
as Audry Fulquard
Mel Welles
Mel Welles
as Gravis Mushnik
Dick Miller
Dick Miller
as Ferson Fouch
Myrtle Vail
Myrtle Vail
as Winifred Krelborn
Karyn Kupcinet
Karyn Kupcinet
as Shirley
Toby Michaels
Toby Michaels
as Shirley's Friend
Leola Wendorff
Leola Wendorff
as Mrs. Shiva
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Lynn Storey
as Mrs. Hortense Feuchtwanger
Wally Campo
Wally Campo
as Sgt. Joe Fink

🎬 Technical Specs

Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Bunker Hill, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production
The Filmgroup, Santa Clara Productions

🏷️ Keywords

monstertalking plantfloristemployer employee relationshipclumsiness

🎯 Categories

B-HorrorDark ComedyFarceMonster HorrorComedyHorror

⭐ Featured Review

A surprisingly funny piece of b-movie entertainment from Corman
by bob the moo2005-07-25

"Mushnick's is a small florists in skid row – a dead end part of town that everyone knows about but nobody wants to know about. Business is not great, in fact it is awful – nobody wants to buy flowers when they can't be sure where their next meal is coming from. However the cleaning boy has nurtured a strange new plant up from seed and it seems to be getting interest. When he discovers it needs a few drops of blood to make it grow Seymour is the toast of the town with his employer very grateful for the increased revenue the visitors bring. However as it grows it begins to need more th..."

💡 Did You Know?

Howard R. Cohen learned from Charles B. Griffith that when the film was being edited, "there was a point where two scenes would not cut together. It was just a visual jolt, and it didn't work. And they needed something to bridge that moment. They found, in the editing room, a nice shot of the moon, they cut it in, and it worked. Twenty years go by. I'm at the studio one day. Chuck comes running up to me and says, 'You've got to see this!' It was a magazine article--eight pages on the symbolism of the moon in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)."

📖 Synopsis

A clumsy young man working at an impoverished flower shop discovers that the strange plant he has been nurturing has an insatiable appetite for blood, forcing him to kill to feed it.