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Gonna tell my grandkids this is skibidi toilet #monsterdon

dating in 1960:

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The magazine in the dentist's office waiting room is "Pain".

Wow Jack Nicholson.
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seymour is really missing what just landed in his lap, instead of killing people, you can just link up with the BDSM scene via young jack nicholson and connect the people who would love to have their blood sucked by a plant with plants that love sucking blood #monsterdon

Dear #monsterdon . . .

Just a note to say that as a non-participant, I love to see my tl flooded with your output.

Enjoy the film! I haven't seen it for prolly 5 decades, but I did think it was funny and strange and even a little scary. The blooms got to me.

Community is resistance, so keep up the good work!

#Monsterdon Well, that's not a terrible film, but you can really tell that it was super low budget and rushed.

Apparently, Corman had two days before he had to tear down the sets for his previous movie, so he figured why waste those two days, and he filmed this movie during those two days.

I'll bet there was a bunch of improvising on set.

THAT ROCKS. THAT IS THE BEST ENDING. YOU COULD HAVE. AN ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE LAST 5.
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What...

And I cannot emphasize this enough...

The fuck?

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But otherwise, Seymour has fucked off into the plant and that's a wrap for #monsterdon proper this week! Goodnight and thanks to @Taweret for hosting, and for everyone new to the Fediverse this week... welcome! We have fun here. :3

I award Little Shop of Horrors (1960) 5 out of 5 spooky murdered face flowers, purely on the strength of how fucked up and weird it was.

Almost every sequence of dialog was baffling. Also, it was sort of a greek tragedy, just with a killer plant, and the flaw was a hunger for money and adoration? It managed to be both completely disturbed but also completely cheerful and not scary about how disturbed it was.

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All these moments will be lost in time
Like rain
On rhubarb

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That abrupt ending concussed me.

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Shooting in two days, there had to be some issues with editing. One quick-fix was to place a shot of the moon between two disparate scenes.

🌔 20 years later, the writer came across an 8-page magazine article on the symbolism of the moon in #LittleShopOfHorrors1960.

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young jack nicholson is back but this time he is *extremely jack nicholson" #monsterdon

Honestly this move is kind of too coherent for #Monsterdon

I guess when you only shoot for two days there isn't enough time to forget what's supposed to be going on

if you are a flower shop whose business depends on one carnivorous sentient plant, you should quickly try and pivot away from said carnivorous sentient plant to one of the many other prestige plants as soon as you have in influx of capital #monsterdon

It's incredible that someone in this movie is more Jack Nicholson than Jack Nicholson is

Edit: oh wait I got confused. The character that I thought was out-Jack Nicholasing Jack Nicholas is just Jack Nicholas.

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i don’t like this plant. i’ve never liked this plant. i don’t like vampires and i don’t like audrey jr.

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Audrey is so loving and optimistic.

I'm sure that will pay off for her later.

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@Taweret if the musical is what is happening on https://miru.miyaku.media/ i got the vibe completely wrong and feel ashamed for never having seen it because this intro rules #monsterdon

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Despite a disappointing ending, this movie has a surprising legacy

Low budget movie (1960) to
Stage musical (1982) to
filmed musical Little Shop of Horrors (1986) to
animated kids' series Little Shop (1991) and finally to
a three-issue comic book series (1995)

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Don't fuss over casting

Little Shop pay rates set by Charles Griffith and Mel Welles

5 cents each for children to run out of the subway tunnel

10 cents for winos to act like winos. Other transients were paid a little more to act as production assistants

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so there was no romantic conflict at all, she was always ready to go ahead and get 60's married after 1 date, he just didn't ask #monsterdon

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Why the wacky names?

In the 1950's there was a trend of people sueing studios for using their names.

That's how the disclaimer that is something like this appears in front of movies now.
"All events, characters, firms and institutions in this photoplay....are coincidental and unintentional."

But the scriptwriter had some fun with the names, obv.

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This is so. Bizarre!

Why did they write an uber-masochist patient! For what?

Why is Seymour pretending to be a dentist AND drilling random teeth holes? Surely that's not the best path. Just leave or hide?

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is the main little shop of horrors like that???? does it end abruptly, no sense having been made, hiding amongst the toilet yard and then sacrificing yourself to become a face on the plant?????? #monsterdon

you only incriminate yourself by running, you could have just stayed there and been like "holy crap that plant can talk" #monsterdon

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SquintVision

Corman did not spend much time lighting these scenes. He set up two cameras at different angles to run at the same time. Similar to sitcoms today. Retakes were rare.

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All the...buds...depict the faces of the humans eaten by the plant?

How does it know what part to depict? What if you only fed it, like, a limb?

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"Now the float will be perfect!"

The real monsters were the creepy high school girls we met along the way the way.

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Did Dick Miller actually eat real flowers during the movie? Yes!

And he ate them during public movie promotions to prove it.

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if you are a flower shop whose business depends on one carnivorous sentient plant, you should not become that plant's enemy by being the one who denies it food and should instead invest in some orchids as soon as possible #monsterdon

@nev Absolute "This is a guy who will go on to give an iconic performance as The Joker" vibes.

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It breaks my brain that the plant is named Audrey Jr. in the original. Audrey II is a MUCH better name.

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Well! That was more amusing than I remembered. Thanks @Taweret and #Monsterdon for another fun watch! I'm gonna go have a caesarian salad and wash it down with Dr. Hooch's Vim and Vigor Tonic.

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That's a wreck!

At least later work would polish this into a proper story and even out the presentation.

If you haven't seen the musical but you sat through this, you owe it to yourself to see the musical.

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The ladies decided that they wouldn't give Seymour an award because the flowers haven't opened yet. Then the flowers open and they all have the faces of the murdered people inside it. Seymour runs away, and the cops chase him.

The ladies who need flowers for their float walk up to the plant, look at the MURDERED FACES and say "Oh now the float will be perfect!"

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#Monsterdon It sure is easy to accidentally murder someone in this town.

#Monsterdon Ah, a hypnotism gag.

Perfect for when the writer can't think of a motivation for the characters and the script is due tomorrow.

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Why shoot in two days? On a bet is the popular story, but the smart money is on industry changes.

On January 1, 1960, just days after shooting, industry rules would change disallowing producers like Corman from "buying out" an actor's performance in perpetuity. That was important to his B-movie business model. He had to change his model the next year.

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What if instead of Capitalism we just had giant man eating plants we had to feed?

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does Audrey barf up the clothes in manky pellets the way owls do with bones and feathers?
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Jack Nicholson AGAIN. How many Monsterdon films is he in!

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i think you can get blood from just like a butcher #monsterdon

@_L1vY_ I thought that was true of the guy smashed by the train, right? It was just hands and limbs and stuff.

But Audrey Jr can sequence DNA, run a simulation, and calculate how they would appear in order to display their face.
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Anyway, this concludes this #monsterdon thread. Umm... remember not to murder people to feed your murder plant I guess? The adoration from hot girls and the money to buy your fancy dinners isn't worth it?

I think that's what we were going for?

Anyway thanks to @Taweret for hosting this, um, floral tragedy I guess?

There was a lot of fun dialog.

...also I just realized, Seymour fucked off into Audrey Jr

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All's well that ends ... with a guy getting turned into a blossom of the carnivorous plant he's been feeding other people to for the last hour

Thanks for the #Monsterdon , everyone!

WHAT, now he's a talking plant bud??

Did Corman run out of funds, what happened here? I feel tossed off a cliff. What is happening. 😂

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@Taweret Thanks @Taweret and the whole #monsterdon gang for pulling us through this Coreman masterpiece!

what are they even DOING with this toilet yard escape scene #monsterdon

before the puritanical swing of the 1970's that outlawed sex work, sex workers were ultrapowerful gangsters that got their money by preying on the helpless, unsuspecting johns #monsterdon

Seriously love how much this guy is carrying on with the "eating the carnations" gag every single time he's on camera

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They lost their best rail detective, he was watching the refrigerator cars…

"Refrigerator cars?"

"Ice thieves."

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So much acting is happening. Big big acting.
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I think I'm enjoying this movie because none of the character interactions are what you would expect. Every conversation is like a stream of shitposts that the characters take very seriously.

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Did she say ... did she say "isn't it empirical"?

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so the little kids xylophone is to a Roger Corman “comedy” what a theremin is to Roger Corman horror movie?

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Launching my #monsterdon thread for the Little Shop of Horrors (1960), a movie where I think a plant eats people?
Probably most movies with plants eating people are valid monsterdon fare.

Monsterdon is the thing where we watch an old monster movie every week and make fun of it. If you are not interested in seeing thousands of posts about that, you might want to mute the tag (or just mute me for the next hour). If not, feel free to join us?

#Monsterdon So, which character is represented by the gentleman on the poster?

@paco a classic of the genre for monsterdon endings. No Sea, but abrupt, like a car accident!

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At least it wasn’t a total eclipse of the heart, which would be even more baffling.

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That had its moments but I still think we have yet to see anything from Corman that has come close to topping the Crab Monsters. Thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting. Have a great week Beautiful Mutants! #Monsterdon #LittleShopOfHorrors

That should've been Corman's face saying that

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@JoeWynne Great little trick. And when we watch films we tend to think of what we see as it relates to the story, not the physical act of making the film. #monsterdon

Skibidi toilet

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@allanb I'm going with "Always Ignore Plants When They Tell You to Murder People" I think that's both good advice and a solid moral. #monsterdon

deux ex machina except it's a super powerful impenetrable wall of children #monsterdon

so is seymour mind controlled now??? when did they introduce the plant spore mind control that is making him a vessel for audrey jr's needs #monsterdon

seymour you're blowing it all you had to do was be normal for one date and you'd be 60's married no problem #monsterdon

So this is what we call today, 'kink'

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In this #Monsterdon I am having enjoyment of silly performance of flower man Mr. Mushkin

Isn't it empirical 😂

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can't tell if jazz quietly happening in the background is supposed to be in the movie or i left a tab open #monsterdon

i have never seen the main little shop of horrors because it was sandwiched in between two of the cliques i have been in, high school theatre crowd where it appeared extremely cringe, and among the queers where it is tacitly beloved. so i guess this is my way back into seeing it through #monsterdon

LOL Jack Nicholson is in this? that’s now 2 in (almost) a row

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1986 has too much continuity. Where are the random, bizarre throw-away ideas?
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@ricci Yes:
All's well that ends.
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"Hey you, urchins!"

We have Social Commentary Sign!

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@Zerofactorial lol, gotta love that energy "Aww fuck it, main character just walks into the plant and dies, NEXT!"

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wow ok... that's done.

I've never thought I was good at writing fiction and as a result would never come close to writing for a movie.

This movie gives me hope there is, or more likely was, a place for bad writing out there.

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Depeche Commode

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And the movie ends as it began.

In the toilet. #Monsterdon

This movie is actually a cautionary tale about the dangers of rock-throwing

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world's goofiest serial killer #monsterdon

I don't think sex workers need to lure men in like venus flytraps, that's just what men say to their wives

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who is seymour even protecting by pretending to be the plant, like if they just told everyone that audrey jr was a carnivorous sentient plant and the only person it ate was that one robber guy then everyone would be like "holy shit a giant carnivorous sentient plant" and you'd get even more people coming in to see it and then you could figure out a way to get it meat #monsterdon

I knew Chopping Mall had a lot of references to Corman movies, but I didn’t know the cook in Chopping Mall was played by Mel Welles, who played Gravis Mushnik in The Little Shop of Horrors.

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Back at the cursed flower shop, Shop Owner is taking a nap, then the plant wakes him up by shouting "Feed Me!". Shop Owner, being unwilling to (directly) murder anyone yells back at the plant, who says it wants to eat him because he looks chonky. Then shop owner goes back to sleep.

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#Monsterdon I need to work "a finger of speech" into conversation sometime.

A toothache, huh? Gonna need to see a dentist about that.

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I like this waitress' attitude

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@msh Gremlins also breed rather quickly and do bleed. The plant needs blood.

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Weird coincidence that the boss’s name is Mr. Milchick
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ok so showing up 8 minutes late is actually like 50% of the way through a movie when it's 70m long, so we we pro or anti seymour #monsterdon

"No thanks, I'll eat 'em here"

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