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.
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.
#Monsterdon I need to work "a finger of speech" into conversation sometime.
A toothache, huh? Gonna need to see a dentist about that.
I like this waitress' attitude
@msh Gremlins also breed rather quickly and do bleed. The plant needs blood.
Weird coincidence that the boss’s name is Mr. Milchick
#monsterdon #severance
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
#monsterdon "I'll eat them here" and here we go. He actually ate them. It was a gag on the set, nobody expected this.
"No thanks, I'll eat 'em here"
#monsterdon PS - After careful consideration, I'm pretty sure the anime/manga Pet Shop of Horrors can be read as a prequel to this movie, where
Seymour got the plant from the bishounen curator of the anime/manga shop, as the premise of that shop is the item gives you what you want but also tragically consumes you.
@strangefour I like that's Mushnik's standard operating procedure is 'ACAB' #Monsterdon
Moranis looks like a Muppet
#monsterdon I love me some Rick Moranis and Steve Martin, but, no, no reason to see the musical having seen the real thing. This gem is perfection. It's the "Clerks" of horror-camp. "Improving" it would only detract.
@springdiesel I am not totally sure, but I think he was trying to stop the cops from pursuing him successfully, maybe because he had some sympathy for Seymour because he himself was involved with the plant murders?
So what, the World just pretends plants don't absorb live humans and torment them for weeks, slowly digesting them while they are still somewhat conscious?
Young Jack Nicholson?!
oh well, that wasn't as bad as I expected and Young Jack Nicholson was easily the most terrifying thing in that movie
#monsterdon Such a treat! Thank you all!
Idiot, just walks into the plant and dies
Betty & Veronica don't care about murders. They just want a nice float.
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tbf a horde of children at night is pretty creepy....
Don't feed hookers to your carnivorous plant you misogynist!
here Seymour goes killing again
@diazona early in relationships you tend to ignore the big warning signs, like a giant talking carnivorous plant #Monsterdon
@SRLevine Having a formal meeting of the parents is a big step, yeah, but I think this is more like inviting her over for dinner and his mom just happens to be there because they live together
Though to be fair Audrey doesn't seem too concerned about following relationship norms
Audrey II says NO TO GUNS
It sounds more urgent counting backwards. #monsterdon
Forget it Fink, it's Skid Row Town.
it's shut the fuck up friday guys
Why do the ladies get SO horny for man who creates an abomination of nature?
lol, just love how everyone at the time immediately starts smoking when they enter into a conversation with a work colleague....
okay, the magazine just called "PAIN" is funny
lol, Jack Nicholson as terrifying as I expected him to be, somebody grab a gif of him reading that magazine!
Suddenly, swashbuckling!
it's yesnocane not novocane
Ohhhhh now comes the dentist part.
@starkraving666 ok then a followup i would have is "why is she going out to dinner with her boss" but i guess it was the 60s and women just had to do whatever #monsterdon
"I'm just going to walk in the train yard, do some thinkin'......maybe accidentally kill a drunk"
In Arabic?
Guy just sitting there eating his flowers in the background of every shot is just wonderfully unhinged
eeeeeeek i hate the sound of dentist drills
#monsterdon All ready and chugging away… picked up a funny little bit of trivia on IMDB for this one. Apparently the nod to “a cranberry bog” for the source of Audrey 2 was an in-joke in 1960 because there was a cranberry pesticide disaster in 1959 which set everyone off cranberries…
Steve Martin as the dentist is one of the best casting decisions ever.
Wonderful, weird stuff
@blue @jonny That is the future I always hoped for Audrey Jr! I need to finally watch the musical. #Monsterdon
@ricci That would be monstrosinous!
@jonny classic "Coldplay Kisscam" mistake #Monsterdon
@SnoopJ @Taweret is seymour steve martin? i have never seen this guy not old before #monsterdon
@_L1vY_ #Monsterdon is happening!
The plant, says "feed me" and Seymour, distraught climbs into its maw to kill himself, and appears in a new flower. His mom says "Seymour" and he replies "But I didn't mean it" before his flower falls. Then credits.
Don't feed the plants, kids.
Thanks everyone for coming to #monsterdon ! Special thanks to our host @Taweret and supporting cast including everyone here but also our trivia master @JoeWynne and our bingo maker @Cherizilla !
See you next week... bed time for me! zzzzz.
Mushnick again with the cops, way to go! Fuck them PoPos! #ACAB #monsterdon
@mdhughes They certainly have their priorities figured out!
Imagine having all this carnival music and not using it for this scene. #Monsterdon
Cue the Yakkity Sax, guys, time for the chase scene. #Monsterdon
lol, the plant faces are pretty freaky when you think about it....
the plan is easy from here my dogs, just be like "oh damn holy shit that plant eats people? news to us, we go home at night. sorry about that detectives" #monsterdon
Anyway, the ladies of the night are persistent, so they all proposition Seymour, who complains that they are too skinny and his master wants more meat. One of them "volunteers", thinking that she is signing up for a sex thing instead of a murder thing. Anyway, the mind controlled Seymour hits her with a rock then drags her back to the shop to feed the monster.
"Too boney." #monsterdon
Gotta appreciate Corman actually filming at night rather than doing the "Day masquerading as Night" which never works
So much physical comedy. The blinking with the light is silly
@JoeWynne Probably similar to craft services on a Corman film. #monsterdon
#monsterdon The challenge with counting up without an expressed top value is that your victim is guessing that value. Death at 3, 5, 10? Or something coquettish, like 3.14i? That's right, IMAGINARY NUMBERS. LOL.
An armed robber appears to get all the money that the shop is making now and threatens to shoot the shop owner. The shop owner decides to trick the robber into looking into the plants mouth, where the plant eats him.
Now they are both murderers, but the next day the owner tells newsie to get rid of the plant, because he feels worse about all the murders.
Newsie and his mom have a weird conversation where Newsie says he wants to marry Audrey, but his Mom says he's too young to marry and should play around more first and also he needs to get her an iron lung before he can get married, even though she can breathe fine.
Ah, he has a facial scar, so he must be evil
What fantastic fucking names they wrote.
Seymour Krelboined
Audrey Fulquard
Gravis Mushnick
Burson Fouch
Winifred Krelboined
Shirley Plump
Barbara Fridl
Mrs. Siddie Shiva
Mrs. Hortense Feuchtwanger
Sergeant Joe Fink
Officer Frank Stoolie
Leonora Clyde
Dr. Phoebus Farb
Wilbur Force
Mushnick: “Begun the Colon War has”
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If I were Mushnik I'd read where this story was going and just get the hell away from that thing...
Anyway, Miss Fishtwangler is giving Newsie an award for being good at growing giant plants and will return tomorrow with a trophy.
Every random character in the shop applauds newsie for this, emphasizing his tragic flaw (being tempted by the high status of praise, which I guess leads him to accidental murder).
#monsterdon Joe Fink, I'm a fink. LOL. Ratfink. ROTFL
Scene, great. Writing, good. Dialogue, spoken.
lost a kid yesterday playing with matches dang this _is_ comedy
Okay, so Newsie doesn't want to go to the dentist, so naturally he gets in a dental equipment fight and murders his dentist by accident. Then an Awkward Undertaker with Toothpain appears and Newsie pretends to be the dentist so the Undertaker will stop sitting in the lobby reading a magazine about pain, then he drills random teeth until the pain stops.
Then Newsie takes the dentists' body and feeds it to the murder plant apologetically.
I think if you were going to guess who in this movie would go on to be one of the world's biggest movie stars....
Characters in this #monsterdon
Newsie aka Seymour (main human character, murders people on accident)
Flesh Eating Plant (main monster character)
Slavic Shop Owner (tragic flaw: greed)
Audrey aka Love Interest for every character (virtue: orchestral improv)
Random Guys (various)
Sadistic Dentist
Babushka
Girls Needing Float Flowers
Uncomfortable Undertaker
Beat Cop Voiceover
@jivens "Est 1946"
Young Jack Nicholson, living in your nightmares next door to the Slender Man....
#monsterdon Why is everything 200 times more unsettling than in the color movie jc
Shop Owner accosts Newsie, who he knows is a murderer, but who also has a toothache. He asks what type of plant it is, and Newsie says its a Venus Fly Trap but doesn't think it needs to eat again. This gives shopowner an unspoken excuse to not turn in Newsie for murder, as he can now pretend that the plant won't eat anyone else.
Newsie, whose real name is Seymour I guess, has to go to the dentist, at which he sees another patient run screaming out of the office.
Uh oh, I think Young Jack Nicholson is coming....
@catzilla Inflation calculator says $9 in 1960 is $98.22 in 2025, so not *that* much.
#monsterdon Bring me a bottle of RIPPLE. I'll drink ANYTHING :)
Chicks REALLY dig horticulturalists, maybe it was worth murdering that drunk!
Going to the police would have halved the length of the movie.
Meanwhile, the shop owner is at a restaurant on a date with Audrey who is hotter than him, but he doesn't have enough money to pay, upsetting the waitress. He apologizes that he has receipts in his cash register worth nine dollars but the waiter insists that he gets it.
On his way back to the store, he sees the newsie singing christmas carols while he feeds a dead body into his plant, which gives him a TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE. He escapes unobserved.
so audrey is not his daughter? who is she? i assumed she was the flower shop owner's daughter and seymour was in love with her, but she is calling him gravis? #monsterdon
Is a man not entitled to the profits of his killer plants?
On newsie's walk he accidentally murders a guy. I forgot why, but he wasn't trying to, but for some reason he threw a thing at a dude and then the dude was squished by a train.
Naturally he takes the guy's body and then feeds it to his talking plant, which is just screaming "feed me!" and we see him feeding an arm to the plant.
#monsterdon This version of Audrey is the creepiest thing I've seen fr
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Plant food!
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