The Little Shop of Horrors
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Characters in this

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

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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.

Bluedepth

Bring me a bottle of RIPPLE. I'll drink ANYTHING :)

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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.

saucerlost

Is a man not entitled to the profits of his killer plants?

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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.

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Okay, so the next night the pac man plant starts talking and yelling "feed me" to which newsie replies "omg you can talk" and then monologues at him, but apologizes that he ran out of fingers. But the plant wants blood so that doesn't persuade it.

Newsie then goes for a walk to think of how to feed his carnivorous plant.

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A pair of randomly generated lesbians wander into the shop, with $2000 to spend on dollars, because they're building a float for a parade, and they stop to admire the plant. Then it turns out that they're not lesbians, because they glomp newsie after discovering how good his flower skills are.

Then they leave, and the shop owner talks about how rich he will be and how they will move the shop to a better neighborhood and then audrey announces that they will have an orchestra too.

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Okay, so newsie shows the main flower guy and two randos his flower, which he says he got from a Japanese gardener by a cranberry farm or something. He named the plant "Audrey Junior" after another employee who he likes, because she is nice and has boobs. She is flattered that the plant is named after her.

He is sad that it is dying because he can't figure out what to feed it. Uh oh.

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I appreciate how the old lady mother wants the newsie son to get a newspaper so she can do a self-diagnosis contest, the winner of which can go to... the Mayo Clinic.

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bk1e

I’m searching 1960 newspaper archives for The Little Shop of Horrors and it’s interesting to see that The Little Shop of Horrors was often shown along with another Corman movie, either Last Woman on Earth or House of Usher.

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@CactuarJoe I guess you find them from like... a plantation by a cranberry swamp? with a japanese curator?

... oh fuck I think I realized how the shojo manga adaptation connects to this

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A movie written in dive bars and coffee shops, rewritten countless times, and done on a shoestring budget to get another movie out of another movie's props, with two days of indoor shooting.

If you expected solid cinematography, good plotting and pacing and a nice neat bow of an ending, your expectations may need moderation.

Also, it's #monsterdon, we're not lining up Masterpieces Of Cinema here.

Thanks @Taweret for this cornerstone of film.

#monsterdon #littleshop60

Cactuar Joe
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The fun thing about Roger Corman is that he discovered you can just stop filming and CALL it an ending, whether it actually is or not! Genius!

>_>

#Monsterdon

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So the cops are chasing Seymour past a horde of children and through a pile of tractor tires and start shooting at him. The shop owner is there for some reason; he seems to be hindering their search by tripping them, but they don't notice.

Seymour escapes them by hiding in the toilet maze, then returns to the shop.

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We learn that the plant has eaten enough people that it has the power of hypnosis, and it thus hypnotizes and commands Seymour to go find it more food.

He wanders trance-like through the city, past several prostitutes who are mad that he isn't interested in them. One of them trips him with a banana peel then tries to proposition him using old timey language that doesn't make sense. He replies "Master is Hungry" then wanders off.

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Yo which character has the most fucked up dialog in this movie?

I would list more options but I ran out of options.

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Ma, you've been on incel reddit again, haven't ya ma?

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Ah, right, Dick Miller was in the Bell Riots episodes of DS9. I was sitting here scratching my head wondering what I'd seen him in.

I'm sure there's plenty of other things I've seen him in, but that's the one that burned his face into my memory.

#Monsterdon

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Newsie returns to the plant shop and the plant is bigger now. Shop Owner is concerned, because this implies murder happened. Love Interest thinks that Newsie is hot (I guess because his... plant... is very big) and he asks her out, so they agree to go on a date.

Then a lady appears because her son burned himself to death with matches and she needs to buy flowers I guess. This distracts newsie.

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πŸ¦–#MONSTERDON 🎞️

πŸ›οΈ LITTLE SHOP OF TRIVIA 🌷🦷

Jack Nicholson said that Corman really didn't want him in the film, so he just went for it in his part.

Jack said that they practiced the scene a little outside, then immediately went in to film. The lights were turned on and soon Haze (Seymour Krelboined) was pulling his teeth.

Just before the end, Haze knocked over the lights, Corman caught them and then said "cut, move on to next scene". They never really finished that scene.

saucerlost

Call me crazy, but I feel like a lot of this wailing, brackish dialogue could be replaced with catchy songs

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On the return to the restaurant, Shop Owner orders all the alcohol and tells Audrey that he saw a shop murder. He pledges to go tell the police tomorrow. But the Beat Cop Voiceover tells us that he did not, in fact, go to the police, because that would have resolved the problem.

It turns out that the shop has a lot of business the next day because the carnivorous plant has made lots of flowers or something and now they are rich.