@jivens "Est 1946"

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#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.

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Uh oh, I think Young Jack Nicholson is coming....

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Going to the police would have halved the length of the movie.

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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.

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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?

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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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#monsterdon This version of Audrey is the creepiest thing I've seen fr

I choo-choo-choose you

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Plant food!
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Ah yes, the classic old-timey passtime of throwing rocks

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@jonny True but what would #Monsterdon be without bad decision making

What is Mrs. Shiva's deal, she just likes flowers and is trying to get a deal every day by claiming bereavement?

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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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@brooke #monsterdon I named a cat, a stray I adopted, "Audrey," yeah, on account of this flick.

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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EEEEEK WTF?!?!? i do not like plants that like blood

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chicks dig horticulturalists

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fuck. I need to smoke more weed for this...

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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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"you like even skunk cabbage"
"yeah"

like that wasn't a dig at her, it's just a true fact that she's a stinky broad who loves stinky things #monsterdon

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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@jonny Maybe 50% of what happens in the movie is the opening credits

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ewwww why is he eating the carnations? they’re not even

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eeeeeeek i hate the sound of dentist drills

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“What am I a philatelist?”

Philatelist : person who studies or collects postage stamps.

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Free jazz soundtrack is bleep, zap, donk, zooba-zooba-see bop

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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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@SRLevine #Monsterdon

@SRLevine

In the Corman movie, Seymour does the dentistry on the masochist

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This Frank Oz guy is good with puppets

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#monsterdon I have to find the cassette that I have of the soundtrack from the play. My high school did a field trip to go see it.
I'm sure it's in a box somewhere.

Note to self: get street gang to bully girl into dating you

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@paco @_L1vY_ oh that's a good point

I had kind of assumed the head was in that bag somewhere and it was just straight-up displaying the original face

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Thanks, everyone, for another great #Monsterdon, and especially thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @Cherizilla for #MonsterdonBingo, and @JoeWynne for the themed drink.

Cheers!

Just imagine if Audrey Jr had been a corpse flower.

https://youtube.com/shorts/iwT_mxgVNmM?si=FiXUHX94MItkBq9L

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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 #monsterdon

@floatybirb Hot girls and money, you say? Tell me, where does one get ahold of one of these murder plants? Are they on sale in the lobby, maybe? #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe Beginnings, endings, all always arbitrary. It's almost beat. #monsterdon

Who knew the shop owner and the, um, lady of the night? were married.

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Am I a Moranis? Or am I a Muppet?
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@davesdogmaggie no, people were just tiny.... #Monsterdon

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.

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How is it pouring, and the singers aren’t wet at all?

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I got that stupid Steve Martin dentist song in my head now.

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Bingo, I think
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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!

>_>

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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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And now, Scooby Doo shenanigans.
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Ya dirty rat plant!!

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Timpani player is going HAM

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That mud puddle is very important later in the film

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so would you say this is a...

faceplant?

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Oh no, Corman just remembered that voiceover was possible #monsterdon

Same rock. What are the odds

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For some reason, the writing in this movie is giving me the vibe of something made in the 1930s (or maybe 1940s)

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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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#monsterdon Banana peel slapstick ... AND felatio subtext!?!? Genius!!!

#monsterdon Nooooo not the banana

You'd think Audrey would have latched on to the whole thing about Seymour's mouth not moving a little better

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No one will ever be a better Audrey than Ellen Greene, but this Audrey is pretty awesome.

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Audrey II is jealous of their human union....

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

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

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

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Spoiled kids these days with their iron lungs… back in my day we had to wheeze like REAL Americans!
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I like how Seymour has a flower pinned to his sweater, presumably because he doesn't have a buttonhole

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I mean... not the worst way to defend yourself from an armed robber.

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#monsterdon Doctor Phlegms Cough Syrup. Glorp Glorp.

In the 80s version of this does the plant lure people into it with song?

I would like to see an anime version of that, 18+

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@SRLevine Audrey seems kinda naive and easily impressed TBH

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@blue sure sounds like it, but who knows!

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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.

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The S.O.S.F.O.O.S.C. #monsterdon

#monsterdon fishTWANGER

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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#Monsterdon The Audrey's are the only ones keeping that place afloat.

“It’s a finger of speech.”

Stealing that.

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It's a finger of speech!

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"You're a good kisser."
"I guess my dad is a good teacher..."
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I know this isn't like, a great movie but I have to say I am finding it genuinely enjoyable

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Jackie Joseph is a total babe but I don't care for this performance

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Even adjusting for inflation, $0.49 is cheap for pants.

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🛍️ 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.

You know, the #Monsterdom comment was me being sarcastic.

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#Monsterdon This is a cheap gag, but it's still a fun prop.

Young Jack Nicholson, living in your nightmares next door to the Slender Man....

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the dentist is scary

Hi there, Jack Nicholson!

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

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@catzilla Inflation calculator says $9 in 1960 is $98.22 in 2025, so not *that* much.

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

@SnoopJ a dentist in need of murderin'

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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.

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@plaidtron3000 I did not realize this was a Corman film, but I totally understand now

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Chicks REALLY dig horticulturalists, maybe it was worth murdering that drunk!

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they really shouldn't shout how much is in the till, fucking OPSEC man!

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Wait, is this a Christmas movie‽
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squeezing out the wrist offal like a damn gogurt, that's all i eat too #monsterdon