Seasoned with epsom salt?! woof.

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So the plant echoes the voices of whoever is alone near it?

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#monsterdon "You look fat enough!"

Audrey comes to visit Seymour, introducing her to his mom and the two of them hang out at his mom's house. Because nothing in this movie is normal, the mom offers her cure to Audrey, which she says tastes like cough syrup. She corrects that it is Doctor (So-and-So's) cough syrup. The two dine on liver oil, which the mother has to cure her liver or something.

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@jivens #monsterdon Maybe I'll finally have to see it.

Dr Phlegm's Cough Syrup. 2% turpentine. 98% alcohol.

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I think the actors just pretty much do whatever they want, just shenanigans.

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Some cops appear, looking for a missing dentist and a missing guy squished by a train. Shop Owner pretends to cooperate but acts Extremely Suspicious, but the cops are stupid and decide that he knows nothing so they leave. He asks Newsie to make sure that the plant doesn't grow more; Newsie said it at 3000 japanese beetles.

Then a fancy lady appears and expresses horticultural interest in the giant plant, asking if there will be more. Her names is "Fishtwangler", which is cool.

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I'm more concerned by the kids playing with matches.

"Those are the breaks."
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This is SoCal?

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#Monsterdon boy volunteers his mom to make dinner for a date? lame

Meshugginah plant! #monsterdon

Good job, Mushnick! Fuck the PoPos. ACAB. #monsterdon

If Audrey Jr just eats them all will the movie end sooner? #Monsterdon

blood? in the dentist's office?

COULD BE FROM THE TEETH.

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Corman sat down and said, for this scene, let's see if we can torture the English language *totally* to death. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Mrs. Shiva is connected to Fink! Now THAT's world building!

@trixter oh yeah, probably before electric refrigeration and shit, back when they used to ship in ice from cold places for people
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...It's monsterdonitous!

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"Oh boy! You kiss good, Audrey!"

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@berniethewordsmith I haven't seen the color one, but perhaps it has to do with how many characters awkwardly display a casual, yet comedic sociopathy.

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"Fink" = "Pig" I think....

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"You mighta been a crummy dentist, but you were a nice fella."

doubt.jpg

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Heh, blooper, Seymour's hat fell into the puppet and it was back on in after the jump cut.

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#monsterdon The best thing for a dentist, a hypersexual masochist! Go get 'em Jack.

My first dentist had one of those crazy belt-driven drills. It was wild.

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PAIN magazine reminds me there's a medical journal that was called "journal of trauma" (it's now titled "journal of trauma and acute care surgery")

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@jivens It started out as a French bread publication #monsterdon

#monsterdon Herbie the Elf ain't got nothing on this sadistic dentist. I think this is what activated so many boomers against dentists... hahahahaha

I have the dentist scene stuck in my fucking head from when I was a little kid, #monsterdon

You can tell a dentist knows his stuff when he's wearing a scarf and a bonnet hat

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That's a different end to the dentist than the musical.

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Jack Nicholson!

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#Monsterdon "PAIN" magazine lol

#monsterdon Mushnick is facing the time honored conflict that all CEO's struggle with. Dead bodies and murder for profits, or... yeah... that's awesome, let's just look the other way.

Coming in late on #monsterdon and OH HEY LOOK Sadistic Dentist!

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So... like, this is actually an incisive inquiry into the corrupting influence of the desperation of poverty with the temptations of greed... 🤔🤔🤔

Deep.

They make fun of British teeth but what the fuck is going on here?

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@Bluedepth I'll even drink Malört!

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oh god, not the dentist, please.

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the "seedling" for one of my favorite genres: the horror-comedy. I love this movie!

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Mushnick is having a hard day, but he still knows the receipts! #Monsterdon

Things are not looking up for next Christmas

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TBF that is a sackable offence, right there...no finals warnings....gone

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I’ve heard of “Wringing my hands” but… wringing my foot?!

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Really? That was pathetic.
Also... it didn't occur to him to try the butcher shop..?

Got to feed the plant human meat..?

Oh come now, save some blame for the dude who threw himself on a train track

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...So the drunk got hit by a train and that shrunk him down far enough to fit in a potato sack? #monsterdon

Well, at least that death was an accident.

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The train came from Maximum Overdrive I guess #monsterdon

I fed myself right before we started. Dbl cheeseburger(1/2 lb) with bacon, onion rings, lettuce tomato mayo and catsup. Fries not needed. #monsterdon

this is unbelievably badly shot

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This is some kind of weird metaphor for Freudian babies

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I didn't realize how many little details were the same from the 1960 movie to the 1986 movie. I thought it was just the main story. I didn't remember the dentist or the Rosebowl or Mushnik wanting to adopt Seymour. #Monsterdon

"feed me"

Kid doesn't realize butchers exist.

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The man eating plant and it's insatiable hunger is of course....Capitalism

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#Monsterdon if my cats could talk, "feed me" would be their number one priority too

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I had forgotten how funny the script really is.

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my money is on Mushnik getting eaten

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The malapropisms are cracking me up. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon These two talk like they are identical twins, or the Stygian Witches from Clash of the Titans. LOL. Like a conversational ping-pong tournament

I don't understand Mushniks business plan, I fear he's already spent the seed money on a new suit

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🛍️ LITTLE SHOP OF TRIVIA 🌷🦷

Soundtrack sound familiar? Composer Fred Katz sold to Roger Corman the same score for seven films, including Bucket of Blood and Monsterdon unfavorite The Wasp Woman.

Katz had a music editor repurpose segments of previous scores for each request.

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Snake oil is snake oil. 98% alcohol or otherwise. The more things change...

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If you get a plant from a mysterious old Asian man maybe check if he is also selling gremlins #Monsterdon

@wohali can't wait to see him eggs! #monsterdon

#monsterdon "My wife's making gardenias for dinner."

I don't think Audrey Jr. will be the sweetest thing in the whole wide world, not without a staggering amount of added sugar

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lol, Dick Miller's character just spends his whole day in the flower shop, but sure this isn't drugs...

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@jonny I’m pro. Can’t speak for the group. #Monsterdon

98%
I mean giving ma cleaning alcohol would fix the issue I guess.

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Seymour's mom should watch Monsterdon with us

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#monsterdon Alcoholic content 98% percent!!!

Hell of a way to go.
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YES!! Seymour for president. Absolutely.

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Whoa a third filming location, extravagant

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Get the Joke

The evil seeds are said to come from a "plantation next to a cranberry farm." This is a reference to a big news story from 1959 about the cranberry harvest being tainted by the herbicide aminotriazole.

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Having to keep up with all the new plants. Back when flower shops had pride. #monsterdon

There is actually a monster or at least one in this film so it technically meets #monsterdon criteria

Mr. Mushnick definitely has comedic timing! Actually, the whole cast does. Admirable.

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Dick Miller was also in Piranha

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@catzilla Well, SOMEONE was in the back singing "Marble Halls" 😂

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The guy being tortured there in the dentist's chair is screenwriter Charles Griffith!

According to Timothy Rush of Classic-Horror.com, it's better to think of this movie as a black comedy, not a horror movie.

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Glorying in all the Yiddishism here. "You want I should…" "…for to…" and wait, is the mourning customer called Mrs. Shiva?

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New fear unlocked: dentist who talks on the phone during the appointment #monsterdon

Wot in carnation

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Were those Reese's cups?

And is this going to be a Pink Panther film??

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Wow these actors are Jewishing it *up.* #monsterdon

I dig the title sketch, that is incredible work. MAD Magazine style. Prob go back and rewatch that a bit more.
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Here we go, my first propper experience with #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon ok i'm all here for this drawn opening credit sequence

I like the drawings

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boooo cop narrator booooo

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Bill Murray as Jack Nicholson!

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HERE WE GO

Rock it, Levi Stubbs!

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this dentist is part Frank from Blue Velvet
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@TerryHancock @msh @Taweret yeah the knife really didn't make much sense if he wasn't planning on doing some kind of harm to the plant, but then why jump in

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here he is girls the leader of the plaque
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@forestine There is no way I can attend those, it's too early at night on a week night for me 😞

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@SnoopJ Hmm yeah that's a good point... I'm not all that familiar with stage productions in general and I definitely hadn't thought about how it would or wouldn't work from different locations in the theater

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