Roger Corman's Little Shop of Horrors

Most people have at least a passing familiarity with the 1986 big-budget musical-comedy remake of Little Shop of Horrors which was based on a stage play that was based on the 1960 Roger Corman low-budget quickie posted below. The original is a B-grade horror comedy that Corman filmed in a weekend for $30,000 using old sets from other movies. A lot of credit should also go to scribe Charles B. Griffith, who wrote a number of Corman cult classics, including Death Race 2000, Attack of the Crab Monsters, and A Bucket of Blood. He appears as several minor characters in the movie as well, and is even the voice of hungry plant Audrey Jr. You'll also notice frequent Corman actor/collaborator and future Oscar-winner Jack Nicholson as the masochistic dentist patient (played by Bill Murray in the '86 version).

The humor is a little dated, but it's still a good little B-movie about a man-eating plant, and who wouldn't love that?

Little Shop of Horrors was released to theaters on September 14, 1960.

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