The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) | |
| Director(s) | Roger Corman, Charles B. Griffith (uncredited), Mel Welles (uncredited) |
| Producer(s) | Roger Corman |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Musical |
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The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Roger Corman and Charles B. Griffith and produced by Roger Corman.
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THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) On Blu-ray From Film Masters
By Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 13, 2024 From The Hitless Wonder Movie BlogThe Film Masters Blu-ray release of THE TERROR (1963) contains a second disc with another famed public domain cult film: the original THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. The production history of the original LITTLE SHOP has become a film geek legend. Roger Corman's ultra-cheap, ultra-quick black comedy mig... Read full article
[BASP] The Little Shop of Horrors (1960, Roger Corman) / Please Don&’t Eat My Mother (1973, Carl Monson)
By Andrew Wickliffe on May 9, 2016 From The Stop ButtonThe Best of An Alan Smithee Podcast: Episode Twenty-two The Little Shop of Horrors (1960, Roger Corman) / Please Don&’t Eat My Mother (1973, Carl Monson) Originally posted: January 3, 2013 Subscribe via iTunes.... Read full article
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960, Roger Corman)
on Aug 28, 2013 From The Stop ButtonThe filmmaking economy in The Little Shop of Horrors is astounding. Most of the film takes place in one set–the titular shop–and Charles B. Griffith’s script works hard to imply the world outside that set. My favorite bit in the script is probably when leading man Jonathan Haze is ... Read full article
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Wilbur Force: [reading an article from "Pain" magazine in the waiting room of the dentist; giggling] "The patient came to me with a large hole in his abdomen, caused by a fire poker used on him by his wife. He almost bled to death and gangrene had set in. I didn't give him much of a chance. There were other complications. The man had cancer, tuberculosis, leprosy, and a touch of the grippe. I decided to operate."
Burson Fouch: I remember in one flower shop there was a whole wall covered with poison ivy. People came from miles around to look at that wall and they stayed to buy.
Gravis Mushnik: And the owner got rich?
Burson Fouch: No, he scratched himself to death in an insane asylum.
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Although the film is legendary for having been shot in only two days, Jonathan Haze recalled in "The Little Shop of Horrors Book" that he was called back several weeks later for re-shoots.
Charles B. Griffith put several of his relatives in the film; Myrtle Vail - "grandmother" Myrt - for example, is actually his grandmother, and the hobo that Dr. Farb tortures in his office is Griffith's father. He also placed several of his relatives in crowd scenes. The bums in the background of the street shots on Skid Row are real transients, however, and were filmed in the actual skid row area of Los Angeles.
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