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The Little Shop Of Horrors (1960)
American horror comedy film.
The film is a farce about an inadequate florist’s assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood.
The Little Shop Of Horrors slowly gained a cult following through word of mouth when it was distributed as the B movie in a double feature.
The film’s popularity increased with local television broadcasts, and the presence of a young Jack Nicholson, whose small role in the film has been prominently promoted on home video releases of the film. At the time of shooting, Jack Nicholson had appeared in two films and worked with Roger Corman as the lead in The Cry Baby Killer.
The film was the basis for an Off-Broadway musical, Little Shop of Horrors, which was notably made into a 1986 feature film and enjoyed a 2003 Broadway revival, all of which have attracted attention to the 1960 film.
Interesting Film Trivia:
When asked where Seymour got the plant, he replies that the seeds were obtained by a Japanese gardener who found the bulb in a “plantation next to a cranberry farm.” This joke is lost on modern audiences. In 1959, it was announced that cranberry crops were tainted with traces of the herbicide aminotriazole, and, as a result, cranberry sales plummeted.
| Directed by | Roger Corman |
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| Produced by | Roger Corman |
| Screenplay by | Charles B. Griffith |
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| Narrated by | Wally Campo |
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| Edited by | Marshall Neilan, Jr. |
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The Filmgroup
Santa Clara Productions |
| Distributed by | The Filmgroup American International Pictures |
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72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $28,000–34,000 |
| Box office | 25,066 admissions (France) |
