{"id":35725,"date":"2016-01-13T11:18:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T18:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=35725"},"modified":"2021-09-25T22:51:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T05:51:42","slug":"little-shop-of-horrors-the-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=35725","title":{"rendered":"Little Shop of Horrors, The (1960)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Feeeeed me!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-Poster-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-Poster-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-Poster-82x128.jpg 82w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-Poster.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe nebbishy employee (Jonathan Haze) of an irritable flower-shop owner (Mel Welles) tries to impress his sweet co-worker Audrey (Jackie Joseph) by naming a new hybrid plant after her &#8212; but Seymour (Haze) soons learns that &#8220;Audrey, Jr.&#8221; lusts for human blood, and he becomes caught in a vicious cycle of securing his flesh-eating plant with fresh food.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Black Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Dentists<\/li>\n<li>Dick Miller Films<\/li>\n<li>Jack Nicholson Films<\/li>\n<li>Killer Plants<\/li>\n<li>Roger Corman Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary writes that this &#8220;genuinely funny cult classic&#8221; (directed by Roger Corman in &#8220;just two days&#8221;, and written by Charles B. Griffith) is &#8220;a low-budget gem&#8221;: a &#8220;spoof of every mad-scientist picture in which blood is needed to keep some experimental creature alive, and of every fifties sci-fi film in which there is a giant mutation, and of numerous horror films&#8221;. He points out its similarity to &#8220;Jerry Lewis comedies, with Seymour as the man-child with an IQ of seven, a good heart, a lousy personality, and work habits that drive his boss crazy&#8221;. He also notes the connection to <em>Dragnet<\/em> in the hilariously &#8220;terse, unemotional dialogue between&#8230; two detectives investigating missing persons&#8221;. Peary argues (and I agree) that the film &#8220;works on its own terms as [a] good, absurd comedy&#8221;, and that &#8220;the cast is marvelous &#8212; they might pass as a Yiddish repertory company which has been working with the script for years instead of doing it while it was being written&#8221;. The storyline stays consistently outlandish, filled with one unexpected scene after the other &#8212; including the infamous &#8220;dentist scene&#8221; featuring the &#8220;little-known Jack Nicholson as the squeaky-voiced masochist&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-Nicholson2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-Nicholson2-1024x639.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-56914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-Nicholson2-1024x639.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-Nicholson2-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-Nicholson2-128x80.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-Nicholson2-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-Nicholson2-1536x959.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-Nicholson2-432x270.png 432w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-Nicholson2.png 1635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; visits from &#8220;a low-keyed flower eater&#8221; (Dick Miller) which presumably are intended to &#8220;counter the man-eating flower&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Miller.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Miller-1024x637.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-56915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Miller-1024x637.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Miller-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Miller-128x80.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Miller-768x478.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Miller-1536x956.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Miller-434x270.png 434w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Miller.png 1637w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;Seymour&#8217;s visits with his hypochondriac mother (Myrtle Vail)&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Vail.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Vail-1024x641.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"401\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-56916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Vail-1024x641.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Vail-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Vail-128x80.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Vail-768x481.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Vail-1536x961.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Vail-432x270.png 432w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Vail.png 1635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and each of Seymour&#8217;s unintentional killings &#8212; er, scavenger hunts for food. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Seymour.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Seymour-1024x639.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-56918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Seymour-1024x639.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Seymour-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Seymour-128x80.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Seymour-768x479.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Seymour-1536x958.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Seymour-433x270.png 433w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Seymour.png 1631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>LSOH<\/em> was eventually made into an off-Broadway musical, which itself was turned into a 1986 film by Frank Oz (listed in the back of Peary&#8217;s book). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The creative opening credits<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Opening.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Opening-1024x638.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-56919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Opening-1024x638.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Opening-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Opening-128x80.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Opening-768x478.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Opening-1536x957.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Opening-434x270.png 434w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Opening.png 1617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Many enjoyably ludicrous scenes and moments<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Horrors-Hand.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Horrors-Hand-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-56920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Horrors-Hand-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Horrors-Hand-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Horrors-Hand-128x80.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Horrors-Hand-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Horrors-Hand-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Horrors-Hand-432x270.png 432w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Horrors-Hand.png 1633w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fine performances from the entire cast<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Cast-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Cast-1-1024x645.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"403\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-56921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Cast-1-1024x645.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Cast-1-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Cast-1-128x81.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Cast-1-768x483.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Cast-1-1536x967.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Cast-1-429x270.png 429w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Little-Shop-Cast-1.png 1619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Charles B. Griffith&#8217;s script: &#8220;It&#8217;s a finger of speech!&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, as a cult classic. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cult Movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0054033\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifilm.org\/musing1717.html\">SciFilm Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moria.co.nz\/horror\/little-shop-of-horrors-1960.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s2101shop.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/film\/the-little-shop-of-horrors\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Feeeeed me!&#8221; Synopsis: The nebbishy employee (Jonathan Haze) of an irritable flower-shop owner (Mel Welles) tries to impress his sweet co-worker Audrey (Jackie Joseph) by naming a new hybrid plant after her &#8212; but Seymour (Haze) soons learns that &#8220;Audrey, Jr.&#8221; lusts for human blood, and he becomes caught in a vicious cycle of securing his flesh-eating plant with fresh food. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Black Comedy Dentists Dick Miller Films Jack Nicholson Films Killer Plants Roger Corman Films&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=35725\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35725"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76515,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35725\/revisions\/76515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}