Little Shop of Horrors (1986) on Netflix
PG-1319861h 34mComedyMusicalSci-Fi
Seymour Krelborn, an orphan working at Mushnik's flower shop on Skid Row, has a crush on his co-worker Audrey Fulquard. A plant he names Audrey II draws customers and craves blood.
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Plot summary
Mr. Mushnik's flower shop on Skid Row is doing so poorly that he decides to close it, until Audrey suggests displaying a strange plant owned by their co-worker Seymour Krelborn. Seymour found the plant during a solar eclipse and named it Audrey II. It draws a customer right away and brings the shop much business. When the plant begins to wither, Seymour cuts a finger and learns that it feeds on human blood. The plant grows fast, and Seymour becomes a local celebrity on the radio show of Wink Wilkinson. Audrey, the co-worker he adores, has an abusive boyfriend, the dentist Orin Scrivello.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film was originally set up with Steven Spielberg as executive producer and Martin Scorsese attached to direct it in 3D, until production stalled over a lawsuit by the original film's screenwriter and actor, Charles B. Griffith.
- This was the first DVD ever recalled for content, after Warner released a 1998 special edition carrying 23 minutes of unfinished footage without the rights owner even knowing.
- The film's villain-plant song became the first Oscar-nominated song ever to contain profanity in its lyrics, and the first nominated song ever sung by a villain.
- The crew figured out how to make the plant puppet move convincingly by accident, discovering that filming it slower and speeding up the footage in playback made its motion look startlingly lifelike and fast.
- Bringing the giant carnivorous plant to life in its largest form on set required around sixty puppeteers working together at once, many of whom had worked with director Frank Oz on films like The Dark Crystal and Return of the Jedi.
- Bill Murray played the masochistic dental patient, renamed Arthur Denton for this film, and improvised all of his dialogue; the same character had been played by Jack Nicholson in Corman's original film.
