The Little Horror Shop (1986)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The little horror shop |
| Original title | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Country of production | United States |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 94 (120) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frank Oz |
| script |
Howard Ashman , Charles B. Griffith |
| production | David Geffen |
| music |
Miles Goodman (Score), Alan Menken (Songs) |
| camera | Robert Paynter |
| cut | John Jympson |
| occupation | |
The small horror shop (original title Little Shop of Horrors ) is the film adaptation of the musical of the same name . Directed by Frank Oz . Before this, the material was filmed in 1960 by Roger Corman as a small shop full of horror . The musical , which in turn served as a template for the Oz film, is based on this B-movie . The German premiere was on May 14, 1987.
action
Most of the story takes place in Mr. Mushnik's flower shop in downtown a large American city. The main character Seymour Krelborn is taken from the orphanage by him and mercilessly exploited as an assistant. Audrey, his secretly loved employee, is the main female character in the film. She is secretly drawn to Seymour, but is in a relationship with the sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello.
When the two employees are again waiting in vain for customers, Mr. Mushnik tells them that he has to close the shop. As a rescue, Audrey suggests putting the “insane new plant” that Seymour bought from a Chinese man in the window. In fact, the plant that Seymour calls Audrey II is attracting many new customers, which saves the ailing shop from ruin . However, the plant seems to wither, whereupon Seymour tries everything to save the plant. By chance he finds out how to keep the plant alive: He feeds it with his blood.
Due to the unusual diet, the plant grows at an insane rate. At the same time, sales increase because the onlookers buy bunches of flowers. The store becomes famous. The press, radio and television report on Seymour and its extraordinary plant.
At some point, Seymour sees himself no longer able to raise enough blood for Audrey II. Desperate for a solution, the plant begins to speak and makes a fateful suggestion: Seymour should kill Audrey's friend, the dentist Orin Scrivello. So Audrey II would get food and Seymour could win Audrey.
Determined to put this plan into action, Seymour goes into rival practice. However, he fails to shoot the dentist. Fortunately for Seymour, the sadist kills himself with an overdose of laughing gas . Seymour takes the body to Audrey II, chops up Scrivello and feeds him to the plant. Mr. Mushnik, who has been secretly watching the goings-on, wants to hand Seymour over to the police. At an inconvenient moment he has his back to Audrey II and also ends up as plant fodder, without Seymour being able to intervene.
Seymour can barely save Audrey from being eaten out of the mouth by Audrey II, who reveals herself to be a malevolent mother plant from space whose goal is to rule the earth with her kind. After Audrey II devastates the shop, Seymour manages to burn the plant and its fresh offshoots with an exposed power cable. He and Audrey find each other. In the last scene, a new, little Audrey II can be seen in the newlyweds' garden.
occupation
Supporting roles can be seen as the masochistic patient of the dentist Bill Murray and as the over-the-top radio reporter John Candy . The whole thing is accompanied by the three singers Chiffon, Crystal and Ronette, who also tell the story. Their names are allusions to three particularly successful girl groups of the 1960s: The Chiffons , The Crystals and The Ronettes .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Seymour Krelborn | Rick Moranis | Santiago Ziesmer |
| Audrey | Ellen Greene | Katja Nottke |
| 'Audrey II' | Levi Stubbs | Klaus Sunshine |
| Mr. Mushnik | Vincent Gardenia | Gerd Duwner |
| Dr. Orin Scrivello | Steve Martin | Norbert Gescher |
| Wink Wilkinson | John Candy | Andreas Mannkopff |
| Arthur Denton | Bill Murray | Uwe Paulsen |
| Patrick Martin | James Belushi | Ulrich Gressieker |
| The first customer | Christopher Guest | - |
| "Teller" | Stan Jones | Joachim Kerzel |
| chiffon | Tisha Campbell | Sabine Jaeger |
| Crystal | Tichina Arnold | - |
| Ronette | Michelle Weeks | - |
Original ending
Originally, the end of the film was supposed to look different: When Audrey almost becomes the meal of the autonomous plant, Seymour confesses to her that he has fed people to Audrey II. Shortly thereafter, Audrey dies of her injuries and asks Seymour to leave her body to the plant so that she is "somewhere in the country" after all. Thereupon Seymour regrets his actions and wants to put an end to the drift of the plant once and for all. But it is already too strong and devours him too. This is followed by a song by the three narrators in which you can see how offshoots of the plant are sold across America and an impressive special effects sequence in which gigantic Audrey II plants destroy New York. This corresponds to the end of the musical. After the audience had reacted negatively in test performances (quote from Frank Oz: “The audience hated us” → “The test audience hated us”), this ending was cut out and the above-mentioned happy ending was reproduced.
The Director's Cut, which was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in the USA on October 9, 2012, contains both the cinema ending and the original ending restored in color, sound and effects.
Pieces of music
- Downtown : Audrey and Seymour sing about escaping the poor life on Skid Row
- Grow for Me ( wax for me ): Seymour tried to animate II Audrey to grow
- Somewhere that's green ( Somewhere in the countryside ): Audrey dreams of a harmonious future as Seymour's wife in a cottage, far out in the open
- Feed Me ( Feed me ): Audrey II convinced Seymour to kill Orin, to quench the hunger of the plant
- Dentist ( Dentist ): Orin explains that he became a dentist because he can thereby live out his sadistic tendencies
- Suddenly, Seymour ( Now you have Seymour ): Audrey ponders how she got together with Seymour
- Supper Time ( meal time ): Audrey II swallows Mushnik
- The Meek Shall Inherit ( The last shall be first ): Seymour is thanks to Audrey II the star of the area
- Mean Green Mother From Outer Space ( Green Slime revealed Audrey II that it is an alien that has come to dominate the world:). This song is the only one that was not taken over from the musical but rewritten for the film.
production
Although the Jim Henson Company is not mentioned by name in the credits , Oz was able to draw on extensive support from his friends for the production of the carnivorous plant Audrey II . For the animation of the plant up to three dozen puppeteers were required at times. Those scenes in which the plant is lavishly animated belong to the most complicated shootings up to then, because due to the impossibility of animating Audrey II in real time, they could only be realized at reduced speed, i.e. actors, camera and puppeteer had to be realized Act and speak synchronously at a steadily reduced speed. Martin P. Robinson , the designer of Audrey II , had previously made a name for himself with his many years of work for Sesame Street .
criticism
“Musical version of a horror film parody; Staged quite lively, but at the end very much committed to special effects. Useful entertainment for friends of black and noisy humor. "
Awards
- 1987 Saturn Award for the best music, "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space"
Nominations for:
- 2 × Oscar for the best effects and optical effects and for the best music, original song
- 5 × Saturn Award for the best costumes, the best horror film, the best special effects and the best script
- 1 × BAFTA Award for the best special effects
- 1 × Artios for the best casting in a feature film, comedy
- 2 × Golden Globe for the best film in the comedy / musical category and the best film music in a film
- 1 × Hugo Award for the best acting
- 1 × WGA Award for the best script based on material from another medium
Web links
- Little Shop of Horrors at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The little horror shop atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Synopsis on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The little horror shop. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on January 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Stanley Jones on imdb.de
- ↑ Director's Cut on insidemovies.ew.com
- ↑ The Little Horror Shop in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on April 14, 2012.
- ↑ Awards on imdb.com