Small shop full of horrors
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Small shop full of horrors |
| Original title | The Little Shop of Horrors |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 70 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roger Corman |
| script | Charles B. Griffith |
| production | Roger Corman |
| music |
Fred Katz Ronald Stein |
| camera |
Archie R. Dalzell Vilis Lapenieks (not mentioned) |
| cut | Marshall Neilan Jr. |
| occupation | |
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Little Shop of Horrors (Original title: The Little Shop of Horrors , working title The Passionate People Eater ) is an American horror -Komödie from 1960. The B-movie by Roger Corman is one of the most successful low-budget productions of all time and a classic of the genre as well as one of the fastest-produced films of all time. It tells the story of a man who befriends a carnivorous plant that can talk. People are at the top of their menu.
Emergence
Director Corman and screenwriter Charles B. Griffith reportedly wrote the book in a single evening. The actors that Corman recruited from a staff with whom he had made other films began rehearsing their roles three days before shooting began. The most important recordings were shot in two days and one night. Corman used three cameras at the same time and each scene was recorded only once, which is why some scenes in the film last two or three minutes. According to various sources, the budget available for the film was only $ 27,000 to $ 34,000 .
action
The film tells the story of Seymour Krelboyne, a clumsy assistant in a Los Angeles flower shop owned by Gravis Mushnick. Because of bad business, Mushnick wants to fire Seymour until Audrey, another employee Seymour is secretly in love with, tells him to put his strange new plant in the window. Seymour named his new plant after Audrey and Mushnick is giving Seymour a week to show what his plant can do.
Audrey Jr., the plant that looks a bit like a Venus flytrap, immediately attracts customers' attention, giving the store an unexpected boost. But the plant threatens to wither, and Mushnick urges Seymour to nurse it back to health. After many unsuccessful attempts, Seymour accidentally discovers, after cutting himself on a piece of glass, how to feed the plant to keep it alive: it calls for human blood. Seymour begins to meet Audrey Jr. to feed with blood from his finger. The success is resounding; the next day the plant has grown to double its size and Mushnick's shop is doing better than ever.
Seymour becomes famous, and his colleague Audrey begins to love him back. But the plant becomes sick again and tells Seymour what to do. She begins to speak to him and asks to be fed by him. When the desperate Seymour accidentally kills a tramp in an unfortunate accident, he decides to give the body to Audrey Jr. to feed. Mushnick watches as Seymour feeds the hacked corpse to the plant, but decides, because he is now a rich man thanks to Seymour and his plant, to keep the gruesome discovery to himself. Unfortunately, the tramp was actually a railroad detective. Police officers Joe Fink and Frank Stoolie's investigations into their missing colleague lead them straight to Mr. Mushnick's flower shop.
The ceaselessly growing plant Audrey Jr. asks for more and more blood, making it a growing problem for Seymour. To keep the store going and to secure Audrey's love, Seymour finds himself forced to secretly kill people to get plant fodder. In the end, Seymour, with the intention of getting Audrey Jr. into the plant and is eaten by it itself. Mushnick and others discover that Audrey's flowers show the tortured faces of their victims, including Seymour's.
Other characters in the film are Dr. Phoebus Farb, Mushnick's sadistic dentist; Burson Fouch, a customer who loves to eat flowers; Mrs. Saddie Shivah, another customer; Mrs. Winifried Krelboyne, Seymour's hypochondriac mother - and Wilbur Force, a masochistic dentist patient .
criticism
Lexicon of international film : Amusing and grotesque horror comedy which, with its mixture of black humor, comic effects and puns, indirectly attacks a decadent society that is aimed at pure enjoyment.
particularities
- Notable is Jack Nicholson in a supporting role as the dentist's masochistic patient.
- The film was originally shot in black and white ; Colored versions appeared in 1987 and 2006.
- The Junior Carnivorous Plant isn't the main focus of the plot - it's just one oddity among many around the flower shop. In the end it fades undramatically, while in the musical it is either killed or takes over the world .
- The humor is somewhat similar to the piece of arsenic and lace cap .
Remakes
In 1986, directed by Frank Oz ever a remake titled The Little Shop of Horrors took place, should in 2013 under the direction of Warner Bros. another remake arise. The screenplay was to be written by the Spaniard Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and the main role of Seymour Krelboyne was to be cast by Joseph Gordon-Levitt . However, this film has not yet been produced.
musical
The audience's interest in the film was rekindled when Alan Menken and Howard Ashman wrote the musical Der kleine Horrorladen in 1982 , which was also filmed in 1986 by Frank Oz under the title Der kleine Horrorladen .
Although Corman describes his film as humorous, it incorporates more elements of the traditional horror film than the 1986 musical and remake.
Web links
- Little Shop of Horrors at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Video Little Shop Of Horrors on Archive.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Small shop full of horrors. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Another “LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS” is opening ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Another Little Shop of Horrors Redux in Development
- ↑ Joseph Gordon-Levitt Developing 'Little Shop of Horrors' as Acting Vehicle (Exclusive)
