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[[File:Littleshopofhorrors 1960film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Scene from ''Little Shop of Horrors (1960 film)''...]]

''Little Shop of Horrors'' (1960), AKA ''The Passionate People Eater'', remade shortly afterward as a live musical, which was in turn re-adapted to film in a 1986 musical.  ''Little Shop of Horrors'' was a sort of spiritual successor to Corman's previous film and successful first try at black comedy, ''A Bucket of Blood'' (1959, forgettably remade in 1995).

==Summary==
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"The store with more!"  A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it. 

==Details==

* Release Date:  1960
* Country/Language:  US, English
* Genres/Technical:  Comedy, Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
* Runtime:  1 hr 12 min
* Starring:   Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles
* Director:  [[Roger Corman]], Charles B. Griffith and Mel Welles (uncredited) 
* Writer:  Charles B. Griffith, [[Roger Corman]] (not credited)
* Producer/Production Co:  The Filmgroup, Santa Clara Productions, [[Roger Corman]]
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKp4IseynTU link]), ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amlXKaqk2jg link]), ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWu1Q16AV5U link])
* View Film:  ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEzoCoIolJ0 A Bucket of Blood (1959)]), ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhSP0ldQnuk Little Shop of Horrors (1960)]) (in public domain)

==Ratings==
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* Rated:  (not rated) (perhaps equivalent to a PG-13 for mild, comedic Violence and Adult Content)

===Tentacle Ratings===
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* S____ (One Tentacle:  Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)

Not particularly "Lovecraftian", beyond the psychic, talking plant-monster from another world, though there is surely some potential for a [[Delta Green]] scenario in there, somewhere....

''Note:  This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

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==Synopsis==
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* A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959) - Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting "artwork", Walter feels forced to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process....
* LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) - Seymour Krelboin works in the Skid Row flower shop owned by Mr. Mushnik. In his spare time, Seymour creates a new plant species he names Audrey Junior in honor of his girlfriend Audrey. Audrey Junior begins speaking and demands to be fed human blood and flesh, convincing Seymour to kill a railroad detective, a sadistic dentist and a trollop. Seymour's guilt over the deaths forces him to confront Audrey Junior in a final confrontation.


==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===
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* This film pairs quite nicely with ''A Bucket of Blood'' (1959) as two films that seem to satire Roger Corman's exeriences with film-making:  the two films share the same musical score, much of the same cast, and similar themes of inept creators driven to self-destruction by their art.
 

===Associated Mythos Elements===
* race:  Audrey Jr. (Audrey II in the remake), a talking plant from another world
* location:  "Skid Row"
** Mushnick's Florist, Prop. Gravis Mushnick
** The Yellow Door Cafe coffee house
** Skid Row Police, Homicide Dept.: Sgt. Joe Fink and Det. Frank Stoolie
** Dentist, Dr. Phoebus Farb
** Hotels:  Hotel Panama, Southern Hotel
** Skid Row Seminary
** Good News Mission
** Pioneer Cafe


===Keeper Notes===
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* A team of investigators track a handful of seemingly unrelated missing persons cases to a terrified and socially awkward young man with a green thumb and a dark secret growing in his basement....


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