The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.2/10   

Director:

Roger Corman

Guionista:

Charles B. Griffith (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

14 septiembre 1960 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Horror

Frase comercial:

The funniest picture this year!

Plot:

A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's a bloodthirsty plant, forcing him to kill to feed it.

Plot Keywords:

Plant | Flower | Black Comedy | Attacked By Plant | Hit By Train

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Plant food!

Reparto

Jonathan Haze	...	Seymour Krelboin
Jackie Joseph	...	Audrey Fulquard
Mel Welles	...	Gravis Mushnik
Dick Miller	...	Burson Fouch
Myrtle Vail	...	Winifred Krelboin
Karyn Kupcinet	...	Teenage girl (as Tammy Windsor)
Toby Michaels	...	Teenage girl
Leola Wendorff	...	Siddie Shiva
Lynn Storey	...	Mrs. Hortense Feuchtwanger (Society of Silent Flower Observers of Southern California)
Wally Campo	...	Det. Sgt .Joe Fink / Narrator
Jack Warford	...	Det. Frank Stoolie
Meri Welles	...	Leonora Clyde (as Merri Welles)
John Herman Shaner	...	Dr. Phoebus Farb (as John Shaner)
Jack Nicholson	...	Wilbur Force
Dodie Drake	...	Waitress

También conocida como:

The Passionate People Eater (USA) (working title)
La pequeña tienda de los horrores (Spain) (DVD title) [es]
La tienda de los horrores (Spain) [es]
La tiendita del horror (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

70 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Finland:S (1998) | UK:A (theatrical rating) (1973) | Finland:K-11 (DVD rating) (2007) | Ireland:PG | Argentina:16 | Australia:PG | UK:PG | USA:Unrated

Locaciones de Filmación:

Chaplin Studios - 1416 N. La Brea Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

Santa Clara Productions

Trivialidades:

Much of the comical dialog between Mel Welles and Dick Miller was ad-libbed.

Errores:

Errores cometidos por los personajes (posiblemente errores deliberados por los cineastas): The name of the flower shop owner is Gravis Mushnik, but the shop sign says "Mushnick's".

Citas:

Audry Fulquard: Why don't you give him a chance to resurrect himself?
Gravis Mushnik: I give him chance to quit!
Seymour Krelboin: I ain't gonna quit!
Gravis Mushnik: You're a brave boy, you're fired.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en "Svengoolie: The Little Shop of Horrors (Colorized Version)" (2004)

Plant food!

I remember seeing this on a weekly television show called Chiller, when I was in high school. It was one of those local celebrity things, with an emcee presiding over whatever horror movies were in the library of that particular station. I realized quickly, what an offbeat flick this was. It was utterly hilarious with its moments of masochism, the man eating plant, Audrey one and two, and all the other things that Seymour must deal with just to keep going. The plant controls him and it is a hilarious plant. The black and white neutral staging of the plant is so much better than the flashiness of the musical (though I do like some of those songs). The smallness of this film is what helps make it work. Everyone is a caricature. Jack Nicholson's proudest moment. No wonder he is such a wack, spending all that time in his formative years with Roger Corman. The acting works because it is a period piece. No matter how much we try to reproduce the fifties, it always falls short of just seeing the fifties. It's like Dragnet without the strange suits and the slang of the time. It's just more honest because they weren't trying to reproduce it. I haven't watched this in some time, so I think I'll leave my computer and sit down and watch it again.