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List Price: $14.95 | | Label: Legend Films, Inc.
Salesrank: 51329
Released: June 27, 2006 |
| Our Price: $3.50 |
| Used Price: $3.09 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
King of the B's director Roger Corman shot this crazy beat-era classic in a mere two days but it packs plenty of inspired lunacy and clever bits in its 70-minute running time. Jonathan Haze stars as clumsy assistant florist Seymour who saves his job in Mr. Mushnik's skid-row flower shop when he brings in a unique man-eating plant. The problem is it's a very hungry plant; every night it opens its huge jaws and demands to be fed forcing poor Seymour to take to the street in search of victims lest he disappoint his boss and his adoring girlfriend Audrey (Jackie Joseph). From a zingy script by Charles Griffith this hilarious black comedy overflows with great ideas and characters: Corman regular Dick Miller plays a hipster who eats flowers and a very young Jack Nicholson takes a memorable turn as a masochistic dental patient. DRAGNET-style detective Joe Fink (Wally Campo) narrates as he slowly begins to track the killer down. This oft-revived favorite still generates plenty of laughs and chills deserving of repeat viewings. A musical version debuted off-Broadway in 1982 and led to a film starring Rick Moranis and Steve Martin.System Requirements:Running Time 70 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 796019794640 Manufacturer No: 79464
Description of The Little Shop of Horrors:
Hilarious, cheapie black comedy from 1960 that may be the best film by B-picture master Roger Corman, other than Bucket of Blood, made about the same time with the same writer, Charles Griffith. Seymour (Jonathan Haze) is an assistant in a skid-row flower shop who's on the point of losing his job when the unusual plant he's developed turns the store into a major attraction. The only problem is that the plant needs human blood to live, all the while crying, "Feed me! FEED ME!" Luckily, Seymour causes a series of inadvertent deaths that more than make up for the food shortage. Jack Nicholson provides a comic sidebar as a nutjob masochist visiting a dentist's office. Giggling and wild-eyed from the same impulse that might lead others to read scandal sheets, he can be seen in the dentist's waiting room reading aloud from Pain magazine. Famous for having the shortest shooting schedule on record (two days and a night), The Little Shop of Horrors spawned an off-Broadway musical that was in turn made into a successful film in 1986, starring Rick Moranis and Steve Martin. It was in just this quick-shoot atmosphere that Corman nurtured the careers of many of America's most celebrated film directors; this little shop of honors included Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, and Jonathan Demme. The DVD has optional Japanese subtitles, very generous bios of the stars and filmmakers, and a clean, crisp transfer. --Jim Gay
The Little Shop of Horrors Reviews:
***** BEST PRINT OUT ON THIS MOVIE ***** 
2009-10-22 - Believe me, ive had several different copies of this movie,
the LEGEND FILMS version is the sharpest, most vivid print ive ever seen, i was not prepared
for such a nice print, im glad i made the purchase which was priced very reasonable, the quality was so good i felt like i was seeing it for the first time, things i never noticed in the background were now visible,the sound was also excellent,from what im hearing it has something to do with the master being a 35mm film. you wont regret buying this version whether you want color or black and white. THANK YOU LEGEND FILMS !!!
MORE GARBAGE FROM LEGEND!!!!! 
2009-06-19 - I was recently unfortunate enough to acquire 2 of Legend's colorized discs, Little Shop being one. Even though Little Shop was colorized(which is bad enough), I thought the so-called restored B/W version might be good to have. This so-called restored version had a major splice in dialogue in the scene where Jack Nicholson comes into the dentist's office. I have a dollar store version where that scene is intact. So much for Legend's restoration. This shows how little they think of their customers. The best thing all-around would be for Legend to be put out of business for this and their multilation of other films. Legend insults the consumer and the filmmakers with their colorization and editing of films. Legend=Rampant Incompetance.
Campy B Movie 
2009-05-29 - If you like the movie with Rick Moranis this original is a must see. Extremely campy and done in two days makes it even more fun.
Excellent version!! Awesome transfer of unique movie!! 
2009-03-13 - I own this Eureka region 2 version of the 1960 movie "The Little Shop of Horrors" and the video is very good quality!! I was so impressed with this version that I stopped looking for the definitive version.(I considered this good enough, and I'm pretty picky!!) The only reason I'm giving it 4 instead of 5 stars is because there are no extras. I just wanted to let people know. I don't write movie reviews on this site, but the movie is a very unique and funny early 60's classic and my previous attempts at finding a good version failed. If you're interested in my review of the movie look at IMDB under dwpollar.
Still Unique Even After All These Years
2009-03-13 - Here's a movie that's gone from cult classic to just plain classic. For me, it's one of the few "cult classics" I saw when it was released and then first shown on television. I loved it then, and I love it now, almost 50 years later!
Forget the musical re-make made in the 1980s. It couldn't hold a candle to the original.
"Original" is what this is, too. and nowadays, it's great to have it on DVD in which the audio is clear and the picture pretty sharp.
I have always particularly enjoyed the many humorous lines delivered by Mel Welles, who plays the flower shop owner. He is the real comedian of the cast, although the plant does quite well as do the two leads played by Jonathan Haze and Jackie Joseph. The latter two are a little more subtle in their comedy.
All the characters in here are totally whacked, from Haze's hypochondriac mother to Dick Miller's flower-eating character to the Jewish mother who always has a dead relative to moan about and to the dentist and his patient. The latter, of course, is Jack Nicholson, making his movie debut and looking about 16 years old.
In the end, though, what one remembers most is the plant demanding, over and over, to "Feeeeeed me!!"
For that, the plant and the film never fail to make me laugh.
