This was my contribution to the Welcome Home Halloween colouring book zine!! They're watching the 60s Little Shop Of Horrors. Why are they all so scared?? It's a funny movie!

Wally seems to think so at least!!

anyway erm, here's 60's seymour

Seymour is the most pathetic cringefail loser character ever, he canonically stabs a man to death and then reveals that he doesn’t know what a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is and slips on a banana peel <3

Lmaoo guys Little Shop Of Horrors Audrey Two appeared during the total eclipse of the sun…

Better watch out.

Little Shop of Horrors takes place sometime in the early 60s, but it's hard to pin down the exact year. A radio broadcast mentions President Kennedy, so that narrows it down to 1961, 1962, or 1963. During the song Feed Me (Git It), one of the offers Audrey II waves in Seymour's face is a "guest spot on Jack Paar." Jack Paar hosted the Tonight Show from July 29, 1957 to March 30, 1962. The opening line of the movie says that the events took place on the 23rd day of the month of September, so if we assume Jack Paar was still on the air when Audrey II mentioned him, then 1962 and 1963 are off the table, meaning is has to be 1961, right? Well, after Seymour kills Mr. Mushnik allows Audrey II to kill Mr. Mushnik, we get a short montage of offers and contracts and magazine covers to establish that Seymour's star is rising. One of the covers is a TV Guide for the week of October 6 - 12.

October 6th was a Sunday in 1963, not 1961, so that complicated things until I googled existing TV Guides and learned that they don't start the week on Sunday, but Saturday instead.

April 23 - 29, 1983 (Saturday to Friday) December 27, 1980 - January 2, 1981 (Saturday to Friday)

October 6 - 12 was a Saturday to Friday in 1962.

If we assume Audrey II just pulled the first famous talkshow host name it could think of regardless of whether or not he was still on the air, then 1962 remains our best bet because in the director's cut ending where the plants take over the world there's one shot of Audrey II bursting through a movie theater marquee advertising Jason and the Argonauts, a Ray Harryhausen movie which premiered June 13, 1963.

Little Shop of Horrors starts on September 23, 1962.

Seymour gets his face on the cover of Life and the TV Guide the following month.

Audrey II would hit store shelves just in time for Christmas, spreading around the country faster than hula hoops and the Twist, taking over the world sometime in the new year.

This is so sad.

Roger Corman launched the careers of directors like James Cameron and Ron Howard, who started making cheap B-movies, and ended up being big names on their own right.

He's influenced cinema more than anyone could've given him credit for.

Thank you Mr. Corman. Thank you Roger. We will always remember you, and your wonderfully cheesy movies.

Adding her to the lore

finished six fanarts <3

It doesn't look super great but I think it turned out alright :>

One Dress a Day Challenge

May: Purple Redux

Little Shop of Horrors / Tichina Arnold as Crystal, Tisha Campbell as Chiffon, and Michelle Weeks as Ronette

Crystal, Chiffon, and Ronette serve as the "Greek chorus" for this movie, wearing an array of classic 1960s chic outfits. Here they have matching lavender sheath dresses with high, ribbed waistbands, lilac gloves, and multi-strand pearl necklaces.

To highlight the fact that their commentary takes place in another dimension, so to speak, we also see these characters briefly as they appear in the "real world":

SUMMARY: A simple-minded florist places a very extraordinary exotic plant in display to gain attraction to the shop, only to find out about its peculiar growing method.

While the original movie is not as good as its successor, mod Sus still thinks it's very fun and delightful silly little movie, baby's first "horror" movie.

Little Shop of Horrors

The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

As I often say, horror comedies are not easy to do. And for as cheap and quickly thrown together as this movie is, it manages to strike an almost perfect balance between the two. It never feels like they're trying to be funny, just being funny, delivering off-beat remarks in a deadpan fashion that would later be echoed in films like Airplane. If you're a fan of the musical version—or just the works of Roger Corman—this darker version of the story is defiantly something that will be worth checking out.

7/10

Round 1B, Match Eight: Audrey II (Little Shop of Horrors) vs. Norman Bates (Psycho)

PROPAGANDA FOR AUDREY II:

"Even tho the media Audrey II comes from is mainly a comedy, it's also a horror!! Audrey II is a carnivorous plant from outer space who wants to take over the planet and WINS! how many villains can say that? Audrey II is a badass and a winner, incredibly funny and pretty cute as far as giant evil plants can be :)"

PROPAGANDA FOR NORMAN BATES:

"The ultimate toxic mama's boy. So beaten down by his mother that he becomes her after killing her and her boyfriend. Also one of the all-time greatest acting performances ever by Anthony Perkins. The way he starts by making Norman seem sympathetic and almost cute but gradually and perfect[l]y drops the facade just enough at certain times. Beautiful."

"Anthony Perkins is giving such an insanely good performance in this. He's sympathetic and understandable but still terrifying. Truly one of the greats"

How do I cope with the fact that the two canons of little shop of horrors write Seymour as having either:

A. No mom, he’s an orphan taken in by Mushnik

Or

B. An apartment he shares with his mom, who obsesses over health and different medical conditions to fuel her alcohol addiction what

Dick Miller in horror movies

Which version of this do you prefer?