History Film / TheLittleShopOfHorrors

* TooDumbToLive: Seymour. [[spoiler: It's what turns him into a murderer in the first place, and it's how the film ends. Seymour never even tried feeding Audrey Jr. animal blood, instead he quickly resorts to feeding it human body parts and later corpses, hoping that each time would be the last. Near the end of the film, he decides the best way to kill Audrey Jr. is to ''climb into its mouth and start stabbing it with a knife''. Naturally, he gets eaten.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Seymour. [[spoiler: It's what turns him into a murderer in the first place, and it's how the film ends. Seymour never even tried feeding the plant animal blood. Later, he decides the best way to kill Audrey Jr. is to ''climb into its mouth and start stabbing it with a knife''. Naturally, he gets eaten.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Seymour. [[spoiler: It's what turns him into a murderer in the first place, and it's how the film ends. Unlike the [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors later]] [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors adaptations]], in this version, the plant never expressed a [[ImAHumanitarian preference for humans]], it [[NonMaliciousMonster just wanted food]]. Seymour never even tried feeding it animal blood. Later, he decides the best way to kill Audrey Jr. is to ''climb into its mouth and start stabbing it with a knife''. Naturally, he gets eaten.]]

* CatchPhrase:

* IDidntMeanToKillHim: [[spoiler:The final line, a repeat of Seymour's Catch Phrase]].

* TheKlutz: Seymour Krelboin. He regularly bumps and trips over things at his work, which would have cost him his job if it were not for the success of Audrey Jr., and his {{Catchphrase}} is "I didn't mean it".

[[AdaptationDisplacement Often confused]] with [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors the 1980s musical that it inspired]], ''The Little Shop of Horrors'' is a low-budget 1960 [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror comedy horror]] film, directed by Creator/RogerCorman and written by Charles Griffith. The rather loose plot concerns a bumbling florist's assistant named Seymour Krelboin (Jonathan Haze), whose plant cross-breeding experiments accidentally create a talking plant with hypnotic powers that feeds on human blood.

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* AllJewsAreCheapskates: One scene features Mr. Mushnick grumbling about the prices at a resturaunt. [[spoiler:After accidentally walking in on Seymour feeding Audrey Jr. body parts, he quickly changes his tune and buys all the alcohol on the menu.]]

* PasteEater: Burson Fouch buys flowers from the shop as take-out meals, and furthermore is something of an epicure, having eaten at florist shops all over the country. He even sees Audrey Jr. as a potential food item (complaining that it looks "stale"). When he finally leaves it's because his wife is making gardenias for dinner.
* {{Planimal}}: Audrey, Jr. is a plant, but has vocal chords and apparently, a full digestive system in its stalk.

Since this movie is in the public domain, you can watch it for free or download it from a bunch of sources, including [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/201832/the-little-shop-of-horrors Hulu,]] [[http://www.archive.org/details/The_Little_Shop_of_Horrors_60 Internet Archive]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnnTgacQo7w YouTube.]]

Years later, the movie was adapted into [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors a stage musical by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken]], itself turned into [[Film/LittleShopofHorrors a feature of its own directed by Frank Oz]]. The film and/or musical also probably served as partial inspiration for the plant in Creator/StephenKing's ''The Plant''. Probably the biggest impact this movie had on pop culture? The Piranha Plants in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros''.

--->'''Mrs. Krelboin:''' She'll take you off to some shady sanitarium, and leave me to chiropractors and faith healers. I know when I'm not wanted.\\

* TooDumbToLive: Seymour. [[spoiler: It's what turns him into a murderer in the first place, and it's how the film ends; he decides the best way to kill Audrey Jr. is to ''climb into its mouth and start stabbing it with a knife''. Naturally, he gets eaten.]]

* CollectibleCardGame: ''Attic Cards'' had a Kickstarter funded set of 69 cards made

'''Mr. Mushnick:''' It is finger of speech!

** Mushnik: "Excellent!"

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Mushnik, after he catches Seymour [[spoiler:feeding body parts to the plant]].
-->'''Mr. Mushnik:''' I've got to get drunk, now!

%%* {{Malaproper}}: Both Audrey and Mr. Mushnik.

* NoSell: Mister Mushnik is unaffected by the plant's demands to be fed and simply tells it to shut up.

%%* ThirdPersonPerson: Gravis Mushnik.

* HarmlessVillain: Audrey Jr. can really only do two things; eat and talk. While he does display slight hypnotism powers, Seymour still has to do most of the heavy lifting.

* ManEatingPlant: Audrey Jr., being the predecessor to one of the most famous ones, eats several people over the course of the film. [[spoiler:He even ends the film with a slightly higher count than Audrey II, with 5 eaten compared to II’s four, ending number notwithstanding.]]

%%* ManEatingPlant: Audrey Jr.

%%* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Audrey Junior's hypnotic ability.

* OffscreenTeleportation: Leonora Clyde, the very persistent call girl going after Seymour, seems to do this often.

%%* AllJewsAreCheapskates

%%* BrainBleach
%%-->'''Mr. Mushnik:''' I've got to get drunk, now!

%%* TheKlutz: Seymour Krelboin.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: At the film's ending, Audrey Jr. puts forth a flower with Seymour's face in it, with Seymour then pitifully wailing "I didn't mean it!" Implying he's still ''alive and conscious'' inside of Audrey Jr.]]

* GreedyJew: The shop owner Gravis Mushnick is greedy, has a name that sounds like a Yiddish word, and speaks with a noticeable Yiddish accent, which got the film accused of antisemitism. The actor, Mel Welles, who is himself Jewish, countered that he came up with the accent on his own.

Since this movie is in the public domain, you can watch it for free or download it from a bunch of sources, including [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/201832/the-little-shop-of-horrors Hulu,]] [[http://www.archive.org/details/The_Little_Shop_of_Horrors_60 Internet Archive]] and [[https://youtu.be/fzW6yz_Ow_Y YouTube.]]

Since this movie is in the public domain, you can watch it for free or download it from a bunch of sources, including [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/201832/the-little-shop-of-horrors Hulu]], [[http://www.archive.org/details/The_Little_Shop_of_Horrors_60 Internet Archive]] and [[https://youtu.be/fzW6yz_Ow_Y YouTube]].

** Played straight with Seymour and his hypochondriac mother when he decides to ask Audrey to marry him and she dissuades him with another one of her fits:
--->'''Mrs. Krelboin:''' She'll take you off to some shady sanitarium, and leave me to chiropractors and faith healers. I know when I'm not wanted.\\
'''Seymour:''' ''[after his mom kicks him to the floor]'' Aw gee, ma!\\
'''Mrs. Krelboin:''' [[LampshadeHanging Don't feel sorry for me!]] I'll just find a nice wet alley somewhere and curl up and wait for the end.

* JewishMother: Winifred Krelboin, Seymour's hypochondriac mother.

* BigEater: Audrey, Jr., [[ImAHumanitarian of people]].

--> '''Mushnick''': ''Who'' would you like to [[IAmAHumanitarian have]] tonight?
--> '''Audrey Jr.''': You look fat enough.

-->'''Audrey''': Don't feel sad, Seymour.\\
'''Seymour''': [[LampshadeHanging Don't waste your pity on me, Audrey, I'm not worth it.]]\\
'''Audrey''': Who says you're not?\\
'''Seymour''': Everybody.\\
'''Audrey''': Yeah, I know. But I think you're a fine [[{{Malaproper}} figurative of a man...]] and I know that Audrey Jr. will be the sweetest thing in the whole wide world.

-->'''Mrs. Krelboin''': She'll take you off to some shady sanitarium, and leave me to chiropractors and faith healers. I know when I'm not wanted.\\
'''Seymour''' [''after his mom kicks him to the floor'']: Aw gee, ma!\\
'''Mrs. Krelboin''': [[LampshadeHanging Don't feel sorry for me!]] I'll just find a nice wet alley somewhere and curl up and wait for the end.

* TheKlutz: Seymour Krelboin.

* ManEatingPlant: Audrey Jr.

-->'''Winifred Krelboin''': Did you stop at Dr. Mallard's and get the results from that test?\\
'''Seymour''': Yeah, he said there's nothing wrong with you.\\
'''Winifred''': Oh, not Dr. Mallard; he's one doctor I thought would tell the truth!\\
'''Seymour''': He said you should be playing fullback for the Rams.\\
'''Winifred''': He wants me dead! I'll bet he's assistant coroner.

* ToServeMan: [[spoiler:Audrey, Jr.]]'s preferred fare.

[[AdaptationDisplacement Often confused]] with [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors the 1980s musical that it inspired]], ''The Little Shop of Horrors'' is a low-budget [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror comedy horror]] film directed by Creator/RogerCorman, released in 1960. The rather loose plot concerns a bumbling florist's assistant named Seymour Krelboin (Jonathan Haze), whose plant cross-breeding experiments accidentally create a talking plant with hypnotic powers that feeds on human blood.

[[AdaptationDisplacement Often confused]] with [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors the 1980s musical that it inspired]], ''The Little Shop of Horrors'' is a low-budget [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror Comedy Horror]] movie directed by Creator/RogerCorman, released in 1960. The rather loose plot concerns a bumbling florist's assistant named Seymour Krelboin (Jonathan Haze), whose plant cross-breeding experiments accidentally create a talking plant with hypnotic powers that feeds on human blood.

[[AdaptationDisplacement Often confused]] with [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors the 1980s musical that it inspired]], ''The Little Shop of Horrors'' is a low-budget [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror Comedy Horror]] movie directed by Creator/RogerCorman, released in 1960. The rather loose plot concerns a bumbling florist's assistant named Seymour Krelborn (Jonathan Haze), whose plant cross-breeding experiments accidentally create a talking plant with hypnotic powers that feeds on human blood.

[[AdaptationDisplacement Often confused]] with [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors the 1980s musical that it inspired]], ''The Little Shop of Horrors'' is a low-budget [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror Comedy Horror]] movie by Creator/RogerCorman, released in 1960. The rather loose plot concerns a bumbling florist's assistant whose plant cross-breeding experiments accidentally create a talking plant with hypnotic powers that feeds on human blood.