History Trivia / TheLittleShopOfHorrors

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Corman admitted that he and Griffith were both drunk when they came up with the idea of a ManEatingPlant.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Corman admitted that he and Griffith were both drunk when they came up with the idea of a ManEatingPlant.

* SpiritualAdaptation: Usually thought to be inspired by John Collier's short story, ''Green Thoughts'' which has been suggested was inspired by [[Creator/ArthurCClarke Arthur C. Clarke's]] ''The Reluctant Orchid''. Itself based in the Creator/HGWells story, ''The Flowering Of The Strange Orchid''.

* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/JackNicholson wanted to play Seymour and auditioned for the part, but lost to Jonathan Haze. He was instead cast as Wilbur Haze.

* ProductionPosse: Jonathan Haze ([[Film/VikingWomenAndTheSeaSerpent He's a Grimold warrior!]]) and Dick Miller were Roger Corman regulars. Screenwriter Charles B. Griffin was also a frequent Corman collaborator.

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** Charles B. Griffith's first script was about a vampire music critic but when Corman rejected it; he also wrote one about a salad chef who killed people and served them in his restaurant, but the Hays Code nixed this.
* WorkingTitle;

** Corman originally wanted this to be a detective movie. Seymour and his mother were to be called Irish and Iris Eye. Audrey would have been called "Oriole Olive" and Nancy Kulo was the most likely person to play her. Jonathan Haze was set to play a character called "Archie Aroma" and Mel Elle's would have played "Draco Cardala". Creator/JackNicholson would have played a guy called "Jocko".
** Charles B. Griffith's first script was about a vampire music critic but when Corman rejected it, he wrote one about a salad chef who killed people and served them in his restaurant but the Hays Code nixed this.

* ChristmasRushed: There are competing stories for the reason why the product was so rushed. One legend says that Corman did it to win a bet that he couldn't complete a movie in that time. A more likely story is that Corman was trying to squeeze in one more film before a new law on actor residuals would take effect.

** Griffith's first script was about a vampire music critic but when Corman rejected it, he wrote one about a salad chef who killed people and served them in his restaurant but the Hays Code nixed this.

* WorkingTitle: Was produced under the title, ''The Passionate People Eater''.

** Corman originally wanted this to be a detective movie. Seymour and his mother were to be called Irish and Iris Eye. Audrey would have been called Oriole Olive and Nancy Kulo was the most likely person to play her. Creator/JackNicholson would have played a guy called Jocko.

* ExecutiveMeddling: If it weren't for the Hays Code, this movie would have been about a chef murdering people and serving them in a restaurant.

* ProductionPosse: Jonathan Haze ([[Film/VikingWomenAndTheSeaSerpent He's a Grimold warrior!]]) and Dick Miller were Roger Corman regulars.
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: As mentioned on the main page, Roger Corman wrote and filmed the movie in 48 consecutive hours when he was given ''carte blanche'' to use a pre-existing set for whatever he wanted for two days before it got scrapped.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: As mentioned on the main page, Roger Corman wrote and filmed the movie in 48 consecutive hours when he was given cart blanch to use a pre-existing set for whatever he wanted for two days before it got scrapped.

* ProductionPosse: Jonathan Haze ([[Film/VikingWomenAndTheSeaSerpent He's a Grimold warrior!]]) and Dick Miller were Roger Corman regulars.

* HeyItsThatGuy: That's a young Jack Nicholson as Wilbur Force.

* HeyItsThatGuy: That's a young Jack Nicholson as Wilbur Force.

* HeyItsThatGuy: That's a young Jack Nicholson as Wilbur Force in the 1960's ''The Little Shop of Horrors''.