Films like The Little Shop of Horrors.

The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) reads as Warm, breathless, measured comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

A Bucket of Blood (1959) poster
1. A Bucket of Blood1959

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Greetings (1968) poster
2. Greetings1968

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) poster
3. What's Up, Tiger Lily?1966

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972) poster
4. Get to Know Your Rabbit1972

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bananas (1971) poster
5. Bananas1971

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

All These Women (1964) poster
6. All These Women1964

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (1972) poster
7. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex1972

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Man Who Quit Smoking (1972) poster
8. The Man Who Quit Smoking1972

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965) poster
9. The Knack ...and How to Get It1965

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Take the Money and Run (1969) poster
10. Take the Money and Run1969

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dolemite (1975) poster
11. Dolemite1975

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Diamond 33 (1967) poster
12. Diamond 331967

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are The Little Shop of Horrors’s neighbours — where are yours?

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