1960 · comedy · horror · cult
The Little Shop of Horrors
Directed by Roger Corman1h 13m1960
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
Our read: The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · horror · cult entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
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