History Film / LittleShopOfHorrors

* AnswerCut: "What kind of professional rides a motorcycle and wears a black leather jacket?" Cue [[Creator/SteveMartin Orin Scrivello, DDS.]]
** Gets invoked again when Seymour asks Audrey II who does he know that deserves to be chopped up and fed to a hungry plant. Audrey II shows him out the window Orin abusing (the human) Audrey.

''Little Shop of Horrors'' is a 1986 film adaptation of [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors the musical of the same name]], which was in turn loosely adapted from [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors the original 1960 film]], itself loosely based on the short story "Green Thoughts" by John Collier. It starred Creator/RickMoranis in his [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative last singing role]], which [[LongRunner in turn]] inspired a [[RecursiveAdaptation revival of the musical]]. It is Creator/FrankOz's first film as a solo director (he'd co-directed his previous films with Creator/JimHenson) and his first outside of the [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]] label, and would start his line of subsequent comedy films. It's also Howard Ashman's only credit as a screenwriter.

* BerserkButton: Don't hurt Audrey in front of Seymour.
-->'''Seymour:''' ''(singing)'' You need blood and he's got ''more'' than enough!

* SaveTheVillain: Seymour saves Audrey II from starvation with drops of his own blood. (''Grow for Me'')

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Of a musical sort. The soundtrack featured the extended versions of "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space" and "The Meek Shall Inherit" and the completely excised "Don't Feed the Plants", causing confusion for people who only saw the original ending. Oddly, "Subsequent To The Events You Have Just Witnessed" was not on the soundtrack.

* ObviouslyNotFine: In the original ending, Audrey II bit hard on Audrey having tried to eat her, but Seymour pries her out (barely) and Seymour asks if she's okay. Audrey answers "Yes", [[spoiler: except she can barely maintain herself from the bite and is quickly dying before Seymour's eyes]].

-->'''Audrey II:''' ''(singing)'' He's got your number now…

** Mushnik. He was a [[BadBoss horrible boss]] to Seymour, then he blackmailed Seymour to leave town and hand over all the fame and fortune the plant can bring or else he'd "expose" Seymour to the police as Orin's murderer, though all Mushnik gets in the end is the honor of being Audrey II's dinner.

In 1991 (five years after the films release) The film receved a animated television series on Fox Kids titled ''WesternAnimation/LittleShop'' that lasted for 13 episodes. And sadly no, [[LighterAndSofter the plant doesn't eat blood]].

* FreezeFrameBonus: Orin runs his...um, dental practice from [[Film/NineteenEightyFour Room 101]].

''Little Shop of Horrors'' is a 1986 film adaptation of [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors the musical of the same name]], which was in turn loosely adapted from [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors the original 1960 film]], itself loosely based on the book ''Green Thoughts''. It starred Creator/RickMoranis in his [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative last singing role]], which [[LongRunner in turn]] inspired a [[RecursiveAdaptation revival of the musical]]. It is Creator/FrankOz's first film as a solo director (he'd co-directed his previous films with Creator/JimHenson) and his first outside of the [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]] label, and would start his line of subsequent comedy films. It's also Howard Ashman's only credit as a screenwriter.

In 1991 (five years after the films release) The film receved a animated television series on Fox Kids titled ''WesternAnimation/LittleShop'' that lasted for 13 episodes. And sadly no, [[LighterAndSofter The plant doesn't eat blood]].

* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler: Orin, when he asphyxiates in his broken nitrous oxide mask.)

* MayDecemberRomance: Audrey apparently considers herself and Seymour to be this, calling herself "his December bride." Either she's being hyperbolic about their age gap or she looks ''very'' good for her age.
** Not actually an age reference, but to the TV show ''December Bride''. The next line refers to ''[[Series/FatherKnowsBest Father Knows Best]]''.

** Parodied with the original ending, where "THE END" is shown, but then a question mark is added to it... and then an exclamation mark and another question mark, as if to convey pure bafflement. [[spoiler:Then an Audrey II offspring ''breaks through it.'']]

* TheEndOrIsIt: The closing shot of the theatrical cut reveals [[spoiler: a certain strange and interesting plant outside Seymour and Audrey's garden, and then it smiles...]]

* LighterAndSofter: See DarkerAndEdgier and DarkReprise in the play version. It manages to contain ''all these aspects'' in its songs, but somehow makes it lighthearted simply by changing the ending and some of the songs.

* JumpScare: To the uninitiated, some parts of the KillEmAll Ending could be this.

* {{Recut}}: The Blu-ray reissue includes a version of the movie with the original KillEmAll ending fully restored.

* [[KillEmAll Eat 'Em All]]: In the Director's Cut ending, the plants destroy cities going around snatching and eating humans. The plants will undoubtedly eat up all the adults, and possibly use the children like farm livestock to keep them as a food source.

On December 7, 2016, it was [[http://deadline.com/2016/12/little-shop-of-horrors-greg-berlanti-warner-bros-musical-movie-matthew-robinson-1201866086/ announced]] that Creator/WarnerBros had hired Creator/GregBerlanti[[note]]director of ''Life As We Know It'', and producer for the "Series/ArrowVerse" and other [[Creator/TheCW CW]] shows[[/note]] to direct a remake, to be written by Matthew Robinson.

* TheSociopath: If it weren't for his [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother]], Orin would very likely be one, considering he started off harming animals as a child (one of the early signs of being a sociopath) and committing such acts without any shame, and he shows none. As it is, he's a textbook BastardBoyfriend and a sadist.