http://www.youtube.com/v/SVsgpTaBhSY?hl=en_US&Number 12 : Little Shop of Horrors(71 points on 6 of 12 lists. Top Vote #10 by Routing Protocols)Synopsis:In 1960s Los Angeles, a young man, Seymour, discovers a strange plant after a mysterious unexplained total eclipse of the sun. He works at Mushnik's Skid Row Florists along with the cranky Mr. Mushnik and Audrey, whom Seymour pines after. Seymour names the new plant after her, but it fails to grow, at least until Seymour feeds it blood, which causes it to thrive.
As folks flock to the shop to see the strange plant, Audrey meets with her abusive boyfriend, the abusive dentist Orin. Despairing, Seymour is startled to hear the plant talk, requesting more blood. Seymour decides to kill Orin and feed him to Audrey II. Seymour loses his nerve, but Orin accidentally dies anyway. The plant grows even bigger and Seymour and Audrey admit their feeling for each other. Meanwhile, Mr. Mushnik realizes that Seymour had something to do with Orin's disappearance and confronts him, but Audrey II devours him. As Seymour prepares to give a speech to Life magazine, Audrey approaches the plant, intending to water it, but Audrey II attacks and attempts to devour her. Seymour rushes to her rescue, freeing her but not before she is mortally wounded. She passes away in Seymour's arms, and he feeds her to Audrey II so that they may always be together. He then realizes that the plant intends to conquer the world and attacks it with a machete, but is eaten. The owner of the World Botanic Society then arrives, doesn't find Seymour and asks the chorus to take some plant cuttings so that he may sell them across America. As they do so, the chorus relate that the cuttings grew across America, imploring people to feed them to gain fame and fortune. And Audrey II sprout new flowers, which have the faces of Seymour, Orin, Audrey and Mr. Mushnik which then implore the audience to never feed the plants as the audience itself is threatened by the alien plant...
Memorable Songs:"Suddenly Seymour", "Skid Row" , "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space", "Dentist!" are all quite popular. And Family Guy used "Somewhere That's Green" for a particularly goofy cut-away scene.
Awards:Nothing major, although Mean Green Mother was nominated for an Oscar.
Trivia Notes: The musical differs from both the 1986 film and the 1960 film. In the Corman version, Mushnik and Audrey survive the plant, which really only eats Seymour and Orin, and Seymour has a hypochondriac mother, rather than being an orphan. Also, the plant isn't an alien, just a weird plant.
In the 1986 film, Audrey is threatened by the plant, but Seymour manages to kill the creature with electricity. And then he and Audrey head to the suburbs, where a smaller version of Audrey II is planted in the yard.... It was originally filmed with the same ending as the theater version, but was re-edited after the darker ending testing very poorly.
In 1991, Fox turned the series into a Saturday Morning cartoon show, with Audrey and Seymour as teens and the plant as less man-eating. Yeah. Not the brightest decision to make there.
This is also the only film on the list to be riffed, in some form, by Rifftrax. Or is it?
Coming Soon:Third time's the charm....