LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - Bijou After Hours

Showings

Ped Mall -Scene 1 Sat, Oct 11, 2014 11:00 PM
Film Info
Rating:PG-13
Runtime:94 mins
Director:Frank Oz
Year Released:1986
Production Country:USA

Description

Presented as part of Bijou After Hours, a late-night film series featuring cult classics, fan favorites and modern genre films.

Free admission for UI students with valid ID. $5 for general public admission. Tickets available at the door only.

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

"This wild and witty musical is great fun." --Geoff Andrew, Time Out

It started as a 1960 Roger Corman horror comedy, filmed in two days; it then inspired a lavish 1982 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. Finally in 1986, Little Shop of Horrors (1960) graduated into a multimillion-dollar, all-star film musical. Rick Moranis plays nebbishy Seymour Krelborn, who works in a rundown flower shop on Skid Row. While his boss (Vincent Gardenia) bemoans the lack of business, Seymour seeks a way of bringing the shop -- and himself -- fame and fortune. He purchases a strange plant from an even stranger oriental street vendor (Vincent Wong), naming the plant after his girlfriend Audrey (Ellen Greene, one of the few carry-overs from the Broadway version). Gradually, Seymour learns to his horror that "Audrey II" (given the voice of R&B performer Levi Stubbs) craves blood and flesh. With each of Audrey II's "FEEED MEEE"s, Seymour must scare up human food to satisfy the plant's appetite. (Rovi).