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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Little Shop of
Horrors is the 1986 Black Comedy musical film adaptation of the
off-Broadway musical comedy of the same name by composer Alan Menken and
writer Howard Ashman, about a nerdy florist shop worker who raises a
vicious plant that feeds on human blood. Menken and Ashman's
off-Broadway musical was based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film
The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman. The film was
directed by Frank Oz, and stars Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, and the
voice of Levi Stubbs as the plant. Ashman wrote the film's screenplay,
his first and only one before his death in 1991. Little Shop of Horrors
was shot on the Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage at the Pinewood Studios in
England, where a "downtown" set, complete with overhead train track, was
constructed. The film was produced on a budget of US$30 million, in
contrast to the original 1960 film, which, according to Roger Corman,
only cost $30,000. The film's original 23-minute ending, based on the
musical's ending, was rewritten and reshot after receiving negative
reviews from test audiences and has never been seen since besides
black-and-white workprint footage.
