Little Shop of Horrors follows Seymour (Rick Moranis) as he finds a strange plant right after a total eclipse of the sun. Seymour works in a struggling flower shop and has feelings for a co-worker named Audrey, who is abused by her dentist boyfriend. Seymour discovers that the plant will only thrive if it can get regular access to human blood. Calling it Audrey II and putting it on display, Seymour must go to further and further lengths to keep the plant full of human blood. Bad things happen.
So far, nothing about this movie seems funny or like the kind of thing you can make into a musical but, somehow, it fits. With turns from John Candy, Bill Murray and Steve Martin (not to mention Moranis himself) there are lots of funny moments in this movie about a shy nerd killing people for his plant. On top of the comedy, there are some ridiculously catchy songs about the action taking place. It has no reason to work as well as it does but Frank Oz delivers.
If you can stand musicals and you want to see a fun/funny comedy-horror hybrid, you should check this out.
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