The Rick Moranis-headlined version of Little Shop Of Horrors is a special piece of weirdness.
This article comes fromDen of Geek UK.
But how didLittle Shop Of Horrorsget to that stage?
Why did it originally have the ending that it did, and why did it change?
The musical plays fair by narrative rules, in giving Seymour his comeuppance at the end.
Ozs adaptation skewed closely to the original stage show helped by retaining Howard Ashman as screenwriter.
It didnt win, though, losing out toTop Guns Take My Breath Away.
Watch Little Shop of Horrors on Amazon
And then we get tothatending.
Unfortunately, without their realizing it, something else had happened over the course of the film.
And then the theater became a refrigerator, an ice box.
You have to have a 55 percent recommend to really be released… and we got a 13.
It was a complete disaster.
We did it, and we got exactly the same reaction: like 16 per cent or something.
We didnt want to, but we understood they couldnt release it with that kind of a reaction.
Audiences loved the two leads so much that when we killed them, they felt bereft.
This legend was only heightened further by the films first DVD release, in 1998. caption pops up, the screen suddenly rips in two as the plant bursts through, cackling away.
Read and download theDen of Geek Lost in Space Special Edition Magazineright here!
