Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Joe Dante and Roger Corman are, as we speak, working on a new version of Little Shop of Horrors, building on the legacy laid down by Corman’s 1960 original and the 1986 adaptation of the 1982 off-Broadway musical. Though the OG B-movie is fun (and features a very young Jack Nicholson as the pain-loving dental patient), Frank Oz’s musical film more overtly taps into our theme to form the backstory for bloodthirsty plant Audrey II. As the song goes: “When suddenly, and without warning/There was this total eclipse of the sun … And when the light came back, this weird plant was just sitting there.” (Free with ads on Sling TV.)
