LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS IS BETTER THAN EXPECTED! Little Shop of Horrors Movie Reaction! CRAZY DENTIST
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Meek flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis) pines for co-worker Audrey (Ellen Greene). During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh and blood. The growing plant attracts a great deal of business for the previously struggling store. After Seymour feeds Audrey's boyfriend, Orin (Steve Martin), to the plant after Orin's accidental death, he must come up with more bodies for the increasingly bloodthirsty plant.
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Original Movie: Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
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Audrey 2 has his own Funko pop too
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What I love the most about Little Shop of Horrors, there’s NO CGI in this. All realistic use of practical affects and use of great puppetry.
And nominated for Best special effects (1986):
ALIENS,
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS,
POLTERGEIST 2: THE OTHER SIDE,
(ALIENS won).
The funniest thing to me is even really bad CGI is usually more expensive than this, and yet filmmakers keep relying on it.
The theatrical cut, the one with the happy ending that I grew up with, has a Jim Belushi cameo in the parts that were changed from the stage play. He replaces the guy who stops Seymour from jumping off the roof, the one who wants to sell Audrey IIs in stores. In that ending: Audrey still gets chewed on a bit, but she survives; the two have a very brief reprise of "Suddenly, Seymour" together; they're interrupted by Belushi's character, who also wants to sell cuttings (complete with the "bigger than hula-hoops!" line); Seymour has the showdown with the plant, and that showdown mostly goes the same except that the plant collapses the roof on Seymour, who barely survives and manages to electrocute the plant using a live wire he found in the rubble; and finally Seymour and Audrey get their happy ending in the suburbs, in the same house from Audrey's fantasy in "Somewhere That's Green". "Don't Feed The Plants" is removed from the movie entirely, but there's a little baby Audrey II growing in the garden, which smiles at the camera as the movie fades out to the credits.
As much as I do enjoy the restored cut with the stage-accurate ending, the theatrical cut remains my favorite, and I feel like it's the best version for a first watch. That said, both endings are absolutely worth seeing.
It's interesting to note that the version you saw was lost for a very long time. There was a black-and-white workprint that survived, but it didn't have any of the music; it ended up as a special feature on the 1998 DVD release, which eventually made its way to TH-cam. A decade and a half later, good color footage of the lost ending was rediscovered, so they restored it with full music and put it on the 2012 Blu-ray release. Another decade later, it's now easier to find the "lost" ending on streaming than the original happy ending that was shown in theaters, which seems weird to me.
This original ending didn't test well with screen audiences, so they made an alternate ending where Audrey and Seymour survive and manage to defeat the plant.
I still think the original ending would make the movie much better if it released with it and it would have been amazing!
Despite its 60s trappings, Little Shop of Horrors is a textbook example of Greek tragedy.
Once he gets Audrey 2, Seymour destroys his enemy (Scrivello), his father (Mushnik), his love (Audrey), and then, himself.
Hell, Crystal, Chiffon, and Ronnette are as modernized as a Greek chorus as you can get, with how they jump from actual characters to outside observers depending on the needs of the scene.
**me scanning forward to see if it’s the original ending and being pleased**
😝
I legitimately did the same thing 😂
This movie has two endings, the one similar to the musical and the good one, when Seymour and Audrey live happily ever after
I love happy endings
Yeah exactly
I grew up with the happy ending so I can’t help but prefer it
Yeah, this is the Original Ending/Director's Cut version, there's another version that was released theatrically that has the "happy ending" with Seymour electrocuting Audrey II/Twoey/the original giant plant and killing it in a huge explosion. Then Seymour and Audrey (who survived) move to the suburbs the way they dreamed, happily married. At the very end, a tiny sapling/bud of Twoey has sprouted on Seymour and Audrey's lawn; it turns to the audience and smiles ominously.
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Since nobody's mentioned it yet, I might as well say - the plant puppetry was done at a slower speed so that it would look smooth when played at a normal speed. This meant that in order to film 'Feed Me', Rick Moranis has to do the whole thing moving and lip syncing in slow motion to match the speed of the puppet.
“The guy sure looks like plant food to me” love it, iconic 🤣 also Rick did sing in this movie, pretty impressive honestly
This movie is amazing, a real nostalgic favorite of mine. Rick Moranis is great as Seymour, Audrey II is fantastic, and the songs are all absolute bangers. Especially "Dentist!", "Feed Me (Git It!)" and "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space".
My favorite one is "Skid Row"
My favorite is "Suppertime". That bassline is 🔥.
The only thing I like about this alternate ending is that it makes the whole story feel like an urban legend
The lyrics and music for this were written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken who wrote lyrics and music for many of the Disney Renaissance movies. Ashman was incredibly influential in the early Renaissance movies and was responsible for the Broadway musical style they took starting with The Little Mermaid. He wrote lyrics for that Beauty and the Beast and a few songs in Aladdin. He unfortunately died shortly before Beauty and the Beast premiered and it was dedicated to him.
The version you watched is the way the stage musical ends -- with the plants spreading across the country. However, the studio wanted a happy ending with Audrey and Seymour together. It turns out that it was the better version, much more entertaining.
By the way, Ellen Greene, who plays Audrey, originated the role off-Broadway.
The musical is based on a low-budget movie by filmmaker Roger Corman, who specialized in low-budget (sometimes very low) movies. In fact, his Little Shop of Horrors was filmed in just two days, which was possible because he was able to reuse some set pieces from a movie he had recently completed.
Fun fact: Bill Murray's masochistic dental patient was played in the original film by a young Jack Nicholson, who appeared in several of Corman's movies.
I really hated the happy ending and it did not make sense. I noticed one of the backup singers was missing in the movie version
@galandirofrivendell4740 That is your opinion the happy cooney version is better, and frankly i grew up with the Happy ending version, and i find the happy ending version quite dull and boring. The original ending makes it complete and teaches lessons about bargaining with the devil, without paying the consequences.
My understanding is that the test audiences reacted very negatively to this ending (the world conquest) and that THAT'S why the studio insisted they script and shoot the happy - if slightly ambiguous - ending that was eventually released in theaters. I say "slightly ambiguous" because as Seymour and Audrey retire into their little tract house, the camera pans down to their garden where we see....a baby Audrey II that breaks the 4th wall to look directly into the camera and smile with evil intent.
I was intimately familiar with the stage musical well before the movie was ever announced and I was so disappointed with the happy ending. What a cop out! There was a very rare DVD that had been issued with the rough (unedited, unscored, often black and white) footage they'd shot for THIS ending included as an extra but the studio pulled them in favor of a release that left all that out.
One goof I did notice when they restored the original ending. I know they only had a black-and-white version to work with to restore it and they did a good job, but it always got me that the inside of Audrey II's mouth turned red instead of purple. (I suppose they could say that's because it's full of blood or something...)
Saw this in the theater as a child and all I remember from it is, "feed me Seymour".
I had an Audrey II coin bank that ran on batteries. Put a penny in and it “chewed” up.
I did this show back in my musical theatre days. I played Audrey 2 and it was one of the greatest memories I've ever made
The musical itself is sooo good! Great music, astounding lyrics, and you have the genius of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. Plus, Frank Oz is the director of the movie! :)
Fun fact: in tge stage play, Don't Feed The Plants was sung by Seymour, Audrey, and some of the other people the plant killed, as they turned into buds, but still maintained their human faces, and it's sung as a warning to the audience, and the final scene was Audrey II eating the theatre audience
The director's cut is interesting, but the theatrical version actually fits the rest of the film better.
This version is the theatre version, but back in the 1980's was changed. However i have to admit, i grew up with Seymor and Audrey surviving. Also to be frank, I like this version better where the plant wins, because it makes more sense to me. IMHO
This movie actually has TWO endings this one which is similar to the play and then a happy ending in which Audrey and Seymour live happily ever after which is my personal favourite ending and I will always prefer to watch the happy version.
I agree as what works for the stage doesn't work for film.
I like that ending better too
I think what's kind of odd is that they restored the original ending but it doesn't look like they restored the full version of "The Meek Shall Inherit", which would be the main song that would turn the audience against Seymour. Ah well.
At least the special effects guys finally got vindicated. They were ticked that they spent a whole fifth of the movie's budget making this ending only for it to be canned.
I think the happy ending is better for the film. Makes the final showdown more tense as well. And although seymore commits bad acts during the film, Audrey deserves a happy ending
Levi Stubbs, the voice of Audrey 2, makes a cameo in the Skid Row number. He's the guy who kicks the fence while singing "Down on skid".
If you ever get the chance, I recommend seeing the stage production. They always go all out on the puppetry and with a hoot to watch! The last one I went to someone had dressed up their two year old in fake vines and had them run around stage as the plant cutting. I'm not even a kid person and I found it hilarious!
My favorite Little Shop of Horrors trivia fact: This movie and Aliens were both filming at Pinewood Studios in the UK at the same time. Rick Moranis had to film his scenes with the large Audrey II puppet in slow motion because it was so complex and had a lot of moving parts. These scenes were then sped up in post production. Sigourney Weaver had to do the same thing in her scenes with Queen/Mother Xenomorph in Aliens. Rick & Sigourney talked regularly between takes on their projects about the struggles that come with that kind of filming. Sigourney herself shared that memory when she was interviewed in the Aliens episode of the Netflix series The Movies That Made Us.
The Bill Murray scene is so hilarious, the fact that Steve enjoys inflicting paint and Bill enjoys receiving it 🤣 they are too good in that scene. I personally prefer the happy ending version of this movie, it’s the one I grew up with.
Bill Murray's part was not in the play, but was added to this film because, in the original film, that part was played by Jack Nicholson.
Yes one of my favourite musicals of all time! I love that the production made 2 alternate endings to see what a happy ending would look like and also what the tragic book ending would look like. This is a masterpiece in my books 😁👍🏻
I’ve loved this movie since I was kid and seen it a million times but never knew there was another ending. So when Audrey died, I thought I was being punked 😂
Another fun fact that’s also linked back to Mel Brooks, is that this was a movie based on a musical stage play that was based on a movie. The movie the producers with Matthew Broderick, was based on the producers stage show that was based on Mel Brooks‘s movie the producers
For my money, this is one of the great movie musicals. Excellent music, lyrics, directing and acting. I've attended three stage productions of 'Shop and the original ending worked well. However, audiences have become so invested in Rick Moranis's Seymour that the happy ending works perfectly. The beats work out better, too.
Not really, I think the happy ending was waaay to camp and dull. I like this version better, since it is indeed the original.
Ellen Greene (Audrey actress) looks the same today 30 years later… and often performs the songs from this movie (and sounds exactly the same too) … She’s like a musical vampire. 😂 ❤️
This was originally a dark comedy made by "shlock" director Roger Corman. Released in 1960, the part of the masochist dental patent was played by a young Jack Nickolson. It then became an off-broadway musical, the actress who played Audrey in the movie played the same character in the musical.
I used to sing along with the off Broadway album. It’s one of my favorite musicals.
This movie has one of the greatest soundtracks ever in my opinion.
Ok, so you watched the version with the original Director’s Cut ending where Audrey II wins (that’s how the stage play ended)🤣The first time I watched the movie, it was the version that came to theaters with the happy ending where Seymour and Audrey defeat Audrey II and live happily ever after.
Believe or not, in THAT version, the salesman that approached Seymour (and in this case Audrey as well since she doesn’t die in this version) to produce more Audrey II plants was played by Jim Belushi🤣🤣
Little shop of horrors was originally a movie that was turned into a broadway musical which was turned into this movie musical.
The music for this was so good, and of course it would be! It was some of the earlier work from the Menken/Ashman combo that would later bring about the Disney musical renaissance with Little Mermaid up until Ashmans death during Aladdin, though Menken continues working today
Amazing music, amazing singing, amazing story, amazing puppetry
Alright you watched the original ending, I think it's the better one, the one that makes the more sense. Love the songs here, the dentist one is pretty catchy
There is an alternate ending that was made after this one was released cuz audience didn’t like the dark ending.
I never saw this movie, except I do remember seeing the plant eat a person when I was a little kid! Still miss Rick Moranis from the Honey I Shrunk series!!
This is the Director's cut. The theatrical ending is where the plant dies.
This film actually has a lot of famous puppeteers in it. Well, maybe not a lot, but it had:
Anthony Asbury (he was Yertle The Turtle on The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss), who was in the original production (I thought I heard that he was in the film, anyway), Ronnie Le Drew (not well known over here in America, but he was Zippy from Rainbow (one of two British versions of Sesame Street) who would later go on to do the voice for the character, and Nigel Plaskitt, another British puppeteer who worked on shows like Pipkins (the other British Sesame Street, with the calmness of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood) as Hartley Hare, Mopatop's Shop (a Jim Henson Company production from the late 90's), where he played a mouse, and a monkey for a few commercials I can't remember the names of
Awesome that you reacting to this underrated classic.
Definitely underrated or forgotten!
I actually cosplayed as Seymour and my sister helped me make a Audrey 2
@@TimotheeReacts At least my dentist constantly asks every second if I’m okay
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Please do a short reaction to the alternate ending! I believe you'd like it better because it's the more "heartfelt and happy" version!😁
Such a great musical, so many great performances!
i still can't get over this ending that they have, I only found out about it last year, I grew up with the other ending which was a happy one but I still adore this movie. The songs are amazing and I love ellen greene's voice. Suddenly seymour is my favourite song. Good reaction
Me too! Was mindblown when I found out about this ending, I prefer the happy one though
AGREED!! I knew of the original happy ending, of all the countless times I've seen this film it was with the happy ending. I only found out about this alternate ending like a week or two ago when another reactor I watched saw this version, too. I was so freaking confused, to say the least.
I'm curious why this is the one reactors always watch. It must be some kind of Star Wars special edition type thing where Frank Oz got the theatrical ending banished on whatever streaming service owns the rights.
Best part of watching someone react to this apart from Dentist song, is waiting to see which ending they have
I know right
Yep! It's like a "Choose your own Adventure" story!
Seems pretty much everyone watches the bad ending. Kind of disappointing for me really since I highly prefer the other.
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I wonder when Seymore said" that man is a total disgrace to the dental profession" if that was in the script or if Rick added that because he is actually a dentist.
What Seymour did with Orin, Steve Martin's character, was desecration of a corpse, which is a crime. Audrey 2 is a puppet, it took something like 16 people to operate it
Funny that you mentioned the Joker, 'cause the same "medical torture" props you see @24:29 were reused three years later for Tim Burton's Batman, in the shady doctor's office where Jack Napier gets his facelift (the movie was shot in the same UK studios). ;) Anyway, this is my favorite musical of all time.
Enjoyed that you went for the Bad Ending (aka, same as the musical but bigger)! The Happy Ending (studio version, where Audrey and Seymour survive) is cute, but this version is a banger and watching the plants take over the world never gets old. Anyway, great reaction - love that you gave this movie and the talent in it the respect owed. So many greats! One you may not have twigged is that the legendary Levi Stubbs of Four Tops fame was the voice of the plant.
I don't think he chose that by choice as several other people including Late Nights With Sammy and Ashleigh Burton ended up seeing this version of the film.
I remember I’d watch this before and I remember Seymour and Audrey surviving so when I saw that Audrey died,then Seymour die and then the plants took over the world I was very confused and I thought I was going through an Mandela effect but then you guys said there were two endings so…
I didn't know this ending, it surprised me. It's very good, and it fits more to the original version, although I prefer the other one, the happy (and open) one. I recommend you watch it, you just have to take the movie from the moment the plant tries to devour Audrey.
And thanks for reacting to one of my favorite movies.
Actually, I had seen the happy version first, and when i became an adult i had seen the stage version, although many here will disagree with me, but i like this version where the plant wins better. It reminds me of Greek tragedy which i love
I had no idea about this alternate ending. I have only seen the happy ending theatrical release. Reminds me of Weird Al's "The Night Santa Went Crazy." The album release ends with Santa being arrested and jailed. But on Spotify, the version ended with the FBI shooting Santa.
I love the plant singing
I think what he ment was that he was putting stuff in the air to make him erisistable and if he help him he could be more manipultive
what's your favorite song in this movie
mine is mean green mother from outer space
Tim.... Your reactions for "Little Shop of Horrors" was great! I enjoyed this so much.... you don't know. The non~ theatrical version is one of my favorite movies of all time but this version is still a treat for me . The cameos of Bill Murray and John Candy won my heart over. I am so glad that you did a reaction for this movie and I will watch this here again . I was delighted . Thank you
Bill Murray had the shortest part in the but was the best comeo ever.
The music was written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman, who also wrote the score for The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, as well as part of Aladdin, which was Ashman's pet project before his death. Menken has gone on to write the music for multiple Disney movies since.
When you said 'could all of this be in his head', there have been a couple of recent stage productions that have taken that approach. I've seen clips of one where the actor playing Seymour is also the voice of the plant at the same time, and one that starred Amber Riley as the plant in which it took a much more alien form that's almost never fully seen. Both approaches make it feel more like Seymour is hallucinating the plant talking.
I'm so tickled that you watched the original ending. I didn't know about it for a long time, and I vastly prefer it.
Same here
This is one of my all time favourites
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The scene where mushnik leaves the store there was a very hilarious blooper where he tells Seymour to work and nurse the plant back death
I think when the singing is this freakwent it's called a rock opera
The original, non-musical movie that inspired the Broadway show came out in 1960; the 1986 movie apparently takes place a year of two later, since we hear a radio news broadcast mention President Kennedy. In any case, in case you didn't catch it, the three black girl singers are named Crystal, Chiffon, and Ronette, after the Crystals, the Chiffons, and the Ronettes, three black girl singing groups of the period. And of course the movie is littered with references to the 1960 era: December Bride, Father Knows Best, Donna Reed, Jack Paar, etc. By the way, in the original (extremely low budget) movie, the producer saved money by hiring a theater student who was just trying to break into the business for the role played by Bill Murray in the remake: the student's name was Jack Nicholson, and he's the best thing in the original version.
The movie takes place in the early 60's- the same timeframe as the original movie in 1960. (Jack Nicholson played Bill Murray's part in that). 1.95 in 1960 was the equivalent to 19.81 today.
Rick Moranis and John Candy were in SCTV together.
One of my favorite parts about watching reactions to this film is men thinking Twoey wants the booty, never realizing the woman at the radio station is menstruating 😂
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I love this movie! This is one of my all-time favorite movie soundtracks. "Feed Me", "Suddenly Seymour", "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space", and of course "Little Shop of Horrors" are my favorite songs.
Audrey 2 used to scare the you know what out of me when I was younger. LOL! Now not scary at all. LOL!
This is one of my favorite Rick Moranis roles. Another one of my favorite movies that I highly recommend is the 1989 movie "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids".
This is the original ending which is much darker thanthe theatrical version. Which I'm glad that you did. I don't see many reactions for the extended version. The theatrical version had a much happier ending. However, I've heard that the original play had this darker ending.
Looking forward to your next reaction. 😊
Imagine if the Little Shop Of Horrors were 3-D
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It would have been funny if Audrey 2 started chortling upon consuming the dentist(nerd humor).
Also, in the Broadway version, Seymour gets eaten trying to kill Audrey 2.
One of my favourite movies, loved it since I was a kid as soon as that opening song hit 🤣 also my favourite Steve Martin Character in this movie
one of my favorite musicals!!
I’ve always heard of this ending but never saw it thankfully. The happy ending is so much better.
The happy ending is definitely not better.
@@justcallmebrian793 It definitely is better. Way better.
@@jefferoni1984 if you support the happy ending then you support murder! The real ending which is the director cut and the Broadway version was a important lesson, which people like yourself failed to understand. You cannot commit murder and not pay the consequences that may bring to your error!
One of my favorite musicals
Omg you watched this ending. There's actually also an alternate ending which is the 'happy' ending that I always watched as a kid
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Steve Martin taking a hit of the gas never fails to make me laugh.
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There is another ending where they all live happily ever after
This was the first of a triple play of movie muducal hits fir Alan Menken and Hiward Ashman...3 years later we'd get THE LITTLE MERMAID, then, Howatd's last completed work, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. This one, though, made me a fan of Alan's
39:32 Aha! You went for the director's cut! Excellent choice imo but honestly both endings are fine.
The actor playing Audrey was actually the original stage actor for Audrey in the show's original run.
The voice of Audrey II was Levi Stubbs, the lead singer of The Four Tops ("I Can't Help Myself", "Reach Out I'll Be There"). A rather appropriate choice, as The Four Tops were famous for the genre of music that this musical went for with its own soundtrack. He did such an iconic great job that he actually got hired to do the voice for Mother Brain for the late-80s Nintendo-tie-in cartoon "Captain N: The Game Master". The cartoon was...very crappy (especially now that I took off my nostalgia goggles), but listening to Levi Stubbs have a ball voicing Mother Brain is worth a look.
I think that might be Anthony Michael Hall as an uncredited cameo as one of Steve Martin's patients during "I'm Your Dentist", but I'm not positive... (It was years before I finally recognized Christopher Guest as the first customer... I only really know him as the Six-Fingered Man/Count from "The Princess Bride".)
One last creepy fact... The prop department did make a prop for Steve Martin's severed head for when Seymour is feeding Audrey II Orin's butchered remains, but that pushed the film dangerously toward 'R' territory (remember, no PG-13 at this point in history), so they left it out.
A little extra context (if this repeats something already said, apologies): the stage musical was based on the 1960 cult classic film by Roger Corman, which was a VERY silly micro-budget horror flick that nodded constantly to its own ironic sense of humor. The character played in the film musical by Bill Murray was played in the original film by no less than Jack Nicholson, in one of his very first film roles. The part of Audrey was played by the great Jackie Joseph, who is still with us, and is a LOVELY person. She's a friend of a friend, and a facebook friend of mine, and she could not be sweeter. The three singers who pop up to narrate different scenes essentially act as a Greek chorus in the classic tradition. In the original release, they changed the ending and made it a happy one. I actually like that version much better. Overall, though, I think it's a terrific film, very faithful to the tone of both the stage musical and the film on which it's all based, and the performances are terrific.
Also - you ask if there are films we'd like to see you react to, and I have one. "Auntie Mame," from 1958. It's a classic, legendary comedy, based on a stage play of the same name (and with virtually the entire same cast), which in turn was based on a best-selling novel. It's incredibly fun, and I think you'd find a LOT of people watching it who are fans of the film.
My local community theater did this play last year I was Dr. Orrin and it was a blast it was such a fun show
Gravity Falls did parody this movie. At least Grunckle Stan wasn’t a man-eating Venus fly-trap.
The venus flytrap animatronic in the Little Shop Of Horrors movie looks very cool, and so life like.
FunFact: it’s actually just puppetry! The talent is amazing
I can see this being an inspiration for The guy who didn´t like musicals
Unironically my favorite musical. Saw it a year ago and it was heccing great
47:55 that’s the alternate ending of the extended cut.
The end of the world only costs a dollar ninety-five
Holy 💩! You watched the original/bad ending! I've only ever watched the good ending on TV.
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Dentist scene does scare others that are scared of the dentist that’s true 100 % I agree with that Steve Martin must’ve had a blast filming he did a good job acting crazy
There are two endings, you saw the bad one lol I was so excited when I saw that you were going to be watching this. One of my favorite movies to come out of the 80s.
This movie is a masterpiece!
Omg I never saw this ending I saw the one where they live happy ever after
This "original ending" didn't test well with audiences in 1986, the "theatrical ending" has Seymour saving Audrey at the last minute and they escape and end up living somewhere that's green (however, one little "alien plant" is shown at the very last scene, hinting to a sequel that was planned after the film was a hit, but never happened....yet🌺🍃🍀).
Yeah, this was the original ending, when they showed it to test audiences, the audiences did not want to see Audrey and Seymour die, so Yoda, Frank Oz, decided to redo the ending and make a happy ending where Seymour and Audrey lived. I like both endings. I grew up on the happy ending. I only recently saw this one.
You have to understand that Audrey 2 is a representation of the devil, and when you deal with the devil, he comes to collect.