Little Shop of Horrors 🎥 1986 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Orphaned Seymour Krelborn and his co-worker, Audrey, work at Mushnik’s Flower Shop in the rough, rundown Skid Row neighborhood of New York City, which they lament that they cannot escape. Struggling from a lack of customers, Mr. Mushnik decides to close the store, but Audrey suggests he may have more success by displaying an unusual plant that Seymour owns. Immediately attracting a customer, Seymour explains he bought the plant – which he dubbed “Audrey II” – from a Chinese flower shop during a solar eclipse. The plant brings much business to Mushnik’s shop but soon starts to wither.

Seymour accidentally pricks his finger and discovers that Audrey II needs human blood to thrive. Soon after, Audrey II begins to grow rapidly, and earns Seymour a spot on energetic DJ Wink Wilkinson’s radio show, making him a local celebrity. Meanwhile, Audrey suffers at the hands of her sadistic and evil biker boyfriend, Orin Scrivello; however, she has feelings for Seymour and secretly dreams of being married and living happily with him in the suburbs. Seymour continues to feed Audrey II his own blood, draining his energy. He attempts to ask Audrey out, but she turns him down because she has a date with Orin, who is revealed to be a dentist who enjoys his patients’ misery. After Seymour closes up shop, Audrey II finally has a chance to speak to Seymour, demanding more blood than Seymour can give.

The plant suggests that Seymour murder someone, promising to bring him fame and fortune that will impress Audrey. Seymour initially refuses but eventually agrees after he witnesses Orin physically and verbally abusing Audrey in the street. After Orin finishes with his masochistic patient, Arthur Denton, who had requested “a long, slow, root canal”, Seymour draws a revolver on Orin, but cannot bring himself to use it. Orin, who abuses nitrous oxide, puts on a type of venturi mask to receive a constant flow of the gas, but breaks the valve, and Seymour watches as he asphyxiates.

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