| "Feed
Me!" says The Bad Film Society.
The
film showing will start with a decadent Pre-Thanksgiving
pot luck dinner. We say "FEED ME!" This
is the best community dinner in Ashland! Keep on
bringing your scrumptious dishes! A treat for connoisseurs
of enjoyably bad films.
Our
feature will be the original 1960 version of The
Little Shop of Horrors. King of the B's, director
Roger Corman shot this crazy beat-era cult classic
in a mere two days for $30,000.
Schlemiel
Seymour Krelboing, unappreciated assistant in Mr.
Mushnik's skid-row flower shop, invents a plant
named Audrey Jr. that starts growing at an incredibly
fast rate. The problem is, it's a very hungry plant;
every night it opens its huge jaws and demands to
be fed, forcing poor Seymour to take to the street
in search of victims, lest he disappoint his boss
and his dimwitted girlfriend, Audrey. The monstrous
plant’s famous line is “FEED ME!”.
This hilarious black comedy overflows with great
gags and characters. Corman regular Dick Miller
plays a hipster who eats flowers, and a very young
Jack Nicholson takes a memorable turn as a masochistic
dental patient. The screenplay was also the basis
for a hit stage musical, which was filmed in 1986
and is now being revived on Broadway.
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