3 Classic Horrors Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 3 - Little Shop Of Horrors / Bat / Bride Of The Monster

Starring: Jonathan Haze, Vincent Price Dvd Release: 6th December, 2004 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 horror film produced by Roger Corman, later adapted as a stage musical & then a 1986 musical film. These works were also the source for the 1991 animated television series Little Shop. The plot is similar in all three versions. Little Shop of Horrors tells the story of a young florists assistant named Seymour Krelbourn, an employee of Mushniks Skid Row Florist, who one day comes across a mysterious plant. Its interests are revealed to be in serious conflict with the interests of the humans around it. Seymour names the plant Audrey II after his secret love, Audrey, another of the shops employees. The plant begins to grow & attracts customers to Mushniks. it feeds on human blood. In order to maintain the shops popularity & win the affections of Audrey, Seymour is forced to secretly kill people & feed them to the increasingly large & cruel Audrey II. Although Corman has described his original film as humorous, it was more in the traditional horror genre than its successsors. Posters Of Little Shop Of Horrors

Originally known as Bride of the Atom, Bride of the Monster is a 1955 film starring Bela Lugosi in the typical evil mad scientist role & was directed by Ed Wood, a name synonymous with bad low-budget filmmaking. Lugosis character, Dr Eric Vornoff, tries to create an army of supermen to do his bidding but is thwarted by the good guys. The films highlight is when Bela is thrown atop a rubber octopus & moves its arms in the vain attempt to simulate animation on the part of the beast. Previous splices of a live octopus in a fish tank with the rubber octopus do nothing to make it seem more realistic. The television program Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured Bride of the Monster in one episode. The shooting of this movie is also re-enacted in Tim Burton s biopic of Wood, including a sequence showing Wood & his crew stealing the phony octopus from a props storage vault. One is always considered mad, if one discovers something that others cannot grasp. It has been argued by commentators on the film that it is actually meaningful as a criticism of standard views & ideas.

Vincent Price was an American film actor. He is most well remembered for his roles in a series of low-budget horror films where his distinctive voice & serio-comic attitude were well used. Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His father was president of the National Candy Company. Price Jr. was educated at Yale & the Cortauld Institute, London in art history & fine art. He became interested in theater in the 1930s, appearing professionally on stage from 1935. He made his film debut in 1938 with Service de Luxe & established himself as a competent player, notably in Laura, directed by Otto Preminger. He acted as Joseph Smith, Jr. in the movie Brigham Young. In the 1950s he moved into horror films, enjoying the role in the successful curiosity The House of Wax, the first 3-D film to land in the years top ten at the North American box office. Posters Of Alice Cooper

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