So here is the return of my regular feature the Sunday Night Movie post. I very nearly queued up my copy of Village of The Damned, the original not the boring John Carpenter remake, but at th3e very last moment decided I was in the moody for lighter fare and reached for the musical comedy.

This film has an interesting history. It started way back in 1960 as an extremely low-budget film from the prolific producer/director Roger Corman. Hollywood legend has it that the original film The Little Shop of Horrors was created as part of a bet with Corman and another filmmaker as to who could make a feature film the quickest. (Wikipedia states production was all of two days.) The horror/comedy is best know as the big screen debut of Jack Nicholson as a masochistic dental patient. Continue reading →