Little Shop Of Horrors With Mike Nelson

[bigkaiwang]

I was wondering if anyone had gotten an advance copy of the new colorized version of Little Shop of Horrors that is coming out. Mike Nelson does the commentary track MST3K-style like he did on Plan 9, which was hilarious. I don't think you can buy it until next week, but I thought someone might have reviewed it yet.

[thing-fish24]

The Little Shop of Horrors isn't a horror movie. It's an extremely funny comedy.

That being said, Legend Films' release of Roger Corman's comedy classic is excellent - the film has never looked better, and the commentary is very funny, too. Not much else except for the color version and commentary, but I don't think anyone expects much else from the company.

Here's the cover of the non-autographed edition, which comes out later this year:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000FAOCFE.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V54387426_.jpg

The autographed edition looks like this:
http://i3.ebayimg.com/03/i/07/0b/3f/c8_12.JPG

[The_Return]

I have this on a nice old VHS as well as a pretty cheap DVD, Im perfectly happy. Great film, but it's been awhile since I watched it...

[_____V_____]

I have both versions...the Nicholson one and the Moranis one...and quite unlike the name, the movie is basically comedy with a dash of horror in it...the Moranis version has some nice catchy tracks in it also...

[urgeok]

hmmmm colourized.

i suppose i'd give it a go ...

who autographed the autographed copy ?

[bigkaiwang]

Mike Nelson autographed it, since he did the commentary. I actually picked one up after I asked about it above, and thought it was a nice addition to my collection. Nelson's commentary was pretty funny, and... I just can't bring myself to hate colorization. I thought that all the flower shop scenes looked pretty cool in color!

PS. You're also very right about this not being a "horror" movie, despite the word appearing in its name. Definitely more of a comedy/spoof.

[thing-fish24]

Personally, I'm just glad to own a copy that doesn't look and sound like crap. The colorization, as with House on Haunted Hill, Plan 9 from Outer Space, and Reefer Madness is very natural looking, although I did notice one major goof-up in the colorization process: Mushnik holding a fork with a piece of green meat on the end of it. I think they might have gotten confused there (the reason the scene is so funny in black and white is because he just witnessed Seymour feeding a human foot to the plant, and then he comes back to the resturant and takes a look at what he's eating and loses his appetite. Although Mike Nelson makes up for this colorization goof by chiming in with "Guess he shouldn't have ordered the Soylent Green.")

[bigkaiwang]

If you're interested in checking them out, I just got an email from the folks at Legend for a promotion they are doing in June selling the Mike Nelson Plan 9s and Little Shops for a special rate with some free horror magazine (Screem Magazine) thrown in. It's advertised on their homepage, legendfilms.net

Anyone ever heard of the magazine?

[The Vern]

In colour? Gulp! No ta.