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Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

It’s time for #Monsterdon in a half hour!

Tonight, we’re watching Little Shop of Horrors (1960)—NOT the musical version, so it’ll be interesting. I’ve seen this before, and IIRC, it’s a much darker ending than the musical.

Start the movie at 8pm CDT (01:00 UTC), follow the #Monsterdon hashtag, and contribute your own silly commentary.

Full details: https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/115039201449337491
#MonsterdonBingo: https://mastodon.social/@Cherizilla/115046469191825608
Live stream: https://social.miyaku.media/@miru/statuses/01K2W0MGNP4W1FZ9K5EK84J0WY
Theme drink: https://mstdn.plus/@JoeWynne/115035929778357100

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#MonsterdonAlert Sunday, August 17, 2025, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC) IT'S #MONSTERDON we will be watching The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) "A lowly flower-shop assistant nurtures a carnivorous plant with a taste for human flesh. This cult movie was famously shot in two days by low-budget horror director Roger Corman and includes an early role for Jack Nicholson as a masochistic dental patient." its steaming free on Tubi but its public domain so you can find it in tons of places please watch and live post it with us! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY2KCl79Do8

the Timeloop Café

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

“He got blown up. Who knows how?"

“That’s nice. Would you like some flowers?”

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

I have no idea what’s going on.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

Some guy is in the shop eating carnations, and Seymour is played by Johnny Knoxville’s ancestor.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

She’s already drunk over half of that bottle of liquid that’s 98% alcohol.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

Is the flower eater an alien?

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

Licking the safety pin to sanitize it. Checks out.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

“Feed me more!”

I don’t like the voice actor they chose for this plant.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

Well, at least that death was an accident.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

Jack Nicholson!

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

The dialog between the detectives is amazing!

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

“You been breathin’ for years, ma.”

“Well, it ain’t easy. It ain’t easy, son.”

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

SUDDENLY, SEYMOUR!!!

“How’s the rain on the rhubarb?”

Is that a euphemism?

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

“Now, the float will be perfect!”

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

And they fucked off into…the plant?

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

Oh, yes! Now, the musical is showing on @miru’s stream!

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

How is it pouring, and the singers aren’t wet at all?

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

At least it wasn’t a total eclipse of the heart, which would be even more baffling.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

Rick Moranis is really amazing.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

I think Jack Antonoff of Bleachers took a lot of style inspiration from Rick Moranis’s Seymour Krelborn.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

Steve Martin as the dentist is one of the best casting decisions ever.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

Audrey is very confused.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

I have no recollection of this movie ending like this.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

That revolver should be out of bullets by now.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

I don’t remember any of this at all.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

Frank Oz is a fucking genius.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

I do not remember any of this ending, but this ending is much better than the memory I have of it!

David Zaslavsky Aug 18, 2025

@ramsey If I wasn't already thoroughly convinced of that by the Muppets, this absolutely would have sold it, indeed

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #WrongFrogs

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

@diazona He also directed Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and What About Bob?, two other great films.

@ramsey @miru the shojou manga it's clearly based on makes sense, i'm sure of it

#monsterdon #LittleShopOfHorrors1960

Floaty Birb Aug 18, 2025

@moira @ramsey @miru the shoujou manga is completely different...at least the anime adaptation was completely different. both involved a cursed shop and tragedies

Jon A. Cruz Aug 18, 2025

@ramsey @miru I'm so sad that musical was never produced

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

@joncruz @miru You mean the vampire musical the songwriter was working on?

Jon A. Cruz Aug 18, 2025

@ramsey @miru exactly. Even when the song was first released, I heard it as exactly that

David Zaslavsky Aug 18, 2025

@ramsey That was actually mentioned in the director's commentary version (which I caught the first few minutes of). IIRC Frank Oz wanted to convey that the singers were in some sense not fully in the universe of the movie, otherwise they'd seem weirdly out of place in Skid Row. Or something like that.

Ben Ramsey Aug 18, 2025

Thanks, everyone, for another great #Monsterdon, and especially thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @Cherizilla for #MonsterdonBingo, and @JoeWynne for the themed drink.

Cheers!