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Little Shop of Horrors (1986) [Full Reaction] (Patreon)

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2026-11-01 22:30:02
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2026-11-02 00:13:46
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2026-11
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Thank you to Tyler for the request on Reactr! Incredible puppeteering work here and this is my first Ellen Greene movie! Thanks for watching. ❤️

PS. I had to edit this post as YouTube blocked the watchalong ( 🙄 ), so the video is directly uploaded here.

The last movie reaction for the week/month will be shared tomorrow, right before the schedule!

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ChrisD

Is it just me or has the video been blocked already (Warner Bros didn't waste time, did they).

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Yes, YouTube blocked it because I didn't do sync-style for the original theatrical ending at the end. I've just re-uploaded it directly to Patreon here.

Tyler Foster

This was a late-night pulling-the-trigger on a Reactr request and my note was not as clear as it could've been. In addition to the Jack Nicholson thing being confusing, I confused you as to what I was saying about the endings. In the original stage show, Audrey dies, and you get the "Don't Feed the Plants" ending. As you may know, a few months back, I went to a special Q&A with Ellen Greene (and got to hear her perform "Somewhere That's Green" live, which I was not expecting!), and one thing she pointed out is that in the movie, she has a line, lifted right from the show: "When I die -- which should be very shortly..." On stage, she says that second half, the aside, directly to the audience, breaking the fourth wall. Meanwhile, Frank Oz has noted that at the end of the play, the cast you've just watched comes back out to take a bow. Both of them felt that this kind of artificiality is essentially the reason that it was this *director's cut* ending that everyone disliked. Even though the characters died just like that in the play, that artificiality helped them take it less seriously, even though they liked those characters. They changed it to the happier ending because viewers seeing the movie felt too genuinely connected to Seymour and Audrey, and like you, this time they felt more strongly about them getting their happily ever after. I imagine I may have had stronger positive feelings about the theatrical ending if I had seen this movie growing up, but the stories of the movie's original ending are legendary, so I waited until 2012 when the director's cut was first released to ever see the movie. Now, of course, it's not that I'm looking for a downer ending, but as even you observed during the reaction, what Seymour is doing with the plant is, basically, a deal with the Devil. As much as Orin Scrivello sucks, there's no way for Seymour to go kill him without betraying his own moral and ethical compass, and it's even worse because the sales pitch that actually convinces Seymour to do it is, wealth, fame, and Audrey -- not Orin's villainy. The other element, as I tried to hint at in my note without giving the ending away, is Greene's performance. The reprise of "Somewhere That's Green" as she dies is tragic, but incredibly moving to me. One thing I will say is that the destruction at the ending in the officially-released Director's Cut is a bit repetitive. Way back in 1998 or so, the movie was first released on DVD, and it had the original ending on it as an extra, in black-and-white. The producer of the film, David Geffen, learned about it and had the discs recalled, turning the first print run into a collector's item for those who managed to snag it before the remaining copies were returned to WB and destroyed. The ending on this disc is edited exactly the same as the one in this final version, yet I have seen a fan reconstruction that flows so perfectly, it seems impossible to think anything other than it was meant to go that way, and that version is shorter. A shame, but I'll take this version over nothing. In any case, I have done this request on two reaction channels and it seems like the perfect way to do it. If you love the Director's Cut, then you get to see the movie that way. If you dislike the Director's Cut, well, your wish for a happier ending gets to come true immediately! While I'm a DC fan, I accept that people like the other ending better, so hey, at least everyone's happy. You have actually seen Ellen Greene before. She played Christian Slater's teacher in 1990's Pump Up the Volume. She is indeed putting on a voice in this. For me, knowing that makes the voice funnier rather than annoying, although of course I understand that. You have also seen Mr. Mushnik before as well, Vincent Gardenia, when he played Cher's father in Moonstruck (if I remember correctly, an Oscar-nominated performance).

Guy Gordon

I grew up with the theatrical cut and had seen it many times. One of the very few musicals I've ever particularly liked. Still MUCH prefer the original ending that's in the director's cut. Very impressive work, plus it's much more fun as an alien-invasion, earth-conquest, vintage sci-fi type vibe.

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I must have missed seeing Pump Up The Volume on her Filmography list on the Wiki. 😅