Little Shop of Horrors (director's cut)

Name: Little Shop of Horrors (director's cut)
Start: 2025-03-09T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Star and Shadow Cinema

Schedule

Sun, 09 Mar, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Star and Shadow Cinema | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN

Director Frank Oz’s ebullient film adaptation of the smash Off-Broadway musical—itself based on a 1960 Roger Corman quickie—developed an instant cult following for its gleefully macabre tale of star-crossed skid-row lovers (the incomparable Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene) brought together and nearly torn apart by a giant, man-eating plant from outer space.
But the film that reached theatres differed from Oz and songwriters Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s original vision, chiefly in a newly invented happy ending added after test audiences rejected the stage version’s darker, apocalyptic finale. For years, that deleted footage was viewable only on a special edition DVD that went out of print (at the behest of producer David Geffen) nearly as soon as it hit stores—and then, only as degraded, black-and-white workprint footage.
Now, three decades after its release, Little Shop of Horrors has been digitally restored to its original director’s cut, featuring 20 minutes of never-before-seen footage including the full original ending in glorious colour!