There was a time when we used to make a lot of kind of iconic movie musicals. One being the adaptation of the 1960s film Little Shop of Horrors into a musical with music by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. The 1986 film starred Rick Moranis as Seymour Krelborn, a role originated by Lee Wilkof in the stage musical. Ellen Greene played Audrey in both and the rest was made in film history. Who can forget Steve Martin‘s performance as the Dentist? But now, 40 years later, fans can bring home a special version of the film to celebrate this historic landmark! On October 6, you can purchase a 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray version of the film, also available on digital.
The film, which also starred Vincent Gardenia, Tisha Campbell, Tichina Arnold, Michelle Weeks, Jim Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Guest, and Bill Murray, is an Oscar nominated film and has continue to live on among fans and in Broadway adaptations. Currently, fans can see an Off-Broadway production that has been running for almost 7 years. Little Shop of Horrors is described as follows: “A comedy, a love story, and a cult classic starring a giant singing plant from outer space – what else could it be but Little Shop of Horrors?Seymour – an orphan and a nerd who works in a run-down flower shop on Skid Row – spends his time doing menial tasks and dreaming of his co-worker, Audrey. Then, one day, just after an eclipse of the sun, Seymour discovers a strange plant. The exotic plant draws customers, saves the flower shop from bankruptcy, and makes Seymour a hero in Audrey’s eyes. But the plant has a rather unique appetite … and it’s getting interested in Audrey too.”
Fans can experience special features on both the digital release 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc including a look at Audrey II, the flesh eating plant that is trying to ruin Seymour’s life, as well as deleted scenes, outtakes, and more! The full list is below:
Little Shop of Horrors Digital release and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc contain the following new and existing special features:
• To Feed or Not to Feed: For the Love of Little Shop (NEW)
Director Frank Oz and star Ellen Greene share behind-the-scenes memories from the making of the film and explore what has kept it a beloved classic for 40 years.
• Mean Green Mother – Creating Audrey II (NEW)
Director Frank Oz, special visual effects artist Bran Ferren, model supervisor Richard Conway, and star Ellen Greene share memories and stories about the world’s most famous man-eating plant: Audrey II.
• Original Theatrical Commentary by Frank Oz
• Frank Oz and Little Shop of Horrors: The Director’s Cut
• A Story of Little Shop of Horrors
• Outtakes and Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary
• Director’s Cut Ending with Optional Commentary by Frank Oz
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
The Iconic Alternate Ending
Little Shop of Horrors has become the staple for Little Shop of Horrors as a show. But there is one big difference: The end of the film allows Audrey and Seymour their happy ending. That is, decidedly, not what happens at the end of the show. Instead, Audrey II does, in fact, eat Audrey and the alien plants that thirst for blood take over the planet. Now, with the 4K release, fans can watch both cuts of the film and decide for themselves what the best ending for the movie is!
You can own this special edition of Little Shop of Horrors on October 6.
