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Unspooled

Little Shop of Horrors

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy feed 1986’s creature feature musical Little Shop of Horrors! They credit director Frank Oz for getting Audrey II’s physicality just right, dive into the career of Four Tops singer Levi Stubbs, and debate whether the heightened tone of the film feels more theatrical or more cinematic. Plus: A young Jack Nicholson’s astonishing cameo in the original Little Shop. Next week Unspooled shakes out its first holiday stocking stuffer, Love Actually! You can join the conversation for this series on the Unspooled Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unspooledpodcast, and on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]!

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0:00.0

The year is 1986 and

0:03.2

Feed me air wolf the movie little shop of horrors

0:07.3

Oh

0:25.3

Hello everyone and welcome to unsplored

0:30.3

I'm Amy Nicholson and I am Paul Sheer in this the podcast where we are endeavoring to find the best

0:36.9

Films of all time and when we do we are sending them up to space we are making the list we are checking it twice and

0:43.7

We are listening to you the people who listen to our show what should we be talking about what are the films that represent our culture not just

0:52.7

America but the world and each week we're trying to get closer right now we are winding down our

0:58.7

First I should say musical series we did a very short musical series just to kind of dip our toes and it's been so much fun and we're ending with little shop of horrors but

1:10.1

What a fun ride this has been I mean all of these films have been

1:14.7

Pure enjoyment to me they really have I mean this is this is definitely a series where we put our toe in and it just maybe realize how big the ocean is and how much we're leaving out and how much it pains me to move on from the musical

1:26.7

But before we do I mean little shop of horrors to me this was a surprise

1:31.2

This was like the number one most requested thing I saw this whole time

1:35.0

I knew this movie was loved. I knew this movie has level bowl

1:38.4

I did not know that it had the grounds well of passion

1:41.3

I saw I saw where it was just

1:43.8

Constantly you got to do little shop you can't you can't get through your first musical series if you have not done little shop

1:48.4

I will feed you to my plants if you do not do little shop of horrors

1:51.6

I

1:52.4

Mean this the people have spoken they have sung that they have built it out their desire and it was all for little shop of horrors

1:59.7

And I'm so excited to talk about this film because this film holds a special place in my heart and

2:05.0

It's for many different reasons but primarily when I was a kid it felt like this was a movie where all my favorite

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