Little Shop of Horrors (film) she has a date with her boyfriend, revealed to be a dentist ("Dentist!"). After Seymour closes up shop, Audrey II begins to talk to Seymour, demanding more blood than Seymour can give. The plant proposes that Seymour murder someone in exchange for fame and fortune: Seymour initially refuses, but agrees after witnessing Orin beating Audrey ("Feed Me (Get It)"). After Orin finishes with his masochistic patient, Arthur Denton (Bill Murray), who requested "a long, slow, root canal", Seymour books an appointment with Orin and arms himself with a revolver; however, he cannot bring himself to use it. Orin, who abuses
The Little Shop of Horrors father appears as a dental patient, and his grandmother, Myrtle Vail, appears as Seymour's hypochondriac mother. Dick Miller, who had starred as the protagonist of "A Bucket of Blood" was offered the role of Seymour, but turned it down, instead taking the smaller role of Burson Fouch. Production at the "Bucket of Blood" sets was compressed into three days of cast rehearsals, immediately followed by two days and one night of principal photography. It had been rumored that the film's shooting schedule was based on a bet that Corman could not complete a film within that time. However, this claim