The Little Shop of Horrors from "A Bucket of Blood". The film slowly gained a cult following through word of mouth when it was distributed as the B movie in a double feature with Mario Bava's "Black Sunday" and later with "Last Woman on Earth". The film's popularity increased with local television broadcasts, in addition to the presence of a young Jack Nicholson, whose small role in the film has been prominently promoted on home video releases of the film. The film was the basis for an Off-Broadway musical, "Little Shop of Horrors", which was notably made into a 1986 feature film and enjoyed a
Little Shop of Horrors (film) Muppets Take Manhattan" around the same time. Oz initially rejected it, but he later had an idea that got him into the cinematic aspect of the project, which he did not figure out before. Oz spent a month and a half to restructure the script which he felt was stage-bound. Geffen and Ashman liked what he had written and decided to go with what he did. Oz was also studying the Off-Broadway show and how it was thematically constructed, all in order to reconstruct it for a feature film. The film differs only slightly from the stage play. The title