Little Shop of Horrors (musical) plants. An ending more faithful to the stage version was filmed, in which the plant eats Audrey and Seymour and then, having grown to massive size and reproduced, goes on a King Kong-style rampage through New York City. It was received poorly by test audiences, and the upbeat alternate ending was used for the theatrical cut. In October 2012, the original ending was restored and released with the film as "The Director's Cut" on DVD and Blu-ray. A new song for Audrey II, "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space", was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Little
The Little Shop of Horrors was called upon to write music for Corman, Katz sold the same score as if it were new music. The score was used in a total of seven films, including "The Wasp Woman" and "Creature from the Haunted Sea". Katz explained that his music for the film was created by a music editor piecing together selections from other soundtracks that he had produced for Corman. Howard R. Cohen learned from Charles B. Griffith that when the film was being edited, "there was a point where two scenes would not cut together. It was just a visual jolt, and it didn't