The Little Shop of Horrors some distributors, including American International Pictures (AIP), felt that the film would be interpreted as anti-Semitic, citing the characters of Gravis Mushnick and Siddie Shiva. Welles, who is Jewish, stated that he gave his character a Turkish Jewish accent and mannerisms, and that he saw the humor of the film as playful, and felt there was no intent to defame any ethnic group. The film was finally released by its production company, The Filmgroup, nine months after it had been completed. "The Little Shop of Horrors" was screened out of competition at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. A year later,
The Suicide Shop (film) The Suicide Shop (film) The Suicide Shop () is a 2012 French animated film written and directed by Patrice Leconte and is based on Jean Teule's novel of the same name. It was released on 16 May 2012 in France. As with the source material, it centres on an undepressed child born into a proprietorial family that runs a shop that sells suicide adjuncts in a dilapidated, near future city. In a gloomy French city with a high suicide rate is a shop where you can find everything necessary to easily commit suicide in whatever manner you wish. This shop