The Little Shop of Horrors AIP distributed the film as the B movie for their release of Mario Bava's "Black Sunday". Despite being barely mentioned in advertising (it was only occasionally referred to as an "Added Attraction" to Bava's film), "Black Sunday"'s critical and commercial success resulted in positive word of mouth responses to "The Little Shop of Horrors". The film was re-released again the following year in a double feature with "Last Woman on Earth". Because Corman did not believe that "The Little Shop of Horrors" had much financial prospect after its initial theatrical run, he did not bother to copyright it, resulting in
Little Shop of Horrors (musical) Orin Scrivello, is killed by suffocation from laughing gas instead of being stabbed with a dental instrument as in the film. His abusive relationship with Audrey is added to the musical to give Seymour a motive to kill him. In the film, Seymour murders several innocent bystanders, and Mushnik tricks a thief into looking for money inside the plant, which eats the thief. In the musical, Seymour tricks Mushnik in the same way when Mushnik plans to turn Seymour over to the police. The two neighborhood girls in the film are replaced in the musical by a chorus of three