The Little Mermaid (1989 film) "Oliver & Company". He proposed changing the minor character Clarence, the English-butler crab, to a Jamaican crab and shifting the music style throughout the film to reflect this. At the same time, Katzenberg, Clements, Musker, and Ashman revised the story format to make "Mermaid" a musical with a Broadway-style story structure, with the song sequences serving as the tentpoles of the film. Ashman and composer Alan Menken, both noted for their work as the writers of the successful Off-Broadway stage musical "Little Shop of Horrors", teamed up to compose the entire song score. In 1988, with "Oliver" out of the
The Sweet House of Horrors The Sweet House of Horrors The Sweet House of Horrors (in original Italian, La dolce casa degli orrori) is a 1989 Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci, made initially for Italian TV, but released direct-to-video instead when it was deemed too horrific for television. After being brutally murdered by a burglar, a young couple return as spirits to watch over their two young orphaned children. The ghosts also seek revenge against their murderer, and try to prevent their house from being demolished. Mary and Roberto Valdi (Lubka Cibolo and Pascal Persiano) return home from a party to find a