The Little Shop of Horrors work. And they needed something to bridge that moment. They found in the editing room a nice shot of the moon, and they cut it in, and it worked. Twenty years go by. I'm at the studio one day. Chuck comes running up to me, says, 'You've got to see this!' It was a magazine article—eight pages on the symbolism of the moon in "Little Shop of Horrors"." According to Corman, the total budget for the production was $30,000. Other sources estimate the budget to be between $22,000 and $100,000. Corman had initial trouble finding distribution for the film, as
Little Box of Horrors contains all four full-length releases by the band, all with their original artwork (American version). It also contains a fifth disc, entitled "Rare Treats", which features demo versions of many songs, as well as other rare songs by the band. The American release is accompanied by a DVD, entitled "The Transvestite Chainsaw Massacre: Live '98", which features footage of 9 songs performed live at Ground Zero, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1998. The band line-up at the time of the concert filmed for this DVD was as follows: Little Box of Horrors Little Box of Horrors is a box set