Little Shop Of Horrors / The Terror / The Wild Ride

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Gravis Mushnik's (Mel Welles) skid row flower shop is financially floundering, and he's ready to fire his inept assistant Seymour Krelborn (Jonathan Haze). But then Seymour shows Mr. Mushnik the unique, new plant species he's created called Audrey Jr. With visions of dollar bills, the opportunistic Mushnik uses the plant to draw people into his shop and is successful at drumming up business. But the plant soon begins to wither and Seymour fears that Audrey Jr. is going to dieunless he can figure out what it needs to grow. It seems like Seymour's problems are over when he accidentally cuts himself and a drop of blood lands on the plant, instantly reviving it. But as Audrey Jr. grows bigger, it demands more and more blood, forcing Seymour to go scouting for fresh human flesh. Luckily, Seymour won't have to go far, because on the seedy side of town there are plenty of undesirables who won't be missedlike Wilbur Force (Jack Nicholson), a pain-loving masochist. And then there's Seymour's psychotic, sadistic dentist

THE TERROR

When Napoleonic cavalry soldier Lt. Andre Duvalier (Jack Nicholson) becomes estranged from his unit, he comes upon a mysterious woman named Helene (Sandra Knight) along the coast of Germany. The lieutenant is immediately taken with Helene but quickly becomes suspicious of her actions. It seems as if she is leading him into deadly traps: the powerful ocean's tide and pits of quicksand. Things take an even stranger turn when Duvalier seeks refuge at a nearby castle maintained by a baron (Boris Karloff), and Helene unexpectedly appears there. The baron is convinced that Helene is the ghost of his long-departed wife Ilsa, but the lieutenant believes Helene is under a hypnotic spell cast by an old witch that is scheming against the baronslowly driving him to the brink of madness in an act of ruthless revenge

THE WILD RIDE

Johnny Varron (Jack Nicholson) is the tough-talking, fast-living leader of a California gang. And when his buddy Dave (Robert Bean) turns his back on their rowdy lifestyle for his straight-laced girlfriend Nancy (Georgianna Carter), Varron becomes bitterdirecting his wrath at innocent Nancy. Hoping to scare off the girl for good, Johnny kidnaps her. But when the law gets involved, the situation intensifies a hundred-fold. In an attempt to ditch the cops, Varron puts the pedal to the metaltaking Nancy and his police pursuers on one crazy, Wild Ride that has horribly fatal results.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 3 augusti, 2013