Little Shop of Horrors original ending 

It really must've pissed them off when they saw the movie and it was the other ending

Even it they went for the happy ending, I don't see why they could not incorporate this footage in some other way. For example, after we see the second Audrey II plant in Seymour's new garden smiling at the camera, we cut to the credits. During the credits, the same music and footage for "Don't Feed the Plants" is played, but occasionally cut together in ways that make it look like a Public Service Announcement. That way, you can still get your footage of Audrey II being sold around America, city destruction scenes, and lyrics warning us not to feed our "plants," but it would be left ambiguous as to whether the invasion really happened or if it was just a PSA to warn us of what might happen (in a similar manner as how America sometimes releases incredibly dramatic PSAs about certain illegal drugs, etc.).

Mark Cobuzzi holy crap where we you when the movie was in production?

Positively Dreadful are the 80 in that era did not exist the technology. the effects were made with animatronics I think: /

Positively Dreadful ssffsshqsfggghhjjhtetiwweefh

Yeah, you'd probably expect more from galactic flesh-voring Jumanji rejects

They don't need to constantly eat. That was a con. The more they eat they grow. They wanted to take over earth.

They’re still killing thousands of people in this ending

Ah yes. Because an entire train of people, a whole bridge, the entire city of Cleveland, and anyone in the at least a dozen cars being thrown around, are totally fine and lived long happy lives in the stomachs of these giant plants.

The laughing is weird

Tomeesha Haller They did actually screen this ending in theatres, around the same time as it came out on DVD.

OptimusPhillip How was I supposed to know it was the ending shown in theaters when I wasn't even born yet? I'm a 90's baby lol

Tomeesha Haller I meant when the Blu-Ray came out in 2012.

OptimusPhillip I'be never had a Blu-Ray so I didn't really know that one even came out. I also lived in a small town so I never heard about the alt. ending or got to see it until I found the video on RU-vid. Thanks for letting me know about it cause now the place where I live has one so I can buy it an Amazon or something.

HAHA😂😂😂

And those test audiences who watched the test screening that had the original ending really ruined the fun for everyone in theatrical, Huh?

Exactly!

​@@iusproductions9050 buncha babies if you ask me! This beats the stereotypical happy ending that made no sense.

Yup, it costed 5 million dollops methinks

In the trash. So upset this didn't make it in permanently.

Lol​@@olinja_

Test audiences hated it. It wasn't even finished then. It was fully restored and released in a directors cut edition in 2012.

froboythestud As mentioned, when they sneak previewed the film, the test audiences hated it.

It translated too darkly from the 1982 stage play.

sha11235 fucking test audiences from the 1980s

I don't think they decided to not use it, I think it was because test audiences hated it.

Jackie Rocha if Audrey catches you, you're now his dinner

On word. Fire

I always considered Audrey a she, since she's a mean green mother! ; p I know that's a saying too, but she does have a bunch of child sprouts. Who says aliens would have the same standard for what is a male or female voice ; p That said I'm guessing since it's a plant it may be both, since some plants are. That said I realize you could have been using gender neutral he. I'm mostly being silly/discussing ideas.

I feel like that might make for an awesome video game.

@@kioku119 Technically all plants are hermafrodites so it´s more of something in between the two. Anyway it doesn´t really matter, Audrey is cool either way

What if the alternate ending, which would appease the test audiences, went for a compromise between the two versions? At first, it would look like Seymour successfully killed the plant and saved his girlfriend to live happily ever after. Right when the audience thinks Seymour learned the error of his ways and stopped the alien just in time however, you find out that the same businessman already came along to collect Audrey II's saplings to create a new business, which Seymour now has no control over. The same ending as the original would play out, only with Seymour and Audrey unsuccessfully trying to make people boycott the plants on TV and singing their lines from the Broadway version of "Don't Feed The Plants," while protesting. Then, while the invasion is happening, we see Seymour witnessing the carnage from a distance and realizing that the consequences are catching up to him, it is still his fault for letting Audrey II live long enough to produce seeds, and all he can do is watch on unable to really fix it. Would this kind of ending work decently in your opinion? That way, all of the same themes of greed, disordered ambition, and blind consumerism are left intact. Plus, the film could add these other morals to its commentary: It can be possible to learn the error of your ways and turn your life around before it gets even worse; however, it is best not to make bargains with greed in the first place, since your actions can still have a negative cascade effect on future generations, even you yourself get out unharmed; it is up to each individual person not to give in to those vices since these temptations are everywhere and will always exist; while some people can resist these temptations, others will not develop any such moral compass, making this a constant trial throughout each generation that we will always be fighting.

actually it wasn't a 100% happy ending with no consequence. Remember the final shot in that ending was of an Audrey 2 hiding in the garden, hinting that even having stopped the original back in the shop there were still others out there and the threat wasn't over.

+Mark Cobuzzi That's actually a pretty cool idea.

That would be a pretty awesome sequel (if they did it)

Actually it has similarity’s to the 1960 film and has scrapped songs from the 1986 film and has a rap battle at the climax

This ending would be ESPECIALLY spectacular in 3D!

Yeah, they just knew that they wouldn't have scared audience members so much with the happy ending, and that there'd be alot of kids interested in seeing a movie about a talking singing plant, as I was at the time, and that sticking with this ending may've given many kids nightmares, and that's what the movie producers were thinking of. But the thing is is that was this really a kids movie anyway? I was a kid when it came out and I liked the movie, but even without the less happy ending, there were other dark parts of the movie such as with Steve Martin's dentist, both with how he ran his practice and with what ultimately happened to him. He literally laughs himself to death with an overdose of nitrous, and is then literally chopped up and fed to the plant.

@@jeffzebert4982 Yeah, it would be. They should make a youtube video of this ending with 3D imaging. Also, see my above comment

Also proves that humanity is screwed at the end.

yup XD

"If we fight them we still got a chance!" That means that while it may seem grim, there is still hope for humanity yet.

DON'T FORGET AUDREY 2 BROKEN THROUGH THE SCREEN AND EATS YOU

Good idea.

Eu gosto dos velhos na cama 😍

Too late

And when it said "The End", it was followed by "?!?". Huh. Would've been AWESOME to see a sequel!

The song does say that, but the visuals pretty much look like humanity is screwed. Never paid attention to the opening narrative, though. The line is "If we fight it, we've still got a chance."

***** This movie also included sexual jokes eferences, domestic abuse, and other dark themes. I don't think children were their intended audience,

***** that's the parents' job. not the filmmakers.

agizzy23 Agreed.

Forget them! GET THE INSECTICONS; THEY'LL EAT ANY PLANT!

wouldn't that make the problem worse. Sure they can eat Audrey 2 and all his plants but won't the insecticons cause more damage by eating the buildings afterwards

btw this film is the prequel to Godzilla vs. Biollante

RayMKlll FORGET THEM! CALL THE GHOSTBUSTERS!

Lol

Rylie Brausam In what way, might I ask?

If we're going with the general idea of the story, I don't think Seymour would just suddenly be like 'lol nah I'm all moral now.' It could be because I grew up with the movie, but a fairy tale ending didn't seem right for such a dark movie, you know?

Rylie Brausam Well, he is never comfortable living with the guilt of feeding Orin and Mushnik to the plant, remember? He says that. So I don't get your reasoning.

True, you have a point. I suppose I'm thinking of the musical, rather than the movie. I think the directors cut ending is good for the movie, but when it comes to the musical, I prefer this ending.

sha11235 The reason it makes more sense is because Seymour is a very meek character. It's quite odd for such a meek character to kill such a strong creature. Also, once you know the true ending to this musical, just seeing Audrey II get killed by a collapsing ceiling just doesn't add up.

That's actually a great idea, where you go round and you have to shoot the plants as they invest the city like with laser guns or something.

What about a Arcade Game?

Here's a challenge, no CGI. It must be designed like Kongfrontation, Twister, and all of the pratical effects rides you've closed, Universal!!

culdee4 So just turn the MIB ride into that

Aidenj5john i would go on that ride for the entire day

Michael Beaudoin WHAT WAS THE DAMN LESSON IN THIS STORY? THAT IT WAS OKAY TO JUST STAY IN POVERTY?

But he didn't do any of the killing. He just happened to be there when they died. He really was a good man at heart.He though the plant was his friend, and when he realized the truth he killed it, in the revised ending.

sha11235 It wasn't so much a lesson, but Audrey II seems like a metaphor for ambition, the social ladder, and what it costs, especially if shortcuts are taken.

OBJECTION!!!! The character of Seymour Contradicts his movie counterpart. Here I present the evidence, of in the play, all the characters WERE bad people. While in the movie, Seymour IS NOT a bad person. The play forced you to root for the plants, as all the characters were bad people. But in the movie! Seymour and Audrey are NOT bad people. Audrey and Seymour are both innocent, and made relatively good decisions. If you had seen the play! You would know you were SUPPOSED to root for the plant (no pun intended), but in the movie you were supposed to root for Seymour, the hero. In the play, Seymour is an anti-hero. But in the movie! He IS the hero. He chopped up a body. He didn't kill anyone. In the play he in cold blood kills people, and barely shows remorse. Obviously a contradiction...

I have seen the live musical and the movie. In both versions, Seymour was tempted to do bad things in order to get what he wanted. He was definitely not completely innocent. For example, in both the play and the movie, he tricks Mr. Mushnik to look in the plant saying that he put the money in there. He as good as killed him. He even admits at one point that signing all of the contracts means that he will have to keep doing awful things just to keep the plant alive so Audrey would like him... And he signs the contracts! He sells his soul for his own selfish desires and ultimately loses everything. Both the movie and the play warn of the dangers of taking shortcuts or doing the wrong thing in order to fulfill your own selfish ambitions. This ending wins.

This is following up to the original script that frank oz changed where Seymour is eaten by the plant and they cut off his tinier plant characters and sell them all as part of his plan for invasion

Spastic pug I know... Mind just blanked there O_o

I'd imagine they've gotten much stronger since Seymour wasn't able to electrocute them. So they probably grew resistant to electricity.

welcome to film spoof logic

Nah some of them probably did but it would have been lame to show XD

Gerald Spencer but i whould most likely die becuase they need blood of humen to live an Seymour would know what whould happen So he will kill it

Yeah and it smiled then come credits

CoolConner 307 yeah but think of the implication. If that one tiny Audrey two was plants there by a rando neighbor then that means Audrey twos seeds were sold across the country so there wouldn't really be anything seemore could do to stop it.

Basically in the theatrical ending that even though that Seymour, Audrey and the rest of the humans lived all happily ever in the end, There's still evil hiding in the shadows, growing slowly and productively, waiting it's chance to strike again... But oh well, We never gotten a sequel but that's fine, We have the original dark ending!

@@iusproductions9050 you think this is dark? You haven’t seen the original screenplay ending.

Maybe a cinema will release this movie with this ending in 3D, it happened for Jurassic Park so why not for this?

The director's cut DVD does give you options.

OptimusPhillip I found out the Blu-Ray version does

Dragonrider1227 The thing was it was previewed by audiences, who didn't like it. They turned stony silent after enjoying the earlier songs.

sha11235 Yeah, I know the story behind the change. It actually doesn't surprise me. I don't think tragic endings were the thing in the 80s. I know Rambo was intended to have a more tragic ending too and was met with the same result. The only one I know of that did it and worked was Amedaus.

Dragonrider1227 This isn't the only time this has happened. The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers originally didn't have the narration and the flashback structure and ended with Binell on the highway shouting and nobody listening. Audiences didn't like that so they changed the ending to something more positive. Of course, when they remade the film in 1978, they used a darker ending-I don't know why.

LittleFlameMaster most of them died however the ones with owners like Seymour were able to take over and breed now strong to protect their offspring.

People didn't know that the plants were eating people. Like Seymour, he didn't know until he died. All people knew is that the needed blood. They most likely didn't kill people but slit their bodies in some way to feed them more. They most likely eventually died and the plant ate their remains.

My question is HOW THE FUCK THEY GETTING THESE PLANTS FROM!?

The plants can eat animal meat but they are trolls and manipulate people.

@@Chalastor146 they are aliens

You know people just stand there gap-jawed at the first time they see something they can't perceive as real. They just stand there like, "Is this really happening right now? Are we really seeing this?" People usually get eaten before they can catch on.

Quintin Gay People bought plants, that drink human blood.

***** they do eat them if you accualy watcged the film you would knw that but they started by drinking blood thought

baccaplayzgamez What?

XXLSSBBW also there inmortal the only way to kill them is like seymor did SHOCK THEM TILL THE POP XD (also they regenerate that whati mean as imortal nad if you shock pop them they have nothing to regenerate with they will just be dust no heart)

I'm tired of "Too Many Cooks", honestly. You wouldn't believe how many times I heard that on [adult swim].

Quintin Gay I agree, but it's errie how the two clips line up.

+Jesse Jamison You've heard about how the brain tricks us into seeing rhythm in movements, right? Especially when there are two musical sequences with rhythm. Vsauce did a great video about that. I think it was in the "coincedences" episode.

+Snowflake Productions Here-here!

Very valid point indeed.

because its a movie, and most people are dumb in media

Because they start out cute. People are easily fooled by cute novelty items.

did you see how many they sold? even if not every single one made it its more than enough to get that many giant ones, especially in the chaos after lol

Actually, the "ending" is 23 minutes long, if you include the alternate final battle, which many do.

Me too. I'd probably be running around the house cutting every plant to pieces up to this day if I saw this when I was younger.

+E-Man5805 Wow, you guys were wimpy kids.

***** Excuse me? I AM A FAN OF THE ORIGINAL ENDING!!! I was arguing against the "This would have scared the children" argument made on every one of these videos.

PyroGothNerd I don't know about other children. It WOULD have scared me. And I never said it was a bad thing.

Yes I liked my own comment

This is the ending completed and fully restored. When originally shown it wasn't finished. This was released in a directors cut edition that came out about a year ago.

Cameron Will The film got a DVD debut in late 1997 as part of Geffen's 11th anniversary release.(Yes as early as 1997) This R1 release contained the alternate ending. The Ending was entirely in B&W. Geffen recalled the '97 masters and re-issued the DVD in 2006 with bits and pieces of the dark ending as well as a description of it. The 2013 BD release has the option of letting you watch the dark ending or happy ending.

I agree with DeepEye, they could have made the happy ending without wasting the scene. I would have countinued it with Seymour waking up just after the building collapsed, revealing to the audience that it was a short dream that he had while he was unconscious and then go with the happy ending.

That's a pretty interesting concept. This could probably be at the point where he's approached by Patrick Martin and that sequence could be used. But some things would have to be changed around or even cut for that.

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YOU'RE GONNA NEED MORE THAN ONE GIANT CATERPILLAR, 'CAUSE I'M A MEAN GREEN MOTHER FROM OUTER SPACE!

+JonathanToolonie CALL A ARMY OF PYROS

NO! NOT THE PYROS!!!

Xp the plant just turns to vegetable fries GET IT?!?

Same

Hollywood never kills a dog on screen!!!

Boomer will live.

Cameron Will Yeah, they are chicken fuckers.

I fifth that. (Normally I would second it, but it would appear I've been beaten to the proverbial punch.)

Actually Frank Oz did the laughter, he's used that same laugh for several Muppet characters he performed.

They should've put you on the team because that is brilliant! Lol. I like both endings. They definitely should've placed this somewhere in the movie. It's too epic to just go to waste.

Back then, if they left this ending in, we wouldn't be able to see this movie today. Having shown this ending to two different test audiences and getting only a 13% approval rating, this entire movie would be on the cutting room floor if they kept it, so it had to be changed. I'll admit, they put a lot of work into making this ending, but having Seymour and Audrey killed off was pretty mean.

Yup. And it actually matches with the story's message.

Ben Yu they would probably maul godzilla.

Why only New York

I absolutely agree with you there, I couldn't have put it better myself.

but in film logic Seymour steals another mans girlfriend and kills a bunch of people, he kinda deserves to die

ricarleite Yeah Seymour murder 2 people.. this was kinda the ending he deserved.. Audrey II was kinda the main character anyway! I love this ending, it's so awesome.

audiences usually hate dark endings & dey almost always hate question marks too, so ima bet tha final shot alone, as hilarious & grim as it is, pissed off tha films normie test audience to no end

Dude im 10 and i watched this 12 times and since it was labeled "comedy" I got scared of nothing

I guess humanity said FUCK THIS! And retreated to bunkers

As a vegan I think it's hilarious and brilliant ;)

Nice comment, but it was NOT colorized. It IS in color for real.

Bobsheaux The whole film was in color so this is not colorization.

Chris Mulwee Correct. The 1997 DVD release alternate ending was in full B&W.

Tornado1994 I can't imagine why though, since it was produced in color

Chris Mulwee While it was filmed in color, the B&W was to give it a surreal tone. Also, Test Audiences did not see the dark ending in color, but in B&W.

Pan Cytryna so...?

This is one of the coolest endings ever. How could anyone hate it?

I only started to feel bad when I saw the little puppy running

Aabc Dee Lol yeah. That was a cute little pup! ^^

cryhog

If LSOH was a straight monster destruction movie it would have been great. But it's a musical based on a B horror movie and generally musicals have different beats then horror movies. The ending could have been a negative, had they ended with Seymour being eaten by Audrey 2 that would have worked. What didn't work was the big budge ending with a bunch alien plants taking over the world. That wasn't what the musical was about. It was about Seymour and Audrey and Audrey 2 manipulating him.

he did watch Godzilla vs Biollante

He would just make everything worse

Can't be too careful.... FEED ME!

@@amyjewel8840 LOL