Nestorian Order Essay On Little Shop Of Horrors
Teaching the Scientific Method
The monster of Roger Corman's film The Little Shop of Horrors (Santa Clara Productions, 1960) is a plant. This creature is not a human or even an animal or insect. By focusing on a plant, the film may get to the heart of what monsters signify. Robot monsters such as the Terminator look human. Insect monsters like Alien give birth and, in the case of one film, earn the human label "Bitch." A plant, however, is more removed from human experience. On the screen, and on the stage in the contemporary Broadway musical, the plant figure suggests that human psychology shares a common anxiety: people want to control the world around them.
What is most frightening is the hand of fate, and people like to be scared. They enjoy watching fictional depictions of others like them caught in impossible situations. From classical Greek tragedies and Chinese operas to modern-day action films and horror flicks, they want to see themselves faced with the most......
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