Queens Drive-In: Little Shop of Horrors + Beetlejuice (Double Feature)

1986. With Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin, Tisha Campbell, and the voice of Levi Stubbs. This charming horror comedy musical with rock, doo wop, and R&B melodies has delighted generations of diverse audiences. Based on the 1982 off-Broadway musical inspired by Roger Corman’s 1960 low-budget movie, the film follows Seymour (Moranis), a down-and-out flower-shop assistant who becomes a sensation when he discovers a venus flytrap-like plant that craves fresh human blood. Little Shop of Horrors is an irreverent marvel, featuring Oscar-nominated special effects and toe-tapping songs by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, who would go on to write the music for The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.

Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alex Baldwin and Winona Ryder star in director Tim Burton's comic twist on supernatural horror tales—Beetlejuice. When a couple of nice, young homebody ghosts (Baldwin and Davis) try to haunt the pretentious humans who have moved into their house, they ask for help from a demonic wraith (Keaton) they cannot control in this comic fantasy that mixes the quick and the dead with a laugh and a fright.