In phineas and ferb, the dad is watching a horror movie and confused why there are no musical numbers, he is played by Richard O'brien, which makes it obvious that it is a reference.
@@Th3Ruhl 1. I agree, he's so great! Yet I love all the others, too, a perfect cast altogether. 2. You probably know that, but it was completely obvious what you meant. Let's just say, YOU are not the one who speaks a different English language 😉...
Tim Curry is amazing in this movie. They definitely cast the right people. The actors are amazing. Everyone should see this at least once. It's timeless fun.
I will never understand how some fans go from the original campy, ironic attitude of cult viewers ("it's so bad it's good") to actually thinking it' is a well, cast, well-made movie. I think you've really missed the entire point.
Agreed. While many films achieved "cult status" long before RHPS, it became the film for which the term "cult movie" was invented and yes, set the standard!
Absolutely. I've loved it since the first time I saw it in high school back in early 90s. I've been to the live shows dressed as Columbia and had some of the most fun ever there. Wish they did it more often where I live
theres truly nothing like the feeling you get when it gets to "I'm Going Home" and everyone sings along just a little louder and emotionally than they were before
I’m Going Home is objectively one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. It sucks you out of the movie, Tim Curry’s performance is emotional and outstanding. Like, yeah, we saw him acting through the whole movie - but the THEATRICS of I’m Going Home is what sells you on him as a performer.
I think everyone male, female, child, grown up...doesn't matter...EVERYONE should see this in a theater with all the theatrics and all the food throwing...it's probably one of the best experiences I've had and there's nothing like it
I always watched the movie in my living room, usually after a night of imbibing adult beverage. Didn't lose my RHPC virginity until about 24 but it was worth it.
I saw Rocky Horror for the first time at a midnight show in 1978 when I was 16 and a lot of people had newspapers, rice, squirt guns and some were dressed up. I can’t think of another movie that’s getting more popular the older it gets.
Same thing still happens where I live! The entire audience has a prop kit! The only thing we don’t have are water guns, but the workers themselves are the ones who come running in and squirting the water everywhere for us!
It's not just the US either. I live in New Zealand and the local theatre has a Rocky Horror Midnight screening every 3 months, with a dedicated shadow cast that is fully rehearsed and staged, and prop kits available for sale at the door. There is even a costume contest that I am proud to say I have won on 3 occasions and sometimes they even get local Drag artists to do an opening act.
Yes!!! Me and my mum went to a showing and then I took my best friend to another one! I love the props kits and the little games they do beforehand for the ‘virgins’ lmao.
Wish they put this on in my area more often. They only do it for like a week or so around Halloween. I've seen the movie an unfathomable amount of times, sadly only seen it live a handful of times. I want to go every Halloween but my husband is a freak and loathes this movie(I know why did I marry him 🤔) but he also refuses to actually watch it all the way thru with an open mind, and he won't g I with me and would have a bunch to say if I went alone. Every year I say I'm going and Halloween comes and goes and I didn't get to see it another year🙁☹️🥺😢😭
Fun fact: rice is no longer allowed in touring productions of Rocky Horror. Paper by all means, but if you take rice, the staff are instructed to take it from you.
Where I work we had to confiscate Kit Kats (Thrown at the line "I had to take a break!") yet the sweet foyer was selling them!!! Clearing up afterwards we would find discarded rubber gloves,newspapers,rice,water pistols,playing cards ("Cards for sorrow...cards for pain"),party hats,party blowers,confetti,tape measures,corkscrews,even mushed up apple pies ("Your apple pie doesn't taste too nice") and even a Titanic rubber ring.
But Rocky Horror is _so_ much more than great music. I agree it’s great music, but also a cheesy story, amazing characters, fabulous costumes, sexy, funny and so unique.
Since 1986, Rocky Horror has been a major friend to me. I still see it once a month. I have been over 200 times. As a teen, I was coming to terms with my sexuality. I had to do so in a time where gays were public enemy one, with the AIDS crisis. People were okay with deaths in my community. Some even with glee...Ronald Reagon (Ronald Reagan also lol). I was at home with the RHPS crowd. Not all the fans are gays, and yet accepted me. I think that's why my dad took me when I was almost sixteen. To give me a place where I felt safe being me. I had PTSD then, and serious depression. I tried to take my life. I spent much time in the hospital. I knew keeping secrets would kill me, so I started opening up. Swing Out Sister deserves some credit for my "Breakout", but so does Rocky Horror. By that time, I had the album of the full movie. I had been like a dozen times at that point. At that time, I know the movie by heart. But one only needs to take on line "Don't dream it, Be it". Richard got it from a sexy undie ad, but it is truth. I'm over 50 now, and I have finally found peace. I owe myself credit for the years of work to overcome my stuff. But RHPS saved my life. That's not an exaggeration. When my mood is as "dark as pitch", RHPS causes me sing and dance to it. Every day one can utter a line from the movie to express how they feel, sometimes sarcastically. We can quote as an affirmation. I know it all sounds crazy, but Richard O'Brian's creation for self soothing has soothed the world. I love her for it.
Never happened. No one had glee gays were dying. Such a victim grift. People were heartbroken. Its was incredibly sad for everyone. Stop demonizing straights.
@FaeLand Thank You! That reply was so long ago. They basically said gay vilification never was a thing, and I was lying. Or at least exaggerating. I was outed in high school and constantly bullied. I could see rage in people's eyes at my mannerisms. I felt like I couldn't go anywhere. Nationally, well I talked about that. That was all very real. Perhaps they were not homophobic, but people in privilege often try to dictate the status quo. Maybe they assume everybody sees things the way they do. I don't know, it was very rude. I'm going to be in Washington DC tomorrow night, so I'm going to see Rocky Horror. Check out their cast. Maybe I'll pick up a couple new lines. Thank you again for your kind words. It really does mean a lot to me. You take care too.
Thank you for sharing your story! The comment section can be an ugly place sometimes, but personal stories like this are just beautiful. I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness and heard a lot of sermons against "fornication" and "desires of the flesh" and this was the first movie that introduced me to the idea that sex is not evil, its the dogmatic repression of one's sexuality that's harmful. It's such a silly and goofy movie, but it has such a sincere message that has resonated with so many fans across generations, races, nationalities and spectrums of gender and sexuality.
I'll always remember the halloween night I first seen this movie. My mum noticed it on TV late at night and told me I needed to see it. She and her best friend went to see it in their teens multiple times when it came out at the drive in theatre. I ended up taking her and her best friend to see a showing at that exact drive in a few years ago. It will be forever one of my favourite movies with my mum.
Me too! I grew up watching it since I was like 5 with my mum. At first it was purely bc I loved dancing it the time warp, but as I grew older and understood more I loved the more more for its whole self and the memories I made with my mum watching it. I then took her to a theatre showing of it earlier this year too. Good memories
At Museum Lichtspiele in Munich, Germany, The Rocky Horror Picture Show runs weekly since June 24th 1977. Sparklers aren't allowed anymore because they're a fire hazard.
I saw it first in Arizona at a theatre on the edge of the U of A, had no idea what I was getting into. Then while stationed on Ramstein AFB in Germany, a friend of mine and I were wandering around K-town (if you were stationed in the area, you'll get that) and saw it was playing at the local theater as their regular bill... 1985 or so... it was weird watching it with ZERO audience participation, everyone just sitting there politely watching the movie.
My grandmother originally got me into Rocky Horror by giving me a copy on VHS when I was about 3 or 4, then bought me a collectors edition VHS for my 6th birthday but got it early. Safe to say my parents weren't impressed when it quickly became my favourite movie 😅 Nana still has her Magenta costume, her and her friends used to go and see the midnight screening in George St in Sydney every week back in the day
My sister took me to see a showing when i was 18. The cosplayer of Dr. Frankenfurter was spot on! Only later i realized why he looked familiar, he was my neighbor (a very quiet, serious, security guard)!!! Never forget that night.
I’m on a Rocky Horror cast that performs at an Alamo Drafthouse in Denton, Texas! The theater has a huge “Denton, Home of Happiness” sign in the lobby. If you’re in the area, come see Los Bastardos!
Just the fact that this movie promotes audience participation and makes us the fans part of it like we're co stars and accepts all of us no matter of our races creeds colors and sexualities and has props and yelling and allows this plus the music and acting makes it a necessary and much needed cult movie
This gay ass show saved my life. I'll never forget being in the shadow cast for the first time. These songs sound like freedom to me. Watching Frank float in that pool singing "don't dream it, be it" finally gave me the courage to decide to cut my hair and embrace myself fully. I've been laughed at before for the depth of the feeling I have towards Rocky Horror Picture Show but I don't care, it made me feel seen
There was a theater in San Diego, that played the movie every Sunday night at midnight. The first couple of times I went to watch the movie. From then on I brought my water dun, rice, and the other things, and watched the people in costume, act out the movie. This is my favorite movie.
I knew about the 'Time Warp' song since I was a toddler as it was included in a Halloween song mixtape but it wasn't until I was 18 and on a sailing trip on the Isle of Wight with my LGBT+ Youth Group when I first watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show and it just blew my mind. When I got home I bought the DVD and watched the film so many times I've lost track. For ages I wanted to see the live show but it always wasn't playing near me even when I went to university it somehow was playing near my hometown and vice versa. However 2 years ago I coincidencetly managed to see the show live in my uni town, after my friend posted a link on FB of an article in the city paper saying that evangelist Christians were protesting the show playing in the theatre for fears it would "corrupt the youths' souls" naturally I bought a ticket for the following night reused and bought a few items to create a Frank n Furter costume and the next night I put on my costume/ make up a took a taxi to the theatre. Outside the protesters were still there hurling abuse and threats to the theatre goers dressed up to see the show, I got out the taxi and was walking up the steps to the doors an a protester a guy about early 30s yelled to me " You're going to burn in hell!!" I laughed and replied cheerfully "At least I will look fabulous anyways" and just walked in. The play was amazing, the fellow fans were great and asked if I could be in pictures with them as I was the only one dressed as Frank and the cast afterwards were so lovely and sweet to us group of fans who went to the stage door and they chatted with us, took photographs with us and they all signed their signatures in my tour programme. Simply put The Rocky Horror Picture Show is just brilliant and changed my life completely.
Ugh. I'm from KC, and the Westboro Baptist Church chuds have easily crashed 75% of my collective concert- going experience (up to thirty-ish by my 21st birthday) a few family-oriented events after my husband and I settled down and started our family (The Harlem Globetrotters, Disney on Ice, etc.) and even some high school/college graduations, including my own. WAY before the cracks really started to show in the early 2010's (coinciding with the patriarch Fred Phelps' decline) they had already long since succumbed to the law of diminishing returns by their own hand. Because they oversaturated everything in the area for so long, 99.999% of the time the only reaction they could get from natives at that point was a snicker and/or an eye roll. (If they got one at all.) But I never saw them at our theater for RHPS!
This movie has such a special place in my heart. My high school theatre troupe did the Time Warp as warm up before each show. I didn't know the dance was from a movie until college when I saw the movie. My dorm did an annual screening with full casting and that was when I experience a theater screening for the fist time. We all went as a cast so we knew what the experience was like. It's campy, sincere, and I wouldn't change a thing about it. Thank you to everyone who helped this film get made, you've given us so very much.
I have made it a "tradition" for myself to watch Rocky Horror at least once every October in theaters. Its always so fun and one of the best things you can do for Halloween. I would also recommend bringing friends that haven't experienced it (especially exchange students) Everyone ends up having so much fun.
I just saw my first Rocky horror live show yesterday with my partner- I had never seen the movie before at all, so that being my first time seeing it was definitely a fun experience- it was so nice seeing all the people dressed up and excited for the show. They gave as all these little goodie bags full of props, like the rice, party hats, noise makers etc- it was very fun!
Funnily enough, my first introduction to Rocky Horror was a cassette of the soundtrack that my parents owned. I was too young to see the film, but I would often take my parents music as a little kid and listen to it myself, and I was always very intrigued by the soundtrack of Rocky Horror. It was the only musical soundtrack we owned, so I would hear the talking during songs and wonder ‘what’s happening here’. When I first saw the film as a teenager I was blown away. I had an image in my mind of what it was like, based purely on the songs, and was nervous that it would disappoint me. Because I was dying of anticip….. ation! Thankfully it was everything I hoped it would be and more, it’s still one of my favourites to this day. Just thought I’d share this random little story of how I found myself a part of the cult following from quite a young age!
I am 43 and was introduced to this at 16, around the same time the adventures of precilla queen of the desert came out and both have stay close to my heart ever since
First time I ever saw this movie, my best friend & I in high school rented it. We watched and after it ended, we looked at each other and said "What the hell was that?!" and just laughed. It was so bizarre and made zero sense. But then I watched it again... and again.... and again... and it made more sense with each viewing. And finally I got to go to a screening with a shadowcast performing and it was one of the best things ever. It was just a big party.
I don’t live in the US so it’s much more difficult to see these kind of things here, but I went to see the show live in a theater and still people dressed up and shouted back at particular times and threw things to the stage. I loved it, it was so fun, I felt part of something special.
For me , what makes me Love Rocky horror is the sci fi elemnts. i love the refrences to old B movies and nods to Frankenstien and King Kong. I am a delf proclaimed movie buff so this movie and soundtrack is the perfect way to express myself.
I had seen that a theater nearby was showing rocky horror on Halloween night, so me and a friend got tickets. What we saw was... Not what we expected at all. This video explains so much about it though, I had no idea about the shadow performances and community built a around such a great movie. Very interesting and informative video!
I first went when I was 16 and it was monumental moment as 2 years later when it returned I’d see a friends post about auditions and thought I’d stop by just to give it a chance. Turns out I was the last part they needed and was to play Rocky. I hit the gym, Got some gold undies, and put on my old gold wrestling shoes. It was one of the most fun nights of my life performing with faces I hardly knew but grew so comfortable with. The director told me he did shows monthly a few hours north of where I lived, and so I began regularly driving 2 hours north once a month to go shadow cast at a small theater that could barely hold 50 people. Sometimes it was packed, sometimes there was 5 people. Every time it was a blast, sadly I stopped going when I moved away for a few years. As soon as I got back in town though, my old director told me there was always a spot and that I’m always welcome home. Such a loving community with amazing people.
My dad showed me the movie when I was 16 right before taking me to a showing at our local theater. That was 10 years ago and I have gone to showings every year since. I've cosplayed as nearly every character including multiple iterations of Frank, I've entered costume contests, unofficially shadow casted as Janet, and I've been the only one yelling callback lines at a show before. RHPS is so special to me especially since it is something that my dad introduced me to. My little sister is 16 now and I am hoping to introduce her to it as well. I also just finished getting a huge RHPS tribute tattoo this year (it took around 6 months to finish). I am very happy to bring the love of this film and continue its cult following into the next generations!
I'm watching this now, when I've been officially casted to play Eddie in the production of Rocky my university is doing. It's amazing to me how much this show has touched people's lives -- I know it's certainly touched mine in creating a space where I don't have to be afraid to be myself -- and I'm thrilled to be a part of continuing this tradition :)
Just watched it for the first time last night and it really hit me and now it's definitely up in my top favorite musicals. While it didn't introduce me to my sexuality, I noticed that it made me feel more confident in being bi sexual. Count me in on the midnight showings when covids done lol!
Another thing Rocky Horror may or may not do (it does) is give people who are ordinary (Brad and Jane) and allow them a couple hours of freedom with people who do not judge you to be the version of yourself you cannot always be or are afraid to be. It gives them to courage to break free, even if just a little and just a little while.
I grew up watching it with my mum and her telling me how she went to a live showing when she was younger, and then earlier this year me and my mum went to a late night picture show of it for the first time together and I then took my bestie another night. It’s truly fun to interact and be part of such a night. We you can dress however and you fit right into it all.
When i moved to Europe, one of the first 'sites' I saw on the way to my hostelry was a huge marquee for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I was so happy, and that German group was even more fun to experience the movie than we Americans :v
another thing is when you go to see rocky in a cinema or theatre for the first time, you don't know what to yell at the right times, it feels like everyone got a script you weren't filled in on, so it only makes you wanna go back now you know what to say so you can feel like a part of it again and again.
While I've only seen the movie at home by myself numerous times, I never had the chance to see it with a live audience until the summer of 2019 at GalaxyCon Raleigh as I was visiting North Carolina from California for both the con and for family- as in, it was hosted in the convention center's ballroom on the third floor and the crowd was huge. One of the biggest highlights that night was for "Don't Dream It, Be It" as the Frank-N-Furter shadow performer had a crowd of volunteers (us audience members) stand and act as his "pool". And yes, I was one of the volunteers that was in the crowd. It was great. Also I ended up looking like a hot mess by the end- lipstick running down my forehead, my hair covered in confetti and rice and at least one toilet paper wrapped around my neck like a scarf. Worth it!
I just love that it challenges reality... art is anything that makes you think, "ya know, the world is not like I thought it was"... and this def did that for me.... love it.
In 8th grade, we were about 15-16 years old, our teacher took us to the theatre to watch TRHPS. He told us to take rice, water guns and all that stuff with us. We didn't know what to expect. It soundend strange. But in the end it was a lot of fun.
Shock Treatment was SO ahead of it’s time and is even more relevant today than it was when it came out. It is a brilliant satire of American culture and where we were heading and it has all come true and then some if you think about it. Reality TV, social media, politics. It’s almost scary if you go back and watch it now.
I went to a midnight screening with my family my mom has always been a huge fan. And even being a generally shy person I had a lot of fun singing and dancing.
my first experince with RHPS was a midnight sing along screening and wow, the energy was palpable and it was honestly one of my most memorable cinema experiences
There's actually a sequel to the film called Shock Treatment. Not many of the original cast from the film appear but a lot of the cast from the stage musical appear such as the cop who played Brad, Ralph Hapschatt who played as Brad's friend from the beginning of the musical, and a few others. I actually like it more than Rocky Horror Picture Show
I'd like to see how this might've developed as a cult/fan cinema experience...how would folks dress, which lines would they respond to, what kind of props would they bring? also hoped this would've been a good stage-show but don't know if it ever happened. the big difference with the play to screen translation of Rocky was that a great many rougher patches could be worked out before it got the bigger budget screen treatment, whereas Shock Treatment didn't get to be a stage play first. and given the story's reliance on tv screens it would've been a harder and more expensive thing to do on stage back in the early 80's. actually quite a lot of the Rocky cast and crew returned for Shock Treatment but most obviously absent were the original Brad and Janet and of course no Frankenfurter. But Richard O'Brien, little Nell, Patricia Quinn, Charles Grey were back as different characters, and joining them, Barry Humphreys and Ruby Wax. i think Shock treatment is a great fun film with a sensational soundtrack but it seems much maligned for NOT being TRHPS rather than looked at on its own merits.
The first time I saw this movie, when it showed up somehow, somewhere, I freaked out. I only understood about half of what I saw. So I watched it again. And again. By then I understood about 98 percent of it. I took a date to watch it. She didn't understand it either. But we had a great time. I also took her to where they acted it out, a first for both of us. People throwing rice, using props, quoting lines out loud, acting the movie out in front of the screen isn't a normal movie crowd and usually taboo. Let me just sum up my opinion of this movie. It's fantastic. Everyone should see this movie. Not for political, social agenda reasons. Just because you'll have a night you'll never forget. Isn't that the best you can expect from entertainment?
I attended the 15th Anniversary show at Fox Studios. It was a *trip.* Susan Sarandon didn't show, but everybody else did. Bostwick threw some sass at the crowd, and Curry quipped about how he was the only one there *not* dressed like him. :D
Once a semester, my college does a midnight screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show and has a whole shadow cast who dresses up as the characters and performs. I love going
I first saw this film in 1986 not long after I left school. I instantly fell in love with it, with the songs, the characters...... a love afair that continues to this day!
I've watched this movie multiple times since I was in middle school but only went to my first screening this past Halloween. Probably some of the most fun I've ever had, highly recommend going 👄
My mom grew up going to the screenings in the 70s and in the last few years there have been live shows in my city and it has become a tradition to see it every Halloween. Sometimes you get professional stage actors, most of the time it is amateurs who can't sing but it is always a ton of fun!
I remember when my kid was 15 and iPods were new and she asked to search for music to download from my desktop computer and first thing she snagged was the soundtrack from rocky horror picture show. The pride that swelled within me is memorable. I was a regular every Saturday night in 1978 and 79
I JUST watched this movie (which was a journey in and of itself as I can't pay for a legal viewing) because I wanted to see what the fuss was about and why it's so heavily referenced in a lot of other media, and boy, I loved it. I knew it was gonna be a treat but I really wasn't expecting it to resonate so well with me. Really hoping one day I get to see it in a show with other fans because the experience just sounds so amazing.
Not all cult-classic films have followings and rituals like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Some are just initially obscure films that gained some dedicated but solitary video viewers over the years.
Went to my first experience a few weeks ago. Dressed to the nine. And threw all the things and said all things. It was glorious and glamorous and so much fun! It was the first one in my city ever and hopefully means it won't be the last! :) I did feel absolutely horrible for the theater workers who had to clean up so we tipped what we could 😊
I love this movie man. Went to my first live show down at Egyptian Theater for the first time last month and I’m definitely gonna do it again next year. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a shit ton of fun and a great watch. I remember throwing a sponge when Columbia snapped at Frank calling him a sponge.
I saw Rocky Horror 367 times back in the day. Honestly, I feel too old to go today, because I don’t want to be the old lady that we used to comment about. It shows every Saturday night here, and everywhere I’ve been in the U.S.
I’m almost 60. My husband and I always go when Rocky Horror is in our local city. We met thanks to to Rocky Horror. We will never stop going. Only last weekend we were at the theatre. I was Trixie the usherette and my husband was Dr Scott, complete with high heels and stockings. I was also there on the previous Monday with my editor, I was Colombier on the Monday. I don’t even know how many times I’ve seen this. Edited to add: go next time it’s in your hometown. If you’re a real Rocky fan, you’ll know nobody judges the others, fans or virgins.
@@JulieWallis1963 Nice! Where are you that it plays so often? I played Frank in a cast for 4 years (1987 to 1991) in Newport Beach, CA. It was my life for so long... I'm 53 and also went... they finally showed it here in Seattle on Halloween 2019. So glad I went.
The theater in my town does it every valentines day weekend(on whatever weekend is closer t the day.) I went to see it on a first date. Previous to that I had never gone in person, but I had such a fun time with the props. It rained on it's own, but they gave us newspapers to cover ourselves lol. it really is a great production, no matter how you watch it. and i encourage anyone to watch it if they get the chance.
Took my boyfriend with me to a showing and he was amazed by how many people were dressed up and how much energy was in the theater with people throwing props or yelling at the screen
I saw it in a theater once. Once. I didn't get the appeal. That's fine, just because it didn't click for me doesn't mean other people aren't permitted to click.
my local shadowcast has like, $2 prop kits they sell to the lines at their monthly showings, along with buttons and other merch. my first time going made me fall in love with the movie and the fanbase and i even got initiated as a certified slut
I think audience participation is evolving. My partner an I went to see the stage show AGAIN and people in the audience were shouting things I'd never heard previously.
Richard O'Brien wrote the _Rocky Horror Show_ . Picture was later added to the movie. I am also slightly disappointed that you missed that in "Fame" the theatre students go to a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening.
my friend took me once several years ago, they put the lipstick V on my cheek and it was so funny and vibrant watching all the responses and crazy stuff people threw. the passion in the fans is so incredible.
I remember how crummy the print was in the DC theaters that we went to when I was in college. It was crackly and had bumps and breaks which became part of the experience. The first time I ever saw a clean print, I was shocked at how much had been whittled away over the years. I also remember what a hoot that Saturday Night Live was with "Tim and Meat's One Stop Rocky Horror Shop."
I used to watch it saturday nights as a double feature with Blues brothers. We did this for years and there is a cinema in Munich Germany still doing it Friday and Saturday at midnight since it all started , meani g for more then 45 years now. And its never empty.
Rocky Horror was a huge success as a play before it was a film. I got to see it in the Roxy ( Hollywood ) in 1974. Tim Curry and Meat were both in it. I was 14. It was FAR FAR better than the film.
@Emily Vernon the voices in that cast and the band…. Everything was perfect. Jamie Donnelly ( Grease ) Tim Curry, Meat Loaf ( what can I say ) Kim Milford as Rocky. He spoke lines that were cut from the film because Ricky didn’t speak English. I also saw Kim do the same part in the 10 yr anniversary play. I can’t recall the name of out Riff Raff at the moment… it’s late here but his voice put O’Brien to shame and he was soooo funny. Our Columbia was just wonderful though I saw an understudy, possibly Abigail. The sets were scant but perfect because it was simple. Graham Garvis as the Narrator!!! That was special. The band… the musicians…. 2 or 3 of them were in Toto and the entire band was in the Wrecking Crew ( finest musicians alive ). I’m sorry you didn’t get to see it live. Just hearing it is good but to have been there…to have Frank shake his head a foot away from me in Sweet Transvestite….getting purple glitter all over me was a major thing. It helped get me introduced to theater. A few years later I began acting and did it for 14 years. All stage work. RHPS is where I met my first wife. I’ve seen it over 100 times but the memories from the play are still magical.
@@davidperry1313 they used the main stage, a runway jutting into the audience 3/4 of the way and two “catwalk” stages. One up stage right and one side stage left, also elevated. There was a very small permanent set for the narrator down stage left, next to the catwalk. The “bedroom” had no props and was the side catwalk. The lab was against the back wall catwalk and held only a Coke chest and a few neon tubes. There was a scrim over the back wall for the “sex” scenes and they were done in silhouette. It was amazing. Tim Curry was standing next to me when he threw off his cape in Sweet Transvestite because the end of the runway was next to our elevated booth. My dad was Lou Adler’s optometrist and we had free VIP seats.
@@davidmiles533 Fantastic description! I love the Roxy, but spent most of my youth haunting at the Whiskey. I remember seeing the Rocky Marquee, but didn't put it together. I finally saw a midnight showing at some small theatre in Hollywood.
I played Colombia in the 80s when I was in high school and it was probably the best time of my life. We had a huge crew and we'd spend hours getting ready every week and go to the Howard Johnsons afterwards. So glad I got to do that in my life!
I have a, "Don't Dream It ; Be It" tattoo on my forearm. I live in the Canadian prairies, a city with 17,000 people. I was so excited the one time someone knew where the quote was from
Wish I were in the States this season. An AMC Theaters where I saw this film for the very first time in 1988 is no longer on Google map but I would like to believe the fans who were there are still out there somewhere every Friday night.
Rest in Peace Meatloaf💙
Yeah he got COVID JABL'OAF'FED a cliff! Oppps! Or rather, Dammit Transgenic! Now I should like, all rights if I may? YES PFIZER BEND ME HARDER MOTHER!
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In phineas and ferb, the dad is watching a horror movie and confused why there are no musical numbers, he is played by Richard O'brien, which makes it obvious that it is a reference.
This is amazing I had no idea!
Huh, that’s cool
He made the musical and played Riff-Raff
Barry Bostwick and Tim Curry have also appeared in Phineas and Ferb! Barry was the grandpa and Tim played a few characters.
@@marga8732 never heard of this, I'm going to need to check it out.
For me, Tim Curry is why Rocky Horror is a cult classic
And exactly the same reason Clue is too
What do you mean "for [you]?" Do you suppose you speak a different English language from the rest of us?
@@candice_green That means it's my opinion and others may disagree and have a different reason as to why Rocky Horror is a classic
@@Th3Ruhl 1. I agree, he's so great! Yet I love all the others, too, a perfect cast altogether.
2. You probably know that, but it was completely obvious what you meant. Let's just say, YOU are not the one who speaks a different English language 😉...
@@candice_green Are you dumb or are you stupid?
Tim Curry is amazing in this movie. They definitely cast the right people. The actors are amazing. Everyone should see this at least once. It's timeless fun.
He originated the role in the stage show before they made the film, so it's no wonder really 😁
Everyone perfectly suited for his/her role.
Agreed!!
I will never understand how some fans go from the original campy, ironic attitude of cult viewers ("it's so bad it's good") to actually thinking it' is a well, cast, well-made movie. I think you've really missed the entire point.
You can tell a lot about someone by where they know Tim Curry from
I think Rocky Horror is the very definition of a cult film, in and of itself. The cult film by which all other cult films are judged.
So true!
I've thrown rice, and cried when they sang "Don't dream it"
Agreed. While many films achieved "cult status" long before RHPS, it became the film for which the term "cult movie" was invented and yes, set the standard!
pretty sure this was the movie that started the term “cult film”
Absolutely. I've loved it since the first time I saw it in high school back in early 90s. I've been to the live shows dressed as Columbia and had some of the most fun ever there. Wish they did it more often where I live
theres truly nothing like the feeling you get when it gets to "I'm Going Home" and everyone sings along just a little louder and emotionally than they were before
I’m Going Home is objectively one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. It sucks you out of the movie, Tim Curry’s performance is emotional and outstanding. Like, yeah, we saw him acting through the whole movie - but the THEATRICS of I’m Going Home is what sells you on him as a performer.
It literally made me cry the first time I heard it
First time watching it yesterday I was stunned at that song, suddenly there's so much emotion and Tim Curry's incredible acting hit hard.
I think everyone male, female, child, grown up...doesn't matter...EVERYONE should see this in a theater with all the theatrics and all the food throwing...it's probably one of the best experiences I've had and there's nothing like it
When I was given a "virgin" lipstick mark in line at my first show I knew I was going to be in for a ride
my kids are gonna see this the second they can walk
Agree 100%!!!!
I always watched the movie in my living room, usually after a night of imbibing adult beverage. Didn't lose my RHPC virginity until about 24 but it was worth it.
Fun crazy times
I saw Rocky Horror for the first time at a midnight show in 1978 when I was 16 and a lot of people had newspapers, rice, squirt guns and some were dressed up. I can’t think of another movie that’s getting more popular the older it gets.
Me too! Small town in Jersey
@@housecat7219 Union County NJ for me.
@SGT MAYHEM Middlesex County here...would have been wild if we were at the same place🥰
Same thing still happens where I live! The entire audience has a prop kit! The only thing we don’t have are water guns, but the workers themselves are the ones who come running in and squirting the water everywhere for us!
im currently 16 and i might go watch it with my mum in January haha!
It's not just the US either. I live in New Zealand and the local theatre has a Rocky Horror Midnight screening every 3 months, with a dedicated shadow cast that is fully rehearsed and staged, and prop kits available for sale at the door. There is even a costume contest that I am proud to say I have won on 3 occasions and sometimes they even get local Drag artists to do an opening act.
Yes!!! Me and my mum went to a showing and then I took my best friend to another one! I love the props kits and the little games they do beforehand for the ‘virgins’ lmao.
well Richard O'Brien, who wrote the movie (and played riff raff) is a kiwi! there's a statue of him in Hamilton!
we have it in France too !! it's really cool to see that is has spread worldwide
Wish they put this on in my area more often. They only do it for like a week or so around Halloween. I've seen the movie an unfathomable amount of times, sadly only seen it live a handful of times. I want to go every Halloween but my husband is a freak and loathes this movie(I know why did I marry him 🤔) but he also refuses to actually watch it all the way thru with an open mind, and he won't g I with me and would have a bunch to say if I went alone. Every year I say I'm going and Halloween comes and goes and I didn't get to see it another year🙁☹️🥺😢😭
I saw it for the first time in Paris!
Fun fact: rice is no longer allowed in touring productions of Rocky Horror. Paper by all means, but if you take rice, the staff are instructed to take it from you.
Is toast still allowed??
Where I work we had to confiscate Kit Kats (Thrown at the line "I had to take a break!") yet the sweet foyer was selling them!!! Clearing up afterwards we would find discarded rubber gloves,newspapers,rice,water pistols,playing cards ("Cards for sorrow...cards for pain"),party hats,party blowers,confetti,tape measures,corkscrews,even mushed up apple pies ("Your apple pie doesn't taste too nice") and even a Titanic rubber ring.
why
No rice? What else would go with Tim Curry?
are you still allowed to bring curry?
Q: What makes The Rocky Horror Picture Show a cult classic?
A: The songs, IMO. Absolutely amazing.
But Rocky Horror is _so_ much more than great music.
I agree it’s great music, but also a cheesy story, amazing characters, fabulous costumes, sexy, funny and so unique.
Couldn't agree more! The songs, plus Tim Curry's acting is incredible!
@@JulieWallis1963 and Tim Curry ties it all together with a fabulous bow.
Since 1986, Rocky Horror has been a major friend to me. I still see it once a month. I have been over 200 times. As a teen, I was coming to terms with my sexuality. I had to do so in a time where gays were public enemy one, with the AIDS crisis. People were okay with deaths in my community. Some even with glee...Ronald Reagon (Ronald Reagan also lol).
I was at home with the RHPS crowd. Not all the fans are gays, and yet accepted me. I think that's why my dad took me when I was almost sixteen. To give me a place where I felt safe being me.
I had PTSD then, and serious depression. I tried to take my life. I spent much time in the hospital. I knew keeping secrets would kill me, so I started opening up. Swing Out Sister deserves some credit for my "Breakout", but so does Rocky Horror. By that time, I had the album of the full movie. I had been like a dozen times at that point. At that time, I know the movie by heart. But one only needs to take on line "Don't dream it, Be it". Richard got it from a sexy undie ad, but it is truth.
I'm over 50 now, and I have finally found peace. I owe myself credit for the years of work to overcome my stuff. But RHPS saved my life. That's not an exaggeration. When my mood is as "dark as pitch", RHPS causes me sing and dance to it.
Every day one can utter a line from the movie to express how they feel, sometimes sarcastically. We can quote as an affirmation.
I know it all sounds crazy, but Richard O'Brian's creation for self soothing has soothed the world. I love her for it.
Never happened.
No one had glee gays were dying.
Such a victim grift.
People were heartbroken.
Its was incredibly sad for everyone.
Stop demonizing straights.
@@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488 Stop being a villain. You don't get to rewrite my truth.
@@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488 Vox 12 1 of 2015. No one's drinking your Kool-Aid.
@FaeLand Thank You!
That reply was so long ago. They basically said gay vilification never was a thing, and I was lying. Or at least exaggerating.
I was outed in high school and constantly bullied. I could see rage in people's eyes at my mannerisms. I felt like I couldn't go anywhere. Nationally, well I talked about that. That was all very real. Perhaps they were not homophobic, but people in privilege often try to dictate the status quo. Maybe they assume everybody sees things the way they do. I don't know, it was very rude.
I'm going to be in Washington DC tomorrow night, so I'm going to see Rocky Horror. Check out their cast. Maybe I'll pick up a couple new lines.
Thank you again for your kind words. It really does mean a lot to me. You take care too.
Thank you for sharing your story! The comment section can be an ugly place sometimes, but personal stories like this are just beautiful. I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness and heard a lot of sermons against "fornication" and "desires of the flesh" and this was the first movie that introduced me to the idea that sex is not evil, its the dogmatic repression of one's sexuality that's harmful. It's such a silly and goofy movie, but it has such a sincere message that has resonated with so many fans across generations, races, nationalities and spectrums of gender and sexuality.
I'll always remember the halloween night I first seen this movie. My mum noticed it on TV late at night and told me I needed to see it. She and her best friend went to see it in their teens multiple times when it came out at the drive in theatre.
I ended up taking her and her best friend to see a showing at that exact drive in a few years ago.
It will be forever one of my favourite movies with my mum.
Me too! I grew up watching it since I was like 5 with my mum. At first it was purely bc I loved dancing it the time warp, but as I grew older and understood more I loved the more more for its whole self and the memories I made with my mum watching it. I then took her to a theatre showing of it earlier this year too. Good memories
At Museum Lichtspiele in Munich, Germany, The Rocky Horror Picture Show runs weekly since June 24th 1977. Sparklers aren't allowed anymore because they're a fire hazard.
I saw it first in Arizona at a theatre on the edge of the U of A, had no idea what I was getting into. Then while stationed on Ramstein AFB in Germany, a friend of mine and I were wandering around K-town (if you were stationed in the area, you'll get that) and saw it was playing at the local theater as their regular bill... 1985 or so... it was weird watching it with ZERO audience participation, everyone just sitting there politely watching the movie.
My grandmother originally got me into Rocky Horror by giving me a copy on VHS when I was about 3 or 4, then bought me a collectors edition VHS for my 6th birthday but got it early. Safe to say my parents weren't impressed when it quickly became my favourite movie 😅 Nana still has her Magenta costume, her and her friends used to go and see the midnight screening in George St in Sydney every week back in the day
Jennifer's Body didn't do well? That was such a hit in the Philippines. I remember that Panic! at the Disco song in circulation for months.
Not here in the States. It was advertised as a male audience movie rather than a story for women. It’s definitely become more popular in recent years
My sister took me to see a showing when i was 18. The cosplayer of Dr. Frankenfurter was spot on! Only later i realized why he looked familiar, he was my neighbor (a very quiet, serious, security guard)!!! Never forget that night.
Because never before or since have we seen such a dazzliing cocktail of music, comedy, adventure and sexual titillation.
I’m on a Rocky Horror cast that performs at an Alamo Drafthouse in Denton, Texas!
The theater has a huge “Denton, Home of Happiness” sign in the lobby.
If you’re in the area, come see Los Bastardos!
Denton, Denton, rah rah rah!
Just the fact that this movie promotes audience participation and makes us the fans part of it like we're co stars and accepts all of us no matter of our races creeds colors and sexualities and has props and yelling and allows this plus the music and acting makes it a necessary and much needed cult movie
This gay ass show saved my life. I'll never forget being in the shadow cast for the first time. These songs sound like freedom to me. Watching Frank float in that pool singing "don't dream it, be it" finally gave me the courage to decide to cut my hair and embrace myself fully. I've been laughed at before for the depth of the feeling I have towards Rocky Horror Picture Show but I don't care, it made me feel seen
Honestly yea it's so beautiful for that I think
There was a theater in San Diego, that played the movie every Sunday night at midnight. The first couple of times I went to watch the movie. From then on I brought my water dun, rice, and the other things, and watched the people in costume, act out the movie. This is my favorite movie.
I knew about the 'Time Warp' song since I was a toddler as it was included in a Halloween song mixtape but it wasn't until I was 18 and on a sailing trip on the Isle of Wight with my LGBT+ Youth Group when I first watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show and it just blew my mind. When I got home I bought the DVD and watched the film so many times I've lost track. For ages I wanted to see the live show but it always wasn't playing near me even when I went to university it somehow was playing near my hometown and vice versa. However 2 years ago I coincidencetly managed to see the show live in my uni town, after my friend posted a link on FB of an article in the city paper saying that evangelist Christians were protesting the show playing in the theatre for fears it would "corrupt the youths' souls" naturally I bought a ticket for the following night reused and bought a few items to create a Frank n Furter costume and the next night I put on my costume/ make up a took a taxi to the theatre. Outside the protesters were still there hurling abuse and threats to the theatre goers dressed up to see the show, I got out the taxi and was walking up the steps to the doors an a protester a guy about early 30s yelled to me " You're going to burn in hell!!" I laughed and replied cheerfully "At least I will look fabulous anyways" and just walked in. The play was amazing, the fellow fans were great and asked if I could be in pictures with them as I was the only one dressed as Frank and the cast afterwards were so lovely and sweet to us group of fans who went to the stage door and they chatted with us, took photographs with us and they all signed their signatures in my tour programme. Simply put The Rocky Horror Picture Show is just brilliant and changed my life completely.
Ugh. I'm from KC, and the Westboro Baptist Church chuds have easily crashed 75% of my collective concert- going experience (up to thirty-ish by my 21st birthday) a few family-oriented events after my husband and I settled down and started our family (The Harlem Globetrotters, Disney on Ice, etc.) and even some high school/college graduations, including my own. WAY before the cracks really started to show in the early 2010's (coinciding with the patriarch Fred Phelps' decline) they had already long since succumbed to the law of diminishing returns by their own hand. Because they oversaturated everything in the area for so long, 99.999% of the time the only reaction they could get from natives at that point was a snicker and/or an eye roll. (If they got one at all.) But I never saw them at our theater for RHPS!
You are fucking incredible for having the confidence to do that
This movie has such a special place in my heart. My high school theatre troupe did the Time Warp as warm up before each show. I didn't know the dance was from a movie until college when I saw the movie. My dorm did an annual screening with full casting and that was when I experience a theater screening for the fist time. We all went as a cast so we knew what the experience was like. It's campy, sincere, and I wouldn't change a thing about it. Thank you to everyone who helped this film get made, you've given us so very much.
I have made it a "tradition" for myself to watch Rocky Horror at least once every October in theaters. Its always so fun and one of the best things you can do for Halloween. I would also recommend bringing friends that haven't experienced it (especially exchange students) Everyone ends up having so much fun.
I just saw my first Rocky horror live show yesterday with my partner- I had never seen the movie before at all, so that being my first time seeing it was definitely a fun experience- it was so nice seeing all the people dressed up and excited for the show. They gave as all these little goodie bags full of props, like the rice, party hats, noise makers etc- it was very fun!
Funnily enough, my first introduction to Rocky Horror was a cassette of the soundtrack that my parents owned. I was too young to see the film, but I would often take my parents music as a little kid and listen to it myself, and I was always very intrigued by the soundtrack of Rocky Horror. It was the only musical soundtrack we owned, so I would hear the talking during songs and wonder ‘what’s happening here’. When I first saw the film as a teenager I was blown away. I had an image in my mind of what it was like, based purely on the songs, and was nervous that it would disappoint me. Because I was dying of anticip….. ation! Thankfully it was everything I hoped it would be and more, it’s still one of my favourites to this day. Just thought I’d share this random little story of how I found myself a part of the cult following from quite a young age!
I am 43 and was introduced to this at 16, around the same time the adventures of precilla queen of the desert came out and both have stay close to my heart ever since
such an underrated video & channel what the heck??? subscribed!
Thank you so much!!! 💕
First time I ever saw this movie, my best friend & I in high school rented it. We watched and after it ended, we looked at each other and said "What the hell was that?!" and just laughed. It was so bizarre and made zero sense. But then I watched it again... and again.... and again... and it made more sense with each viewing. And finally I got to go to a screening with a shadowcast performing and it was one of the best things ever. It was just a big party.
i’m currently in a production of rocky horror in denton tx it’s always so funny to me when i think about it
3:11
Wonderful cover, had no idea Bob Dylan was a fan of RHPS
That’s what I was thinking lol
I don’t live in the US so it’s much more difficult to see these kind of things here, but I went to see the show live in a theater and still people dressed up and shouted back at particular times and threw things to the stage. I loved it, it was so fun, I felt part of something special.
This is extremely well made
yup
For me , what makes me Love Rocky horror is the sci fi elemnts. i love the refrences to old B movies and nods to Frankenstien and King Kong. I am a delf proclaimed movie buff so this movie and soundtrack is the perfect way to express myself.
I had seen that a theater nearby was showing rocky horror on Halloween night, so me and a friend got tickets. What we saw was... Not what we expected at all. This video explains so much about it though, I had no idea about the shadow performances and community built a around such a great movie. Very interesting and informative video!
I first went when I was 16 and it was monumental moment as 2 years later when it returned I’d see a friends post about auditions and thought I’d stop by just to give it a chance. Turns out I was the last part they needed and was to play Rocky. I hit the gym, Got some gold undies, and put on my old gold wrestling shoes. It was one of the most fun nights of my life performing with faces I hardly knew but grew so comfortable with. The director told me he did shows monthly a few hours north of where I lived, and so I began regularly driving 2 hours north once a month to go shadow cast at a small theater that could barely hold 50 people. Sometimes it was packed, sometimes there was 5 people. Every time it was a blast, sadly I stopped going when I moved away for a few years. As soon as I got back in town though, my old director told me there was always a spot and that I’m always welcome home. Such a loving community with amazing people.
“Who is this cult following?”
It’s me, I’m the following.
My dad showed me the movie when I was 16 right before taking me to a showing at our local theater. That was 10 years ago and I have gone to showings every year since. I've cosplayed as nearly every character including multiple iterations of Frank, I've entered costume contests, unofficially shadow casted as Janet, and I've been the only one yelling callback lines at a show before. RHPS is so special to me especially since it is something that my dad introduced me to. My little sister is 16 now and I am hoping to introduce her to it as well. I also just finished getting a huge RHPS tribute tattoo this year (it took around 6 months to finish). I am very happy to bring the love of this film and continue its cult following into the next generations!
I'm watching this now, when I've been officially casted to play Eddie in the production of Rocky my university is doing. It's amazing to me how much this show has touched people's lives -- I know it's certainly touched mine in creating a space where I don't have to be afraid to be myself -- and I'm thrilled to be a part of continuing this tradition :)
Just watched it for the first time last night and it really hit me and now it's definitely up in my top favorite musicals. While it didn't introduce me to my sexuality, I noticed that it made me feel more confident in being bi sexual. Count me in on the midnight showings when covids done lol!
Another thing Rocky Horror may or may not do (it does) is give people who are ordinary (Brad and Jane) and allow them a couple hours of freedom with people who do not judge you to be the version of yourself you cannot always be or are afraid to be. It gives them to courage to break free, even if just a little and just a little while.
I grew up watching it with my mum and her telling me how she went to a live showing when she was younger, and then earlier this year me and my mum went to a late night picture show of it for the first time together and I then took my bestie another night.
It’s truly fun to interact and be part of such a night. We you can dress however and you fit right into it all.
When i moved to Europe, one of the first 'sites' I saw on the way to my hostelry was a huge marquee for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I was so happy, and that German group was even more fun to experience the movie than we Americans :v
another thing is when you go to see rocky in a cinema or theatre for the first time, you don't know what to yell at the right times, it feels like everyone got a script you weren't filled in on, so it only makes you wanna go back now you know what to say so you can feel like a part of it again and again.
in my city the showings are done in october as a halloween tradition and we have costume contests for each of the characters and its so much fun
While I've only seen the movie at home by myself numerous times, I never had the chance to see it with a live audience until the summer of 2019 at GalaxyCon Raleigh as I was visiting North Carolina from California for both the con and for family- as in, it was hosted in the convention center's ballroom on the third floor and the crowd was huge. One of the biggest highlights that night was for "Don't Dream It, Be It" as the Frank-N-Furter shadow performer had a crowd of volunteers (us audience members) stand and act as his "pool". And yes, I was one of the volunteers that was in the crowd. It was great.
Also I ended up looking like a hot mess by the end- lipstick running down my forehead, my hair covered in confetti and rice and at least one toilet paper wrapped around my neck like a scarf. Worth it!
I got caught up in the fun the first time I watched it, and was instantly a fan. Thanks for bringing back good memories and the cool trivia.
I just love that it challenges reality... art is anything that makes you think, "ya know, the world is not like I thought it was"... and this def did that for me.... love it.
Just an FYI: Richard O'Brien is a gender-diverse person, not a man. They've said this many times in interviews at this stage.
Thats what I was thinking! Wish more people would respect their identity :/
In 8th grade, we were about 15-16 years old, our teacher took us to the theatre to watch TRHPS. He told us to take rice, water guns and all that stuff with us. We didn't know what to expect. It soundend strange. But in the end it was a lot of fun.
Awesome video, i loved the editing and you did a nice job explaining cult classics 🤘
Thank you for watching!
Shock Treatment was a joy to watch, as well. Wish it had the same following as RHPS does now.
Denton forever!
Shock Treatment was SO ahead of it’s time and is even more relevant today than it was when it came out. It is a brilliant satire of American culture and where we were heading and it has all come true and then some if you think about it. Reality TV, social media, politics. It’s almost scary if you go back and watch it now.
I just watched ST again last week... it had probably been 10 years... just bought the soundtrack on iTunes (my cassette tape was long gone).
The sun never sets for those who ride into it.
I went to a midnight screening with my family my mom has always been a huge fan. And even being a generally shy person I had a lot of fun singing and dancing.
my first experince with RHPS was a midnight sing along screening and wow, the energy was palpable and it was honestly one of my most memorable cinema experiences
I feel like this movie isn't just a cult film it is THE cult film. It's pretty much a must see if you enjoy "weird" or "bad" movies.
There's actually a sequel to the film called Shock Treatment. Not many of the original cast from the film appear but a lot of the cast from the stage musical appear such as the cop who played Brad, Ralph Hapschatt who played as Brad's friend from the beginning of the musical, and a few others. I actually like it more than Rocky Horror Picture Show
I'd like to see how this might've developed as a cult/fan cinema experience...how would folks dress, which lines would they respond to, what kind of props would they bring? also hoped this would've been a good stage-show but don't know if it ever happened. the big difference with the play to screen translation of Rocky was that a great many rougher patches could be worked out before it got the bigger budget screen treatment, whereas Shock Treatment didn't get to be a stage play first. and given the story's reliance on tv screens it would've been a harder and more expensive thing to do on stage back in the early 80's. actually quite a lot of the Rocky cast and crew returned for Shock Treatment but most obviously absent were the original Brad and Janet and of course no Frankenfurter. But Richard O'Brien, little Nell, Patricia Quinn, Charles Grey were back as different characters, and joining them, Barry Humphreys and Ruby Wax. i think Shock treatment is a great fun film with a sensational soundtrack but it seems much maligned for NOT being TRHPS rather than looked at on its own merits.
I love how you portrayed this awesome job
The first time I saw this movie, when it showed up somehow, somewhere, I freaked out. I only understood about half of what I saw. So I watched it again. And again. By then I understood about 98 percent of it. I took a date to watch it. She didn't understand it either. But we had a great time. I also took her to where they acted it out, a first for both of us. People throwing rice, using props, quoting lines out loud, acting the movie out in front of the screen isn't a normal movie crowd and usually taboo.
Let me just sum up my opinion of this movie. It's fantastic. Everyone should see this movie. Not for political, social agenda reasons. Just because you'll have a night you'll never forget. Isn't that the best you can expect from entertainment?
I attended the 15th Anniversary show at Fox Studios. It was a *trip.*
Susan Sarandon didn't show, but everybody else did. Bostwick threw some sass at the crowd, and Curry quipped about how he was the only one there *not* dressed like him. :D
Once a semester, my college does a midnight screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show and has a whole shadow cast who dresses up as the characters and performs. I love going
I first saw this film in 1986 not long after I left school. I instantly fell in love with it, with the songs, the characters...... a love afair that continues to this day!
I've watched this movie multiple times since I was in middle school but only went to my first screening this past Halloween. Probably some of the most fun I've ever had, highly recommend going 👄
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You’re so sweet, thank you!
SERIOUSLY!
This is an amazing video! Thanks for posting to Reddit!
My mom grew up going to the screenings in the 70s and in the last few years there have been live shows in my city and it has become a tradition to see it every Halloween. Sometimes you get professional stage actors, most of the time it is amateurs who can't sing but it is always a ton of fun!
I remember when my kid was 15 and iPods were new and she asked to search for music to download from my desktop computer and first thing she snagged was the soundtrack from rocky horror picture show. The pride that swelled within me is memorable. I was a regular every Saturday night in 1978 and 79
I JUST watched this movie (which was a journey in and of itself as I can't pay for a legal viewing) because I wanted to see what the fuss was about and why it's so heavily referenced in a lot of other media, and boy, I loved it. I knew it was gonna be a treat but I really wasn't expecting it to resonate so well with me. Really hoping one day I get to see it in a show with other fans because the experience just sounds so amazing.
Not all cult-classic films have followings and rituals like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Some are just initially obscure films that gained some dedicated but solitary video viewers over the years.
I saw a midnight screening on Halloween and I’ll never forget it
Jermain Clements would make a good Rocky..I thought this after hearing him sing in Moana.
The original Richard O’Brien tape sounds like it could easily be early Bowie
One of thee most iconic movies I've ever had the pleasure to watch!! I will always be a follower!! ❤
You forgot toast. We always carried toast with us, too (which is self-explanatory if you've ever seen the movie)).
Went to my first experience a few weeks ago. Dressed to the nine. And threw all the things and said all things. It was glorious and glamorous and so much fun! It was the first one in my city ever and hopefully means it won't be the last! :) I did feel absolutely horrible for the theater workers who had to clean up so we tipped what we could 😊
I love this movie man. Went to my first live show down at Egyptian Theater for the first time last month and I’m definitely gonna do it again next year. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a shit ton of fun and a great watch. I remember throwing a sponge when Columbia snapped at Frank calling him a sponge.
I started in a Rocky horror cast years ago & today I’m 13 years still active. This video does the movie justice everything is very well said 💋
I saw Rocky Horror 367 times back in the day. Honestly, I feel too old to go today, because I don’t want to be the old lady that we used to comment about. It shows every Saturday night here, and everywhere I’ve been in the U.S.
I’m almost 60. My husband and I always go when Rocky Horror is in our local city.
We met thanks to to Rocky Horror.
We will never stop going.
Only last weekend we were at the theatre. I was Trixie the usherette and my husband was Dr Scott, complete with high heels and stockings. I was also there on the previous Monday with my editor, I was Colombier on the Monday.
I don’t even know how many times I’ve seen this.
Edited to add: go next time it’s in your hometown. If you’re a real Rocky fan, you’ll know nobody judges the others, fans or virgins.
@@JulieWallis1963 Nice! Where are you that it plays so often? I played Frank in a cast for 4 years (1987 to 1991) in Newport Beach, CA. It was my life for so long... I'm 53 and also went... they finally showed it here in Seattle on Halloween 2019. So glad I went.
The theater in my town does it every valentines day weekend(on whatever weekend is closer t the day.) I went to see it on a first date. Previous to that I had never gone in person, but I had such a fun time with the props. It rained on it's own, but they gave us newspapers to cover ourselves lol.
it really is a great production, no matter how you watch it. and i encourage anyone to watch it if they get the chance.
This video is so underrated! I thought it said 4 million views💔
You are so sweet 😭 thank you! Maybe one day 🤞🏻
Took my boyfriend with me to a showing and he was amazed by how many people were dressed up and how much energy was in the theater with people throwing props or yelling at the screen
I saw it in a theater once. Once. I didn't get the appeal. That's fine, just because it didn't click for me doesn't mean other people aren't permitted to click.
I saw it in the mid 80's as a teenager. I used to like it and watched it many times. Now I'm in my 50's, and I'm wondering why.
my local shadowcast has like, $2 prop kits they sell to the lines at their monthly showings, along with buttons and other merch. my first time going made me fall in love with the movie and the fanbase and i even got initiated as a certified slut
I love it. I have been to a few Rocky Horror screenings in Cape Town. EVERY ONE is dressed. Everyone knows their lines. Its Astounding!
I think audience participation is evolving. My partner an I went to see the stage show AGAIN and people in the audience were shouting things I'd never heard previously.
I noticed the same thing
Richard O'Brien wrote the _Rocky Horror Show_ . Picture was later added to the movie. I am also slightly disappointed that you missed that in "Fame" the theatre students go to a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening.
my friend took me once several years ago, they put the lipstick V on my cheek and it was so funny and vibrant watching all the responses and crazy stuff people threw. the passion in the fans is so incredible.
I remember how crummy the print was in the DC theaters that we went to when I was in college. It was crackly and had bumps and breaks which became part of the experience. The first time I ever saw a clean print, I was shocked at how much had been whittled away over the years. I also remember what a hoot that Saturday Night Live was with "Tim and Meat's One Stop Rocky Horror Shop."
40 something years on and it is still on its first release. That is a record that will be hard to beat.
I’m going to one tomorrow night! A drive in 🤍 I’m so excited!!
A BRILLIANT, CREATIVE, Perfectly Musical creation together with PERFECT ACTORS! Thank you!
Way Way Way ahead of it's time. Saw it when it Premiered.
I used to watch it saturday nights as a double feature with Blues brothers. We did this for years and there is a cinema in Munich Germany still doing it Friday and Saturday at midnight since it all started , meani g for more then 45 years now. And its never empty.
Rocky Horror was a huge success as a play before it was a film. I got to see it in the Roxy ( Hollywood ) in 1974. Tim Curry and Meat were both in it. I was 14. It was FAR FAR better than the film.
@Emily Vernon the voices in that cast and the band…. Everything was perfect. Jamie Donnelly ( Grease ) Tim Curry, Meat Loaf ( what can I say ) Kim Milford as Rocky. He spoke lines that were cut from the film because Ricky didn’t speak English. I also saw Kim do the same part in the 10 yr anniversary play. I can’t recall the name of out Riff Raff at the moment… it’s late here but his voice put O’Brien to shame and he was soooo funny. Our Columbia was just wonderful though I saw an understudy, possibly Abigail. The sets were scant but perfect because it was simple. Graham Garvis as the Narrator!!! That was special. The band… the musicians…. 2 or 3 of them were in Toto and the entire band was in the Wrecking Crew ( finest musicians alive ).
I’m sorry you didn’t get to see it live. Just hearing it is good but to have been there…to have Frank shake his head a foot away from me in Sweet Transvestite….getting purple glitter all over me was a major thing. It helped get me introduced to theater. A few years later I began acting and did it for 14 years. All stage work. RHPS is where I met my first wife. I’ve seen it over 100 times but the memories from the play are still magical.
SO Jealous!!! was there a live rock band? How did they pull off the sets?
@@davidperry1313 they used the main stage, a runway jutting into the audience 3/4 of the way and two “catwalk” stages. One up stage right and one side stage left, also elevated. There was a very small permanent set for the narrator down stage left, next to the catwalk. The “bedroom” had no props and was the side catwalk. The lab was against the back wall catwalk and held only a Coke chest and a few neon tubes. There was a scrim over the back wall for the “sex” scenes and they were done in silhouette. It was amazing. Tim Curry was standing next to me when he threw off his cape in Sweet Transvestite because the end of the runway was next to our elevated booth. My dad was Lou Adler’s optometrist and we had free VIP seats.
@@davidmiles533 Fantastic description! I love the Roxy, but spent most of my youth haunting at the Whiskey. I remember seeing the Rocky Marquee, but didn't put it together. I finally saw a midnight showing at some small theatre in Hollywood.
@@davidperry1313 probably the Tiffany on Sunset in West Hollywood? That’s where I performed it on Saturday nights.
Thank you for this video!!!
I saw it as a high school freshman in 1978... I've never experienced anything quite like it since. The theater was alive.
I played Colombia in the 80s when I was in high school and it was probably the best time of my life. We had a huge crew and we'd spend hours getting ready every week and go to the Howard Johnsons afterwards. So glad I got to do that in my life!
I have a, "Don't Dream It ; Be It" tattoo on my forearm. I live in the Canadian prairies, a city with 17,000 people. I was so excited the one time someone knew where the quote was from
Wish I were in the States this season. An AMC Theaters where I saw this film for the very first time in 1988 is no longer on Google map but I would like to believe the fans who were there are still out there somewhere every Friday night.