🎃Halloween Special: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Added 2023-10-31 20:55:01 +0000 UTCVoted by patrons! Having only seen the movie once in our teens, The Wife and I revisit the flawlessly absurd queer classic for the first time in twenty/thirty years to give Rocky Horror the appreciation it will always, always deserve.
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lixie
2025-08-06 18:06:25 +0000 UTCThat was both enjoyable and fascinating because I can't count the number of times I've seen the movie or the live show - not the singalong version - but the original live musical. It's a show that has been in production here in Australia almost constantly, like every few years. We're in the middle of the 50th anniversary tour now. I know that's partly because it's an Aussie cultural icon as Jim Sharman is Australian and Richard O'Brien grew up in New Zealand. But so many famous people have been in the cast and I remember all sorts of legends still exist from the time when Russell Crowe played Eddie/Dr Scott (they're the same actor in the stage show). But it's one of those shows that has had a cast of thousands over the years - singers, comedians, actors, tv personalities, even the New Zealand Prime Minister. I'm not sure you'd know (m)any of them but the current tour is led by Jason Donovan.
Inala
2023-11-06 22:57:15 +0000 UTCI wore out soundtrack after soundtrack as I worshiped this movie and Tim Curry. I'm talking cassette tapes! My teenage montage would include walking from work listening to this music, falling in love with unobtainable gay men, writing fanfiction before I even knew that it existed, and falling asleep to this music while visions of drag queens danced in my head. I have always remembered how the book documentation of the movie described the show's success as being "...a show that had to find its own audience..." In other words, it wasn't an overnight success. Far from it. But interest grew and it became phenomenal. This is how I comforted myself with my own masterpiece brewing in my heart. When Tim Curry says, "Don't dream it, be it," I took that shit to heart and wrote my books. <3
Omni
2023-11-04 01:38:17 +0000 UTCThank you, thank you, thank you!
Omni
2023-11-04 00:34:23 +0000 UTCit's been so long since the first time i saw this movie (12 years old, my dad had a recording of the movie with the audience participation from a midnight screening recorded as audio along with it) that it was really a treat to see it again with new eyes with y'all, made me appreciate the music and the gags and references all the more
TheSporkIdentity
2023-11-02 11:56:52 +0000 UTCThis was actually my first ever time watching it and now I just want to put together a Frank-N-Furter cosplay so bad ;-; Also another great Tim Curry movie to add to my favorites alongside Clue (which I would love to watch you react to as well lol)
Tay
2023-11-01 21:53:48 +0000 UTCIt’s fun to watch this (again) with you. Watching it made me think about how when this was made the Hays Code had just ended in 1968. In case you need a refresher, under the Hays Code, queerness in film could only be expressed by villain characters (this why so many Disney villains are queer coded) and eventually any queer coded characters became synonymous with villainy/evil. I love that much of the “horror” of RHPS is the queerness.
Emily Brown
2023-11-01 13:59:50 +0000 UTCLeeet's dooo the tiiiime waaaarp agaaaaain!
JessiML
2023-11-01 02:07:09 +0000 UTCYay! This movie meant so much to me as a teen.
threerings
2023-10-31 22:08:35 +0000 UTCwoohoo, yes! Thanks for this!
Joe Lancaster
2023-10-31 20:59:27 +0000 UTC
