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A meme went around ages ago asking you to name something you learned from the movies. My answer was if Tim Curry is hosting a party in the rain, expect everything to go sideways.😂
Back in 1977, boyfriend and I were out on a warm sunny afternoon and decided to take in a film. The local movie theater didn't have much really to offer, but boyfriend decided he really wanted to see this cheesy-looking monster movie we'd never heard of showing on the marquee: "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". We argued a little (I wasn't into it), but he won and we went in. This was the days before large seating theaters were chopped up into multiplexes, so it was a huge auditorium. In spite of that, we were only 1 of 5 couples that were there for the showing. Well, it was the middle of the afternoon on a Wednesday or Thursday in a suburban neighborhood, so 5 couples is actually pretty good. The Theater goes dim, the giant lips shows up singing the opening song... WTF? I look at boyfriend, he looks at me, and we realize we hit paradise!!! The whole rest of the film we are rocking in our seats and singing along as best we can! During the Time Warp dance, 2 of the couples just get up and hurry out, wide-eyed. Meanwhile me and boyfriend are just having a great time! When the film ends, we stay seated, to glean everything we can from the credits and to listen to the music to the very end. The last 2 couples walk out slowly, shocked faces, looking like 'what the hell was THAT!' We leave, go straight to a record store, and buy the soundtrack, which we nearly wear out with constant play. About a year later, passing through Georgetown in Washington, DC with a new boyfriend, I see the little art film theater has a late showing of "Rocky Horror", so talk him into going. We have dinner, do some windowshopping, then go to get in line for the showing. And THAT is when I first experience the Audience Participation in a tiny theater, a phenomenon I had never known existed. People in line were in costume as the film characters. The film starts and there's callbacks, rice thrown, water-spritzing, newspaper on heads, hotdogs thrown, toilet paper rolls thrown, cigarette lighters lit. During the Time Warp, there was a line across the lip of the stage joining in and encouraging people to dance in the aisles. It couldn't have been more than a hundred people, but it was a packed house and INTENSE! And crazy fun! So these are my introductions to this film, as a phase 1 and a phase 2.
Thanks so much for sharing your history with The Rocky Horror Picture Show! Such a vivid recollection which makes us even more hyped to experience it ourselves for the first time tomorrow night!!!
I used to go see Rocky Horror every weekend or two at what was probably that same theater in Georgetown back around 1989/1990. The audience participation was what made the movie so great that my friends and I wanted to go back and see it again and again. I probably went at least 2 or 3 dozen times before I got a different job and couldn't go on the weekends.
I was in a Rocky Horror shadow cast for quite a few years and “retired” 6 or 7 years ago. I’ve tried to watch it a couple of times since then, but without the audience experience it feels like it’s lacking something, at least for me. I hope you had fun at your first RHPC live experience!
I discovered Rocky Horror in high school! A friend of mine played Janet, and I knew her for a little while, beautiful, black eyes and blonde hair, when I was 14 I think and went on HALLOWEEN for Christs sake for the first time!, believe me, because it WAS this holiday night, I saw people dressed up that I have NEVER seen before, a little ahead in line was a man in pantyhose and a g string, all kinds of men and women drastically dressed up for a great Halloween Event! And it was. Crammed inside, people played their roles in front and the sides of the theater. I could FEEL Frankenfurters energy as he swept down the middle of the aisle like nobody's business! Put a gay man in a Frankenfurter costume on Halloween and swing him down the aisle to the front and you will see someone who MEANS business! The rice, dancing, everything was there, so I kept going back on the weekends to continue to see it. They always used the very back theater at midnight when it started. I could always go as long as I came back from the movie when it was over, I guess they didn't want me too exposed to the cast or out past two.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I'm Gen X 😘
My parents played this soundtrack so much that I learned my left from right by dancing to The Time Warp at the age of 4. Twisted '70s Parenting for the win.
My mother (RIP) was a product of a 1950s upbringing, conservative, modest, and rather naive in a lot of ways. I convinced her to watch this movie because "Mom, it's a musical," and she loved musicals. She also really liked Tim Curry from other films. I honestly wasn't sure how she would feel about Rocky Horror, and I'm happy I convinced her to see it. Rocky Horror totally shocked her, of course! She also enjoyed it so much that when they put on the live show in our town, she eagerly went with me to see it (a play with local actors who did a fantastic job).
I used to play Columbia at our local midnight showings back in the early 80s. My mom finally went so I was so happy to be able to yell, "My mother is a virgin!" at it as our custom was to announce who first time attendees were before the show started. The guy who played Frankie got a hoot from her because she was asking him how he got his costume together and he was proudly bragging on his girlfriend who had done his costuming and make-up. The cast decided I had the coolest mom. Miss her but love that one of my favorite memories was of her going with me just to see what the fuss was and she had a blast. I was 16 at the time and so grateful my parents let me have enough freedom to do that.
You are so lucky. Gorgeous dahling! I lost my movie virginity on Halloween night I think when I was 14. I had never seen the kind of people who were in line and couldn't believe the performance either!!😍 My friend who got me there played Janet, and her boyfriend played Rocky. 1987!
As someone who first experienced RHPS in the 80s, thank you for your work. I was WAY too introverted to ever even consider performing but I enjoyed going many many times in the 80s and early 90s.
Riff Raff wrote the whole thing and the music and wrote the original stage performance. And I don’t think Tim curry started in it but he was a part of the original stage show as well
The stage performance was in London, so it had british cast. But when they made the movie they needed Americans to play Brad and Janet, but they could keep the London actors as they were supposed to be aliens anyway.
My dad took me and my sister to a midnight showing in 85 when I was 11. I was definitely a bit too young. My eyes were opened forever. 😳❤😳❤ Tim’s performance is everything.
I really forgot how unapologetically wild this movie is. And I think more young people especially need to see this. This is what we're fighting for, the freedom to just be ourselves. Fight the good fight. Celebrate LIFE. Don't dream it, BE IT.
Not really, Frankfurter is a Despot who kidnapped, murdered and sexually assaulted people. More akin to a cult leader. You sure that is who you want as an icon?
A little fact I love spreading: Patricia Quinn (Majenta) recently gave an interview for Doctor Who The Collection in her mansion, next to a poster of - as well as a big cushion with a print of - her own lips (from the intro). And I just think that's a level of extra and eccentric we should all strive to be.
Strange, it was a video about Dr Who that taught me the difference between a fact and a factoid. Humanoids are like humans but not; factoids are the same, like facts but not. A factoid is blatantly not true, but no-one seems to know that these days, including me!
@@SpectrumAnalysis I didn't believe you at first. "an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact." Fitting that it's so misused now.
I watched it as a teenager with my parents in the 90s and haven't seen it in years. Back then my mum would dress my friends and I up for live Rocky shows, we had a wonderful time! My kids are a little too young still but I can't wait to show them!
I had the pleasure of meeting Barry Bostwick at Galaxycon in RVA a few weeks ago. Nicest guy you could ever meet. He signed the autograph to me Damnit, Joe, I love you.
Back in 2000 there was a 25 year anniversary special on TV. Anthony Stewart Head (Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) played Frank N. Furter on stage in the early 1990s, and he performed "Wise Up Janet Weiss" in full makeup and costume for the special.
You wondered about the theater cues... every freakin' thing was a cue from beginning to end. I saw the movie in the theater hundreds of times starting in 1976 (I was 15). When I was 17, I ran into my mom there. Apparently, it was not her first time, either. (My hilarious mom!) It wasn't until it was on TV many, many years later in 1993 that I actually _heard_ the movie for the first time. I was shocked at all I'd missed, but had hollered/danced to for all those years. Watching it without an audience was disconcerting so I yelled everything and it took every ounce of restraint not to throw rice, toss hot dogs, use a squirt gun, light the lighter... but I did dance. Thank you for this! Fantastic memories. You both were fantastic!
At the beginning of the pandemic, 7 housemates from RI (all of them are part of a Rocky Horror group), decided to do a performance as a fundraiser. They acted out the entire movie and it was filmed in one long shot. They all took turns acting as the narrator and had to occasionally use one of their cats as a stand-in. It was amazing! Random fact! Riff Raff’s actor, Richard O’Brien, was the dad in Phineas and Ferb. In one episode, his character criticized a horror movie, wondering where all the rock and roll musical numbers were.
I attended many a RH midnight showing at the Avon in Providence. RI always possessed a weirdness and creative streak due to so many artists and musicians in the mix of the population. Those days were so much fun, with Lupo's The Livingroom, The Met Cafe, The Leroy, Vet's Memorial, etc.
I found the West End live show to be useful to learn callbacks. It was broadcast on the BBC about 7 or 8 years ago and is on RUclips. It's awesome to see the stage actors, interacting with the crowd, and the Narrator was played by several people, including Stephen Fry and Anthony Head.
Richard O'Brien (Riff Raff) is the writer and creator of the musical the movie is based on. And since this movies release 48 years ago, he has gotten to live off the residuals each showing. Because it is the longest running film of all time, playing all over the planet since it's original release.
He now lives in katikati in new zealand . . In Hamilton where Richard Obrian wrote The Rocky Horror Show . . There is a statue to him on the spot where he was a hairdresser and came up wirh the idea . . . He also used to live in the street i now live in . . . .
@@LatetotheParty Noisemakers, hotdogs and toilet Paper. Some of the times you use the props are self evident. The toilet paper is thrown around when Jack yells, "Great Scott."
19:02 "it's tim curry! everyone gets a free pass with tim curry!" no literally. if my partner invented time travel just to go back in time and get with tim curry, i'd only be upset that *I* wasn't the one to do it
I've attended many many many interactive screenings of this all over the world, from Canada to Japan and New Zealand and Australia and love it every time! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁👍
I saw this in the movie theater in 1977, I was in college. My husband also made a documentary called “A Regular Frankie Fan” so needless to say, RHPS holds a special place in my heart ❤️😁
The first time I watched this I got such a shock at Riff Raff! Richard O'Brien was such a part of my childhood from hosting the game show The Crystal Maze over here in the UK, which I loved and wanted to participate in. So the first time I saw this film I had a weird mix of feelings seeing this eccentric, but family-friendly host play the part of Riff Raff... and then to find out he created the show too?! 😮 I have watched the live show, but only last year for the first time and I loved it!!!!
Despite it being 30 years since being in a shadow cast, I find I still have to "complete" the movie dialogue with the callback lines. Thank you for the memories
Growing up, when I thought of Tim Curry, I thought of him in Muppets Trasure Island, Ferngully, or him in The Worst Witch. My husband would've thought of him in Home Alone 2. My parents, however... would think of RHPS. And the fact that he's even done Barbie movies. The man has RANGE.❤
@killinglonliness88 My dad's a preacher. One sick day in my Sr yr of high school, my dad asked if I had seen RHPS. I had not. I was 18, and he felt that I was old enough for it. He threw the DVD at me and left the room because he couldn't handle watching it with me. Lol
@@ShadowoftheShades Oh sorry, I wasn’t trying to sound judgmental (though I realize now it DEFINITELY came off that way…) I’m shocked that your dad was a preacher and willingly gave this to you to watch lol. Definitely one of the more open minded ones even if he couldn’t actually watch it with you haha. That’s epic though! I’m glad he showed it to you! I first saw it when camping (in a camper lol) with my mom when I was like 11, she had it on and I walked in like “Wtf is this!?” And she started it over and we watched together and had a great time lol.
@killinglonliness88 Not judgemental at all. I just have always felt that I was behind on things. My folks definitely kept me sheltered until I was deemed "age appropriate." My husband, on the other hand, watched '80s rated R movies from the age of 10. Everyone has different experiences, and Lord knows it's gonna be different for my girls. But I also love letting ppl know about how my pastor dad introduced me to RHPS. It was a moment of him admitting that I was grown up and introducing something he thought was a necessity to see...but could not stand the idea of watching something "mature" with me. MANY years later, he's showing me a movie where Julie Andrews was topless in a scene. *shrug* FUN! Lol.
@@ShadowoftheShades Hahaha ahhh yeah I can understand how he felt in that moment. I still feel awkward with intimate scenes in movies with my family. It’s fun to know how you were introduced to it though! Props to dad!
I've been to Burning Man a couple of times. And for all that goes on, I think perhaps my best time there was when one of the camps put up a big sheet as a screen and showed this at 2 in the morning. There were two lovely ladies as hosts either side of the screen and the whole audience was joining in with the audience participation. Fantastic. Go see it with a crowd.
Probably my favorite musical EVER!!!!!!! Nothing like it before or since...some of the best songs ever, an incredible set & vibe, it's a horror comedy musical, an all star cast including Meatloaf, so quotable...and the sexiest performance of all time by the one the only Tim Curry!!! "Dammit, RHPS, I LOVE YOOOOOUUUU!!!"
@@LatetotheParty The closest musical to it is probably Little Shop of Horrors. By the way, the European cut is the same at the US version you saw, except you get almost an entire extra song at the very end as Brad and Janet are escaping the house, they sing the song ‘Superheroes’. In the US version, we only hear the very end of the song as the house is lifting off. Also, Barry Bostwick did record one song cut from the movie and the soundtrack, ‘Once in a While’, and it’s a great song too! I’m sure it’s on RUclips. There is a musical sequel to this, songs just as great as these, but it’s hurt by the fact that Brad and Janet are played by different actors. It’s called Shock Treatment.
Fun fact - are you aware of who Hilary is from the HDTV show Love It or List It? She was Tim Curry's neighbor at the time and ended up playing the bride at the beginning of the film.
No one else could have pulled off this role better than Tim! His mannerisms, facial expressions, singing are all amazing, also he performed this part for years before the movie was made though so he had the part nailed obviously lol. Many have tried to play this role and failed horribly!😂😂😂 Tim is the absolute best ❤
I would have loved to see a version where Freddy Mercury played the role! Only person who might have given Tim Curry's amazing performance a run for its money.
We used to go every Friday Night if not working to see this movie. People dressed in Character...brought squirter guns for the raini g scene...rice for the wedding scene. During the Time Warp audience got up went down by the screen and danced to it.
Went to see the original cast performance a month after it opened in 73. It had transferred to a condemned cinema in the Kings Road, Chelsea by then; which was covered inside by scaffolding and sack cloth awaiting demolition. Great atmosphere. The actors playing Frank, Riff Raff, Magenta and Columbia in the movie were in the original stage show, and Dr Scott in the movie was the original Narrator. The only real props then were a tin tray for thunder, a torch for the light, the wheelchair, and the end of a garden fork painted silver as the weapon. The tin tray was accidentally dropped off stage early in the run, but then became part of the show. Apart from the 'f**k off!' there were no audience responses at that time. So lucky enough to have seen it in its original guise.
Thanks, Robert! Thanks, Vanessa! 🫦 My friend Paul dressed as 'Riff Raff' and attended over 250 screenings in Baton Rouge, back in the 80s. #LateToTheParty #JimSharman #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow1975
Good call watching it at home first. I saw it three times in the theatre at midnight showing in my teen years. I only figured out what the plot was after watching it relatively quietly at home. Seeing it with a group is a blast though. You guys should have a good time.
Funny note, at one point when Frank is singing in the lab with the lab coat on, he throws out his arms. In the 80's Whitney Houston video for How will I know, she throws her arms out just like Frank. I always laughed when I saw that video. I used announce dinner just like Magenta.
Tim Curry originated the role in play. Basically everybody except for Brad, Jannet and Rocky came from the live show. Even Mick Jagger wanted to play Dr's role in the movie but fortunately they decided to stick with Tim Curry.
Back in the pre-internet days, the theater antics related to this movie were a mysterious legend to the uninitiated (and I never did see a showing). The songs would get played on college radio. There was a big publicity deal when it came out on videotape in 1990. I have not seen it since.
One of my favorites ever 👄I used to go to the midnight showings in high school/college. I think it's good to watch the movie at home so you can really pay attention. I saw it in the theater first and it was kinda hard to follow along with people talking over it but it's fun once you know what's going on.
Going to Rocky Horror was a weekly event when I was in HS. Toast and squirt guns at the ready!! 💜🙌 & TP for the "Great Scott" moments. 🤣 Fun fact: Tim Curry had a few LPs in the 70's. He always had an amazing voice.
Funny af, musically stacked with absolute bangers, Actors Acting with a capital A and having both the best and the worst time, and a genuine depth of emotion makes this film the complete package. Fun reactions!
The show started out as a stage musical in the early 1970s, titled "The Rocky Horror Show"; when it was made into a movie a few years later, the word "Picture" was added to the title. Another fun fact: Those lips at the beginning were Patricia Quinn's, but the singing voice was Richard O'Brien's.
And she was upset because that was her only song in the stage play when she played the cinema usherette who originally sang that song as well as Magenta
And she was upset because that was her only song in the stage play when she played the cinema usherette who originally sang that song as well as Magenta
I was 19 or 20 the first time I went to a screening. That was like 1982. Akers Mill Theater in Smyrna, GA, just north of Atlanta. I became a regular for a while. Hung out with a little group of other regulars before and after the midnight show. We had a great cast a lot of weekends and it was a total blast. You'll hear the words "rite of passage" a lot surrounding this movie, and it's facts. This one and Tim Curry's other important movie, Times Square were life-changing for me.
Watch this movie every year since I was a kid, an ex was in a little cal production. The plays are allot of fun. Just love it ❤ I'm so glad y'all enjoyed it
I first saw this in high school, and every time I watch it, I appreciate it more. My fiancé watched it for the first time last year, and he loved it. I’m excited for you guys to go to a screening! And glad you finally watched the movie too!
Oh and I forgot to mention, back when I was an aspiring actor, I auditioned for a stage version of the show in LA. I was in way over my head and didn’t get a part, but it was an awesome experience.
I saw it in a movie theatre in New York City -- the original experience (though a year or so after it debuted). I loved it from the first note... or actually from way before that, as I encountered all the costumed audience members before the movie began. The props, the costumes, the shouting of random hysterical lines. It was something else! I've also directed the original stage version several times. I have never had a negative Rocky Horror experience. Ironically for something so wild and "subversive", it has always been light-hearted and just plain fun! Great reaction, thanks.
Love watching you guys react to this, but if you want the real RHPS experience then you really need to look up a shadow cast performance and see it done in all of its audience participation glory.
OMG, I'll not be able to watch this till later, but I can't wait. There's many films and TV shows that I love and know very will, but this is the one that I know every line and song. Hope you enjoy it.
Last month Barry Bostwick was a guest at a convention that was happening in my town. While I didn't get to go to the Saturday night RHPS screening he was there for, he had a booth set up during the convention I was able to go to and chat with him for a bit. He was a super cool guy to talk to, and we even talked about the effects of this movie tight-casting him a bit for similar roles afterwards. Though, he did appear in a Cold Case RHPS themed episode where he played the serial killer and he said that he really enjoyed filming that episode. I got a photo with him at the end of it so it was really cool to get to meet someone who plays an iconic character in an iconic movie.
Christopher Malcolm who played Rogue 2 in Empire Strikes Back who found Han and Luke in the snow also played first Brad in the London Rocky Horror stage show in 1973 , he was involved with the show till 2004, thanks Y’all
The Loft is my favorite theater in the state. Their lineups have always been awesome, and they carry the Art House Theatre torch well after the Valley Art threw it away years ago. Can't wait to become a member again (just moved back.)
You got me with that "So it's not just a clever name" 😆 any reference to wayne's world and I fall in love lol. Your reactions were so great to watch, really fun. I hope you go see the show live, if you haven't already.
We'll take any chance to quote Wayne's World. 😂 We ended up watching a shadow cast Rocky Horror watch along at our local theater the very weekend we posted this reaction! It was a blast!
@@LatetotheParty Oh wow awesome to hear from you, and yay!! Glad you got to see it in its full glory 😂❤️Best time I ever had with it was in college at a halloween showing of it in the 500 seat lecture auditorium, so many people dressed up in lingerie, and going full ham with the show, screaming it 🥳😂 crazy wild time. Thanks for helping me remember it. 💕
When it was released, a local low end theater had midnight shows for years. The crowd would sing along, dress in characters, smoke something, and things like throw toast when they mention a toast. It was wild fun.
I love this movie since I saw it for the first time (in the 80s). They are all incredible, great voices, catchy music, this movie is just fun fun fun. They must have a lot of fun during filming.
I've seen this movie close to 50 times and your reaction helped me actually understand the plot fully for the first time - I never understood the floor show part but when you said "he's like a puppet master playing for himself" and they were under his spell, idk I finally get it now haha I feel kind of dumb but thank you for that
An interesting Tim Curry role can be seen in Legend (1985), starring a very young Tom Cruise. I haven't seen anyone do a reaction for it, but I liked it.
Those ruby red lips are Patricia Quinn‘s. She was lip singing the song. She also played Magenta in the film. Richard O’Brien (Riff Raff) is the one actually singing. Cheers
You did a great reaction video to this. This movie was one of the most inspiring moments in my teenage life, not only great entertainment but also "Don't dream it, be it" . And I did. You are a good team, and you, Robert... are such a cute bear 😘 . Greetings from Germany
Back in 73 (or 74?) I was in high school when the stage show was at the Roxy in Hollywood - a lot of my classmates went to see it. I can NOT remember why I didn't get to go, but man, I do remember being very "bummed": about it. I used to have an autographed T shirt a friend bought me to make me feel better about missing it. PS- Richard O'Brien, the actor playing Riff Raff, wrote the stage play and co-wrote the screenplay :)
Ha ha, I grew up in Tucson, and the New Loft theater (which was, confusingly, the old Loft theater) used to show it every Friday night. I saw it there many times in 1982-1983.
Bit of trivia---Hilary Farr, the star of Love it or List it, plays the bride at the start of this movie. Also, I live in Portland, OR and the Clinton Theater has played Rocky Horror every Saturday night for 43 years. Even during the pandemic they rolled the film every Saturday to either an empty theater or for one person just to keep it going.
The house in question is now a hotel in Windsor. Lots of people have Rocky Horror themed weddings there. Interestingly, Brand and Janet approach it from the back, but end up at the front door.
I've seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show a bunch of times. I just recently brought my fiance to see The Rocky Horror Show at the theater close to wear I use to live and she has never seen it or knew what the plot was. I had to show her the movie and the one that came out for the 40th anniversary in 2016. I told her it was about sexual stuff and she wanted to see it so we went to see The Rocky Horror Show and after she saw it she loved the soundtrack and couldn't stop listening to the music.
the man who played riffraff also wrote the original stage show! he played riffraff for a really long time, holding the record for 2300 shows as the character, and is also the dad from phineas and ferb!
No, R O' B originated the role, but that record is held by the modern actor Kristian Lavercombe who has been playing Riff Raff in the current UK Rocky Horror tour. He has only just given up the role in the past few months with the new cast change (which has Jason Donovan as Frank)
I first saw this on German late night TV in 1984 with my then girlfriend. We were both 16yo Punk kids and after the movie was over we boinked the whole night.
If you can, try and find a clip of the song Superheroes - it was cut between the house launching into space and the birds eye view of Brad, Janet and Dr. Scott in the wreckage. It's short but a nice little tie up about how the three of them are changed after the experience.
Rocky Horror Show started as a stage play in 1973 created by Richard O’Brien (Riff Raff) and Jim Sharman (Musical director). Started at a theatre called “The theatre upstairs”. The cast included many of the movie cast inc O’Brien as Riff Raff, Pat Quinn as Magenta, Nell Campbell as Columbia and Curry as Frank. Johnathan Adams was the Narrator as opposed to Dr Scott in the movie. The show moved to Broadway in 74 with Curry reprising his role as Frank and Meatloaf coming aboard as Eddie and Dr Scott. These all returned for the movie with Barry, Susan, Peter and Charles Gray all getting the empty roles. The audience participation you mention is all part of an album you can get. There is a sequal movie called Shocktreatment which follows Brad n Janet back in Denton. Jeremy Newsome who played newlywed Ralph at the beginning of RHPS returns with Ruby Wax playing his now ex wife Betty. Denton has been turned into a tv studio and hilarity ensues with returning cast in new roles inc O’Brien, Quinn (as brother and sister again) Little Nell and Gray. Guest stars include Barry Humphries(Dame Edna) and Cliff de young as Brad and his twin brother Farley and Rick Mayall.
This movie was WAY ahead of it's time. It was made to shock, awe, and gently mock SciFi and Musicals at the time. It was so fun, even Straits like me couldn't help but enjoy it.
I love this movie growing up. It so much fun going to the live show. Tim Curry is amazing I love in the movie Legend. I love his voice in the movie as Darkness.
I first saw it in the late 70s. A friend dragged a few of us to a midnight showing, the first of many. And when I found myself working in London in 1980, I discovered that the stage show was still running. Saw it six times over the months before it closed, and then saw a revival years later on another visit. I love the movie, but I have to say the play is even funnier.
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A meme went around ages ago asking you to name something you learned from the movies. My answer was if Tim Curry is hosting a party in the rain, expect everything to go sideways.😂
The person who plays Rif Raf the Butler wrote the script
Back in 1977, boyfriend and I were out on a warm sunny afternoon and decided to take in a film. The local movie theater didn't have much really to offer, but boyfriend decided he really wanted to see this cheesy-looking monster movie we'd never heard of showing on the marquee: "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". We argued a little (I wasn't into it), but he won and we went in.
This was the days before large seating theaters were chopped up into multiplexes, so it was a huge auditorium. In spite of that, we were only 1 of 5 couples that were there for the showing. Well, it was the middle of the afternoon on a Wednesday or Thursday in a suburban neighborhood, so 5 couples is actually pretty good.
The Theater goes dim, the giant lips shows up singing the opening song... WTF?
I look at boyfriend, he looks at me, and we realize we hit paradise!!! The whole rest of the film we are rocking in our seats and singing along as best we can!
During the Time Warp dance, 2 of the couples just get up and hurry out, wide-eyed. Meanwhile me and boyfriend are just having a great time! When the film ends, we stay seated, to glean everything we can from the credits and to listen to the music to the very end. The last 2 couples walk out slowly, shocked faces, looking like 'what the hell was THAT!'
We leave, go straight to a record store, and buy the soundtrack, which we nearly wear out with constant play.
About a year later, passing through Georgetown in Washington, DC with a new boyfriend, I see the little art film theater has a late showing of "Rocky Horror", so talk him into going.
We have dinner, do some windowshopping, then go to get in line for the showing.
And THAT is when I first experience the Audience Participation in a tiny theater, a phenomenon I had never known existed.
People in line were in costume as the film characters. The film starts and there's callbacks, rice thrown, water-spritzing, newspaper on heads, hotdogs thrown, toilet paper rolls thrown, cigarette lighters lit. During the Time Warp, there was a line across the lip of the stage joining in and encouraging people to dance in the aisles. It couldn't have been more than a hundred people, but it was a packed house and INTENSE! And crazy fun!
So these are my introductions to this film, as a phase 1 and a phase 2.
Thanks so much for sharing your history with The Rocky Horror Picture Show! Such a vivid recollection which makes us even more hyped to experience it ourselves for the first time tomorrow night!!!
I used to go see Rocky Horror every weekend or two at what was probably that same theater in Georgetown back around 1989/1990. The audience participation was what made the movie so great that my friends and I wanted to go back and see it again and again. I probably went at least 2 or 3 dozen times before I got a different job and couldn't go on the weekends.
I was in a Rocky Horror shadow cast for quite a few years and “retired” 6 or 7 years ago. I’ve tried to watch it a couple of times since then, but without the audience experience it feels like it’s lacking something, at least for me. I hope you had fun at your first RHPC live experience!
I discovered Rocky Horror in high school! A friend of mine played Janet, and I knew her for a little while, beautiful, black eyes and blonde hair, when I was 14 I think and went on HALLOWEEN for Christs sake for the first time!, believe me, because it WAS this holiday night, I saw people dressed up that I have NEVER seen before, a little ahead in line was a man in pantyhose and a g string, all kinds of men and women drastically dressed up for a great Halloween Event! And it was. Crammed inside, people played their roles in front and the sides of the theater. I could FEEL Frankenfurters energy as he swept down the middle of the aisle like nobody's business! Put a gay man in a Frankenfurter costume on Halloween and swing him down the aisle to the front and you will see someone who MEANS business! The rice, dancing, everything was there, so I kept going back on the weekends to continue to see it. They always used the very back theater at midnight when it started. I could always go as long as I came back from the movie when it was over, I guess they didn't want me too exposed to the cast or out past two.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I'm Gen X 😘
@@ChirumboloFilm Totally agree. I can't watch the movie without saying the callbacks lol.
A fun note: Frankenfurter's speech before revealing Rocky is taken verbatim from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Wow, that's cool!
My parents played this soundtrack so much that I learned my left from right by dancing to The Time Warp at the age of 4. Twisted '70s Parenting for the win.
Brian Smith: Twisted, hell. Your parents were awesome sauce.
haha
That’s amazing lol
the GOP would accuse your parents of "indoctrination" now
You win the "Coolest Parents" award, no question.
Lol awesome!!! 🫶🏼❤️🤘
My mother (RIP) was a product of a 1950s upbringing, conservative, modest, and rather naive in a lot of ways. I convinced her to watch this movie because "Mom, it's a musical," and she loved musicals. She also really liked Tim Curry from other films. I honestly wasn't sure how she would feel about Rocky Horror, and I'm happy I convinced her to see it. Rocky Horror totally shocked her, of course! She also enjoyed it so much that when they put on the live show in our town, she eagerly went with me to see it (a play with local actors who did a fantastic job).
That's so awesome to hear that your mom loved it and that you get that memory of your mom for the rest of your life. ❤️ Thanks for sharing!
My mom, born in 1929, also loved it when I took her to see it in the late 1970s
I used to play Columbia at our local midnight showings back in the early 80s. My mom finally went so I was so happy to be able to yell, "My mother is a virgin!" at it as our custom was to announce who first time attendees were before the show started. The guy who played Frankie got a hoot from her because she was asking him how he got his costume together and he was proudly bragging on his girlfriend who had done his costuming and make-up. The cast decided I had the coolest mom. Miss her but love that one of my favorite memories was of her going with me just to see what the fuss was and she had a blast. I was 16 at the time and so grateful my parents let me have enough freedom to do that.
You are so lucky. Gorgeous dahling! I lost my movie virginity on Halloween night I think when I was 14. I had never seen the kind of people who were in line and couldn't believe the performance either!!😍 My friend who got me there played Janet, and her boyfriend played Rocky. 1987!
As someone who first experienced RHPS in the 80s, thank you for your work. I was WAY too introverted to ever even consider performing but I enjoyed going many many times in the 80s and early 90s.
Riff Raff wrote the whole thing and the music and wrote the original stage performance. And I don’t think Tim curry started in it but he was a part of the original stage show as well
The stage performance was in London, so it had british cast. But when they made the movie they needed Americans to play Brad and Janet, but they could keep the London actors as they were supposed to be aliens anyway.
Ah, so...The Butler Did It! (sorry, "Handyman"!)
Tim curry was part of the originals in the play.
Everyone in the movie except Brad, Janet, and Rocky came from the play in London. Even meatloaf performed in the play as both Eddie and Dr. Scott
@@bluarcher4424 Meat Loaf joined the american cast in the 1st run there
Frankenfurter: 'Coming!' Audience: 'So is Brad!'
Janet: "The owner of that phone might be a beautiful woman..."
Audience: "He is!"
My dad took me and my sister to a midnight showing in 85 when I was 11. I was definitely a bit too young. My eyes were opened forever. 😳❤😳❤ Tim’s performance is everything.
I really forgot how unapologetically wild this movie is. And I think more young people especially need to see this. This is what we're fighting for, the freedom to just be ourselves. Fight the good fight. Celebrate LIFE. Don't dream it, BE IT.
Not really, Frankfurter is a Despot who kidnapped, murdered and sexually assaulted people. More akin to a cult leader.
You sure that is who you want as an icon?
A little fact I love spreading: Patricia Quinn (Majenta) recently gave an interview for Doctor Who The Collection in her mansion, next to a poster of - as well as a big cushion with a print of - her own lips (from the intro). And I just think that's a level of extra and eccentric we should all strive to be.
So those were her lips miming Richard O'Brien singing?
@@donkeydarko77 Yes
@@backtoearth1983 Such an iconic opening. Never knew who the lips belonged to, as I'd heard about 5 different options when I was younger
Strange, it was a video about Dr Who that taught me the difference between a fact and a factoid. Humanoids are like humans but not; factoids are the same, like facts but not. A factoid is blatantly not true, but no-one seems to know that these days, including me!
@@SpectrumAnalysis I didn't believe you at first. "an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact." Fitting that it's so misused now.
For such a bizarre, deranged, subversive, flamboyant piece... There's also something very touching and heartbreaking underneath this movie.
When I hear someone say "damn it" the word Janet goes through my mind.
I know there are generations of us who do the same thing!!! _laughing so hard_
Same lol
Showed the movie to our kids last week. The questioning stares we got from them afterwards = Joys of being a parent :DDD
You win at parenting!
Grow up wtach this film it love for it grow though out are families
I watched it as a teenager with my parents in the 90s and haven't seen it in years. Back then my mum would dress my friends and I up for live Rocky shows, we had a wonderful time! My kids are a little too young still but I can't wait to show them!
2:32 🎺 The trumpet player from The Electric Mayhem was named 'Lips' cos Rocky Horror was Steve Whitmire's favorite movie. 💋
I had the pleasure of meeting Barry Bostwick at Galaxycon in RVA a few weeks ago. Nicest guy you could ever meet. He signed the autograph to me Damnit, Joe, I love you.
Such a treasure!!!
Yeah from what I remember Barry will talk about this picture any time. He loves that people still love it and Brad
The Narrator-Professor was played by Charles Gray, who also played Blofeld in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER.
he was also in You Only Live Twice as a British agent!
Back in 2000 there was a 25 year anniversary special on TV. Anthony Stewart Head (Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) played Frank N. Furter on stage in the early 1990s, and he performed "Wise Up Janet Weiss" in full makeup and costume for the special.
and he f'n NAILED IT!
You wondered about the theater cues... every freakin' thing was a cue from beginning to end. I saw the movie in the theater hundreds of times starting in 1976 (I was 15). When I was 17, I ran into my mom there. Apparently, it was not her first time, either. (My hilarious mom!) It wasn't until it was on TV many, many years later in 1993 that I actually _heard_ the movie for the first time. I was shocked at all I'd missed, but had hollered/danced to for all those years. Watching it without an audience was disconcerting so I yelled everything and it took every ounce of restraint not to throw rice, toss hot dogs, use a squirt gun, light the lighter... but I did dance. Thank you for this! Fantastic memories. You both were fantastic!
Don't forget the toast , the news paper and i think toilet paper
At the beginning of the pandemic, 7 housemates from RI (all of them are part of a Rocky Horror group), decided to do a performance as a fundraiser. They acted out the entire movie and it was filmed in one long shot. They all took turns acting as the narrator and had to occasionally use one of their cats as a stand-in. It was amazing!
Random fact! Riff Raff’s actor, Richard O’Brien, was the dad in Phineas and Ferb. In one episode, his character criticized a horror movie, wondering where all the rock and roll musical numbers were.
I attended many a RH midnight showing at the Avon in Providence. RI always possessed a weirdness and creative streak due to so many artists and musicians in the mix of the population. Those days were so much fun, with Lupo's The Livingroom, The Met Cafe, The Leroy, Vet's Memorial, etc.
The official audience participation album is essential. After all these years watching this movie it’s always in the background.
I found the West End live show to be useful to learn callbacks. It was broadcast on the BBC about 7 or 8 years ago and is on RUclips. It's awesome to see the stage actors, interacting with the crowd, and the Narrator was played by several people, including Stephen Fry and Anthony Head.
Richard O'Brien (Riff Raff) is the writer and creator of the musical the movie is based on. And since this movies release 48 years ago, he has gotten to live off the residuals each showing. Because it is the longest running film of all time, playing all over the planet since it's original release.
If I recall, Richard sees little, if anything, from the film. He does make money from theater companies performing the show around the world.
Little fact. He also voices the dad in the kids show Phineas and Ferb. Hence the RHPS references in there.
He now lives in katikati in new zealand . . In Hamilton where Richard Obrian wrote The Rocky Horror Show . . There is a statue to him on the spot where he was a hairdresser and came up wirh the idea . . . He also used to live in the street i now live in . . . .
Toast, newspaper, spray bottles of water !are just a few of the props we’d bring to the midnight showings in the 80’s!
Good to know!
@@LatetotheParty Noisemakers, hotdogs and toilet Paper. Some of the times you use the props are self evident. The toilet paper is thrown around when Jack yells, "Great Scott."
I was lucky enough to see this 8n the theater ALOT in the late 70s, early 80s. My friends and i went all the time.
19:02 "it's tim curry! everyone gets a free pass with tim curry!" no literally. if my partner invented time travel just to go back in time and get with tim curry, i'd only be upset that *I* wasn't the one to do it
I've attended many many many interactive screenings of this all over the world, from Canada to Japan and New Zealand and Australia and love it every time! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁👍
In NZ, this is played most Halloweens.
I saw this for the 1st time as a soldier in Cold War Berlin Midnight in 1988. The audience was so into it costumed and all the theatrics.
I saw this in the movie theater in 1977, I was in college. My husband also made a documentary called “A Regular Frankie Fan” so needless to say, RHPS holds a special place in my heart ❤️😁
We'll have to check that out!
At the 40th anniversary event tim curry came in normal clothes and said he was the only one in the room that didn't look like himself
The first time I watched this I got such a shock at Riff Raff! Richard O'Brien was such a part of my childhood from hosting the game show The Crystal Maze over here in the UK, which I loved and wanted to participate in. So the first time I saw this film I had a weird mix of feelings seeing this eccentric, but family-friendly host play the part of Riff Raff... and then to find out he created the show too?! 😮
I have watched the live show, but only last year for the first time and I loved it!!!!
I've seen it live on stage, played Dr. Scott on stage in college, and been to quite a few screenings, it's so much fun!
We can't wait to check it out live. We've got a screening coming up VERY soon!
Despite it being 30 years since being in a shadow cast, I find I still have to "complete" the movie dialogue with the callback lines.
Thank you for the memories
I was last in a cast in 1992 (played Frank) and I also can't resist... impossible!
My audience participation CD was damaged by the foam they included... 😢
Growing up, when I thought of Tim Curry, I thought of him in Muppets Trasure Island, Ferngully, or him in The Worst Witch. My husband would've thought of him in Home Alone 2. My parents, however... would think of RHPS. And the fact that he's even done Barbie movies. The man has RANGE.❤
My parents raised me well so as a kid my go to for him was RHPS, Home Alone 2, IT, and Muppets Treasure Island lol. I got a nice mix!
@killinglonliness88 My dad's a preacher. One sick day in my Sr yr of high school, my dad asked if I had seen RHPS. I had not. I was 18, and he felt that I was old enough for it. He threw the DVD at me and left the room because he couldn't handle watching it with me. Lol
@@ShadowoftheShades Oh sorry, I wasn’t trying to sound judgmental (though I realize now it DEFINITELY came off that way…) I’m shocked that your dad was a preacher and willingly gave this to you to watch lol. Definitely one of the more open minded ones even if he couldn’t actually watch it with you haha. That’s epic though! I’m glad he showed it to you! I first saw it when camping (in a camper lol) with my mom when I was like 11, she had it on and I walked in like “Wtf is this!?” And she started it over and we watched together and had a great time lol.
@killinglonliness88 Not judgemental at all. I just have always felt that I was behind on things. My folks definitely kept me sheltered until I was deemed "age appropriate." My husband, on the other hand, watched '80s rated R movies from the age of 10. Everyone has different experiences, and Lord knows it's gonna be different for my girls. But I also love letting ppl know about how my pastor dad introduced me to RHPS. It was a moment of him admitting that I was grown up and introducing something he thought was a necessity to see...but could not stand the idea of watching something "mature" with me. MANY years later, he's showing me a movie where Julie Andrews was topless in a scene. *shrug* FUN! Lol.
@@ShadowoftheShades Hahaha ahhh yeah I can understand how he felt in that moment. I still feel awkward with intimate scenes in movies with my family. It’s fun to know how you were introduced to it though! Props to dad!
I've been to Burning Man a couple of times. And for all that goes on, I think perhaps my best time there was when one of the camps put up a big sheet as a screen and showed this at 2 in the morning. There were two lovely ladies as hosts either side of the screen and the whole audience was joining in with the audience participation. Fantastic. Go see it with a crowd.
Probably my favorite musical EVER!!!!!!! Nothing like it before or since...some of the best songs ever, an incredible set & vibe, it's a horror comedy musical, an all star cast including Meatloaf, so quotable...and the sexiest performance of all time by the one the only Tim Curry!!! "Dammit, RHPS, I LOVE YOOOOOUUUU!!!"
We can see why so many love it. It dominated every other film in our poll. Whipped them into oblivion!
@@LatetotheParty The closest musical to it is probably Little Shop of Horrors.
By the way, the European cut is the same at the US version you saw, except you get almost an entire extra song at the very end as Brad and Janet are escaping the house, they sing the song ‘Superheroes’. In the US version, we only hear the very end of the song as the house is lifting off.
Also, Barry Bostwick did record one song cut from the movie and the soundtrack, ‘Once in a While’, and it’s a great song too! I’m sure it’s on RUclips.
There is a musical sequel to this, songs just as great as these, but it’s hurt by the fact that Brad and Janet are played by different actors. It’s called Shock Treatment.
When I was a kid I found out Tim Curry was the demon in Legend because of his eyes and mouth movements. Love this movie and the songs.
Fun fact - are you aware of who Hilary is from the HDTV show Love It or List It? She was Tim Curry's neighbor at the time and ended up playing the bride at the beginning of the film.
Oakley Court was used in a lot of Hammer Horror films. It’s now an inn.
Seeing both of you watching this for the first time is pure joy!!
So happy to hear that! 💜💙
Absolute CLASSIC! "I see you shiver with antici... pation."
For years, Barry Bostwick was the only of the three leads who didn't totally disavow this.
This movie makes me cry
Honestly, the ending was quite emotional and we were pleasantly surprised.
No one else could have pulled off this role better than Tim! His mannerisms, facial expressions, singing are all amazing, also he performed this part for years before the movie was made though so he had the part nailed obviously lol. Many have tried to play this role and failed horribly!😂😂😂 Tim is the absolute best ❤
I would have loved to see a version where Freddy Mercury played the role! Only person who might have given Tim Curry's amazing performance a run for its money.
We used to go every Friday Night if not working to see this movie.
People dressed in Character...brought squirter guns for the raini g scene...rice for the wedding scene.
During the Time Warp audience got up went down by the screen and danced to it.
According to me, Tim Curry was one of the best actors of his generation. 👍
Went to see the original cast performance a month after it opened in 73. It had transferred to a condemned cinema in the Kings Road, Chelsea by then; which was covered inside by scaffolding and sack cloth awaiting demolition. Great atmosphere. The actors playing Frank, Riff Raff, Magenta and Columbia in the movie were in the original stage show, and Dr Scott in the movie was the original Narrator. The only real props then were a tin tray for thunder, a torch for the light, the wheelchair, and the end of a garden fork painted silver as the weapon. The tin tray was accidentally dropped off stage early in the run, but then became part of the show. Apart from the 'f**k off!' there were no audience responses at that time. So lucky enough to have seen it in its original guise.
If you get the chance to see it on stage, you totally should! However raunchy the film is, the stage version is even more so! 😂
ROCKY HORROR isn't just a movie...it is a way of life.
F$CK THE BACK ROW!
F$CK THE FRONT ROW
It probably won't be on the MAGA playlist of favourite movies 😆
Thanks, Robert! Thanks, Vanessa! 🫦 My friend Paul dressed as 'Riff Raff' and attended over 250 screenings in Baton Rouge, back in the 80s. #LateToTheParty #JimSharman #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow1975
That's dedication!!! So glad we are in the know now!
Indeed! They showed him on the local news. 😎
So glad they watched the cut which includes "Superheroes" since that's my favorite song from RHPS.
My family's had a very stressful couple of days, so this is exactly what I needed tonight! ☺️
Sorry to hear that, Helen. Hope this can take your mind off things for a little bit. 💜💙
And major props to Richard O'Brian (Riff raff) who wrote the music and is one hell of a singer! The whole soundtrack is a banger lol❤
Good call watching it at home first. I saw it three times in the theatre at midnight showing in my teen years. I only figured out what the plot was after watching it relatively quietly at home. Seeing it with a group is a blast though. You guys should have a good time.
Funny note, at one point when Frank is singing in the lab with the lab coat on, he throws out his arms. In the 80's Whitney Houston video for How will I know, she throws her arms out just like Frank.
I always laughed when I saw that video.
I used announce dinner just like Magenta.
Me too 😊 MASTER ! DINNER IS PREPARED ! is such fun to shout
Tim Curry originated the role in play. Basically everybody except for Brad, Jannet and Rocky came from the live show. Even Mick Jagger wanted to play Dr's role in the movie but fortunately they decided to stick with Tim Curry.
Back in the pre-internet days, the theater antics related to this movie were a mysterious legend to the uninitiated (and I never did see a showing). The songs would get played on college radio. There was a big publicity deal when it came out on videotape in 1990. I have not seen it since.
One of my favorites ever 👄I used to go to the midnight showings in high school/college. I think it's good to watch the movie at home so you can really pay attention. I saw it in the theater first and it was kinda hard to follow along with people talking over it but it's fun once you know what's going on.
That's a good point. Can't wait to check it out with the live show next!
@@LatetotheParty Have fun! 💕
Going to Rocky Horror was a weekly event when I was in HS. Toast and squirt guns at the ready!! 💜🙌 & TP for the "Great Scott" moments. 🤣
Fun fact: Tim Curry had a few LPs in the 70's. He always had an amazing voice.
We've gotta seek out his music!!!
@@LatetotheParty "I Do the Rock" was pretty big.
I can hardly watch this movie without saying all the audience participation lines 🎉 it’s so much better with a crowed around you!
Funny af, musically stacked with absolute bangers, Actors Acting with a capital A and having both the best and the worst time, and a genuine depth of emotion makes this film the complete package. Fun reactions!
The show started out as a stage musical in the early 1970s, titled "The Rocky Horror Show"; when it was made into a movie a few years later, the word "Picture" was added to the title.
Another fun fact: Those lips at the beginning were Patricia Quinn's, but the singing voice was Richard O'Brien's.
And she was upset because that was her only song in the stage play when she played the cinema usherette who originally sang that song as well as Magenta
And she was upset because that was her only song in the stage play when she played the cinema usherette who originally sang that song as well as Magenta
I was 19 or 20 the first time I went to a screening. That was like 1982. Akers Mill Theater in Smyrna, GA, just north of Atlanta. I became a regular for a while. Hung out with a little group of other regulars before and after the midnight show. We had a great cast a lot of weekends and it was a total blast. You'll hear the words "rite of passage" a lot surrounding this movie, and it's facts. This one and Tim Curry's other important movie, Times Square were life-changing for me.
Great Reaction Guy's To This All Time Favorite Classic Movie 😊
Watch this movie every year since I was a kid, an ex was in a little cal production. The plays are allot of fun. Just love it ❤ I'm so glad y'all enjoyed it
I first saw this in high school, and every time I watch it, I appreciate it more. My fiancé watched it for the first time last year, and he loved it. I’m excited for you guys to go to a screening! And glad you finally watched the movie too!
Oh and I forgot to mention, back when I was an aspiring actor, I auditioned for a stage version of the show in LA. I was in way over my head and didn’t get a part, but it was an awesome experience.
I saw it in a movie theatre in New York City -- the original experience (though a year or so after it debuted). I loved it from the first note... or actually from way before that, as I encountered all the costumed audience members before the movie began. The props, the costumes, the shouting of random hysterical lines. It was something else! I've also directed the original stage version several times. I have never had a negative Rocky Horror experience. Ironically for something so wild and "subversive", it has always been light-hearted and just plain fun! Great reaction, thanks.
OMG everything you said at the end brought tears to my eyes. ❤
Love watching you guys react to this, but if you want the real RHPS experience then you really need to look up a shadow cast performance and see it done in all of its audience participation glory.
We've got one coming up VERY soon!
It's a fun experience.
Also the follow up is called Shock Treatment a lesser known movie.
OMG, I'll not be able to watch this till later, but I can't wait. There's many films and TV shows that I love and know very will, but this is the one that I know every line and song. Hope you enjoy it.
Last month Barry Bostwick was a guest at a convention that was happening in my town. While I didn't get to go to the Saturday night RHPS screening he was there for, he had a booth set up during the convention I was able to go to and chat with him for a bit. He was a super cool guy to talk to, and we even talked about the effects of this movie tight-casting him a bit for similar roles afterwards. Though, he did appear in a Cold Case RHPS themed episode where he played the serial killer and he said that he really enjoyed filming that episode. I got a photo with him at the end of it so it was really cool to get to meet someone who plays an iconic character in an iconic movie.
we had a similar theatre that did RHPS with dress up too. But it was shut down after being active for over 15 years..
Christopher Malcolm who played Rogue 2 in Empire Strikes Back who found Han and Luke in the snow also played first Brad in the London Rocky Horror stage show in 1973 , he was involved with the show till 2004, thanks Y’all
The Loft is my favorite theater in the state. Their lineups have always been awesome, and they carry the Art House Theatre torch well after the Valley Art threw it away years ago. Can't wait to become a member again (just moved back.)
We're there almost every Monday night for "Mondo Monday" so if you see us, say hello!
You got me with that "So it's not just a clever name" 😆 any reference to wayne's world and I fall in love lol. Your reactions were so great to watch, really fun. I hope you go see the show live, if you haven't already.
We'll take any chance to quote Wayne's World. 😂
We ended up watching a shadow cast Rocky Horror watch along at our local theater the very weekend we posted this reaction! It was a blast!
@@LatetotheParty Oh wow awesome to hear from you, and yay!! Glad you got to see it in its full glory 😂❤️Best time I ever had with it was in college at a halloween showing of it in the 500 seat lecture auditorium, so many people dressed up in lingerie, and going full ham with the show, screaming it 🥳😂 crazy wild time. Thanks for helping me remember it. 💕
When it was released, a local low end theater had midnight shows for years. The crowd would sing along, dress in characters, smoke something, and things like throw toast when they mention a toast. It was wild fun.
I love this movie since I saw it for the first time (in the 80s). They are all incredible, great voices, catchy music, this movie is just fun fun fun. They must have a lot of fun during filming.
I've seen this movie close to 50 times and your reaction helped me actually understand the plot fully for the first time - I never understood the floor show part but when you said "he's like a puppet master playing for himself" and they were under his spell, idk I finally get it now haha I feel kind of dumb but thank you for that
An interesting Tim Curry role can be seen in Legend (1985), starring a very young Tom Cruise. I haven't seen anyone do a reaction for it, but I liked it.
This was one of my favorite movies throughout my teenage years and into early college.
Those ruby red lips are Patricia Quinn‘s. She was lip singing the song. She also played Magenta in the film. Richard O’Brien (Riff Raff) is the one actually singing. Cheers
You did a great reaction video to this. This movie was one of the most inspiring moments in my teenage life, not only great entertainment but also "Don't dream it, be it" . And I did. You are a good team, and you, Robert... are such a cute bear 😘 . Greetings from Germany
Back in 73 (or 74?) I was in high school when the stage show was at the Roxy in Hollywood - a lot of my classmates went to see it. I can NOT remember why I didn't get to go, but man, I do remember being very "bummed": about it. I used to have an autographed T shirt a friend bought me to make me feel better about missing it. PS- Richard O'Brien, the actor playing Riff Raff, wrote the stage play and co-wrote the screenplay :)
Ha ha, I grew up in Tucson, and the New Loft theater (which was, confusingly, the old Loft theater) used to show it every Friday night. I saw it there many times in 1982-1983.
Wait...wait...wait....you guys are in Tucson?! That's crazy!
Yup. Always have been!
Bit of trivia---Hilary Farr, the star of Love it or List it, plays the bride at the start of this movie. Also, I live in Portland, OR and the Clinton Theater has played Rocky Horror every Saturday night for 43 years. Even during the pandemic they rolled the film every Saturday to either an empty theater or for one person just to keep it going.
The house in question is now a hotel in Windsor. Lots of people have Rocky Horror themed weddings there. Interestingly, Brand and Janet approach it from the back, but end up at the front door.
I've seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show a bunch of times. I just recently brought my fiance to see The Rocky Horror Show at the theater close to wear I use to live and she has never seen it or knew what the plot was. I had to show her the movie and the one that came out for the 40th anniversary in 2016. I told her it was about sexual stuff and she wanted to see it so we went to see The Rocky Horror Show and after she saw it she loved the soundtrack and couldn't stop listening to the music.
the man who played riffraff also wrote the original stage show! he played riffraff for a really long time, holding the record for 2300 shows as the character, and is also the dad from phineas and ferb!
No, R O' B originated the role, but that record is held by the modern actor Kristian Lavercombe who has been playing Riff Raff in the current UK Rocky Horror tour. He has only just given up the role in the past few months with the new cast change (which has Jason Donovan as Frank)
I first saw this on German late night TV in 1984 with my then girlfriend. We were both 16yo Punk kids and after the movie was over we boinked the whole night.
I was lucky enough to be in HS when this was playing at midnight at theaters every weekend. Great times!
One of my favorite films . I went to an early showing at the loft and it is worth it .the best part is you don’t have to know all the cues
We ended up watching Rocky Horror at The Loft a couple days after posting this reaction. Such a blast!
If you can, try and find a clip of the song Superheroes - it was cut between the house launching into space and the birds eye view of Brad, Janet and Dr. Scott in the wreckage. It's short but a nice little tie up about how the three of them are changed after the experience.
We saw it at the live screening we watched of Rocky Horror last Saturday.
So happy you enjoyed it, amazing show and even better live.
We're watching it live this weekend! Can't wait!
I have Played Frank N Furter in the Live Show I realy enjoyed Acting the Part
Rocky Horror Show started as a stage play in 1973 created by Richard O’Brien (Riff Raff) and Jim Sharman (Musical director). Started at a theatre called “The theatre upstairs”. The cast included many of the movie cast inc O’Brien as Riff Raff, Pat Quinn as Magenta, Nell Campbell as Columbia and Curry as Frank. Johnathan Adams was the Narrator as opposed to Dr Scott in the movie. The show moved to Broadway in 74 with Curry reprising his role as Frank and Meatloaf coming aboard as Eddie and Dr Scott. These all returned for the movie with Barry, Susan, Peter and Charles Gray all getting the empty roles. The audience participation you mention is all part of an album you can get. There is a sequal movie called Shocktreatment which follows Brad n Janet back in Denton. Jeremy Newsome who played newlywed Ralph at the beginning of RHPS returns with Ruby Wax playing his now ex wife Betty. Denton has been turned into a tv studio and hilarity ensues with returning cast in new roles inc O’Brien, Quinn (as brother and sister again) Little Nell and Gray. Guest stars include Barry Humphries(Dame Edna) and Cliff de young as Brad and his twin brother Farley and Rick Mayall.
This movie was WAY ahead of it's time. It was made to shock, awe, and gently mock SciFi and Musicals at the time. It was so fun, even Straits like me couldn't help but enjoy it.
It was offered as a midnight movie for decades in my region... so much fun!
Love that you both laughed and loved this movie, most don’t get it and the humor… a classic!
I love this movie growing up. It so much fun going to the live show. Tim Curry is amazing I love in the movie Legend. I love his voice in the movie as Darkness.
I first saw it in the late 70s. A friend dragged a few of us to a midnight showing, the first of many. And when I found myself working in London in 1980, I discovered that the stage show was still running. Saw it six times over the months before it closed, and then saw a revival years later on another visit. I love the movie, but I have to say the play is even funnier.