Interesting little fact, everyone had thought that Tim Curry quit because nobody saw him during rehearsals, when they got to the scene for his entrance nobody knew he was even there till they saw him in the elevator, and of course being Tim Curry he nailed it first take.
Thing about ROCKY is that the movie is only half of the experience. In the theater it was interactive with live performers and the crowd saying lines...just seeing the movie is just....eh
I met Susan Sarandon at a comic con this year and got an autograph on a Rocky horror poster as a gift for my mom’s birthday. When I told Susan that me and my mom loved this movie she looked at me in disbelief and said “you watched that with your mother?!” 😂😂😂
🤣 Well, fwiw, I took my older two kids to their first midnight showing when they were teenagers (in Berkeley, CA)! I saw it for the first time in 1979 when I was 17, with my brother-in-law who was 15. He had a kind of Tim Curry look (head full of curly hair, big dark eyes, etc), and I’d help him with his Frankie makeup. It was definitely an awakening for me! Oh and a funny coincidence: years later, it turned out the parents of my son’s best high school friend were named-no shit!-Brad and Janet!! Yes, they were subject to the expected jokes all. the. time. 😆
@@majakian Cool! At the UC Theater, right? Yeah, went to the show there a bunch in the mid to late 90s and early 2000s, we might easily have been in the same audience! ☺️ Brought quite a few folks to their first time seeing it in a theater, too: my now-ex, my kids, my sisters when they visited from Texas, among others. (That last one was a big anniversary show, don’t remember what year, but it was over the top. One of my sisters-the one from whom I’ve since become estranged-lost her shit when she saw one of the Frankie players in full costume in the women’s bathroom. Kind of a proto-terf…so not a big surprise that she and my queer, trans self went our separate ways! 🙄)
@@majakian You know, those names all sound really familiar (hi, Skip!), but I have to be honest: I’ve been disabled with multiple chronic conditions for many years, and was never good at putting names to faces (or vice versa!) even at the best of times before age-related memory issues began. I suspect we have indeed crossed paths (which is neat, always fun to run into folks in unexpected places who share a bit of one’s own history!) and it’s so delightful know. I found a wonderful scrapbook of Rocky Horror at the UC full of pics and testimonials some years ago- I think it might be on the wayback machine at this point, but now I want to dig it out again. I recognized so many people the last time I looked, even when I didn’t remember their names! Let’s do the time warp again!
In '79, I saw it in a central Florida theater and was stunned. Went to a showing in Atlanta, GA and saw the full experience. At that time it had already swept across America at midnight shows. Amazing to look back at how people coordinated all the costuming, props without the internet or even dial-up bulletin boards. There'd never been anything like it before and probably since. If you can find a group & theater that still shows it that way, it's a bucket list item you will probably not regret.
The iron deficient Gucci model wrote the musical! The way your heartrate dropped when Frank'n'Furter drops his robe 😂 Yes, Tim Curry in a corset makes my heart skip a beat too! 🤣
Richard Obrien also wrote an "equal" to RHPS called Shock Treatment. Basically, it was what might have happened to Brad and Janet if they did not meet Franknfurter. A lot of the RHPS cast were in it. And the best part, the main female character from Phantom of the Paradise (Jessica Harper) is the main female character in Shock Treatment.
@Deighdreame it's quite disappointing though. Story- and musicwise. Just saw it once and RHPS countless times. Shock Treatment simply lacks sx n drugs n rocknroll...
I knew my buff, blond-headed husband was the one when I made him watch this movie for the first time about 20 years ago. I told him if we ended up going to a live show, we'd have to find some gold underwear so he could be Rocky. This football-playing golden retriever looked me, his black cat goth girlfriend, dead in the eyes and said, "Rocky?! Hell no, if I'm dressing up, I'm going as Frankie." We've been together for 22 years. 💋
I saw the movie, 40 years ago, then the live show some years later and loved it. After that I went to a midnight screening and laughed my ass off as Brad & Janet left the church we were pelted with rice, squirted with water pistols when they walked to the castle in the rain and toast when you guessed it, they proposed a toast.
This wasn't a movie--it was an EVENT! In my town Rocky Horror was shown Friday and Saturday at midnight in an X rated theater. The theater owner didn't care if we "participated" with the movie bc he made WAY more money than with his f*ck flicks--we PACKED that place. We yelled punch lines at the screen, squirted water guns at each other during the rain scenes. Anytime anything was mentioned--cards, toilet paper, hot dogs--we threw them at each other. You came to this movie with a grocery bag full of props. We smoked ciggs and passed joints. We went EVERY weekend. It was a way to stay out late without our parents catching on that we were having too much fun as minors. I quit counting how many times I saw it after 250. I'm 64 now and I can still recite this movie word for word. It was truly a special moment in time.
@@debrawalkermeyer9109 YUP! 57 here, and must have seen RHPS at least 200 times. Participated in the floor show for a few years, played Riff Raff. Can literally recite every single line of dialogue, every single song lyric, and every single audience participation line without missing a beat. SUCH good times.
55 and former "Eddie". I miss those days. We recently did a backyard showing of RHPS at a friend's house and I was the only one providing the audience participation lines. I sat in the back and threw the lines out one after the other. Many of the lines had the group hysterically laughing, but my wife was shaking her head at me. LOL
64. We got lucky in my home town. One year we'd have the film (at midnight, of course), and the next would be at the theatre. I remember one year we corpsed Frank'nFurter. Epic. Getting dressed to go was lots of fun too. Ahhhhh the memories....
I cannot say how many times I went to the midnight showing of The Rocky Horror with playing cards, toast, water pistol and toilet paper. Like you, I believe I could still recite ever single line of that movie without error and I'm 62.
So fun fact, when Meatloaf was cast as Eddie (a part I spent a lot of time as, in the stage show) he was told to just do his best lip syncing 'Whatever happened to Saturday night?" they would record it later and run the tape fast as they thought it was too fast to sing. Meatloaf literally said 'Hold my Beer' and sang the entire song at full tempo with no mistakes. A feat I replicated twice in 12 years of being Eddie on stage.
@@thenecessaryevil2634I think Paddy was part of the original cast, when they transferred the show to Los Angeles, he couldn’t come, and they recast with Meatloaf, who stayed and did the movie.
I had the honor of meeting Tim Curry in line at the Thrifty on Franklin and Chuanga in Hollywood back in the 90s. I was in line, he was directly in front of me, I didn't notice it was him until I heard his destinctive voice thank the clerk. "OH MY GOD IT'S TIM CURRY" I exclaimed. And with that georgeous smile he turned to me and said "Oh my god it is!". Such a nice guy. Thrifty was pharmacy, general store chain similar to Walgreens that was bought by CVS.
FYI, the Richard O'Brien (who plays Riff-Raff) is the guy who wrote all of Rocky Horror Picture Show. He also sang the lead vocal at the start of the movie, when the giant lips appear on screen.
@@carmenfarmer3673 That is true; and it is Richard's voice singing the lead vocal part. Meatloaf also had an interesting story of how he got the part of Eddie. He was the only one who had no problem singing the song "Hot Patootie" without stumbling or flubbing on the words of the lyrics. It is a very challenging song to sing.
@@carmenfarmer3673 she was the one who sung it in the rocky horror show, and was upset for not singing it in the movie because it was the only rock and roll song she liked
He excels in every role he plays. He the GOAT. I can't get enough of his Long John Silver in "Muppets Treasure Islands". Or his magnificent depiction of the Lord of Darkness in "Legend" (with a young Tom Cruise). Hunt for Red October with Sean Connery. Or the ORIGINAL (and much more scary) Pennywise in "IT" from 1990. Or exquisitely evil Cardinal Richelieu in "The Three Musketeers". He is the voice of every Cartoon villain for the last decades. But with his range, I still like him better acting than voicing. I am so happy he is still with us.
Back in 1996, I was in a stage production of Rocky Horror. I played Dr. Frank-n-Furter. My Mom asked me what it was about, I told her it was a unique musical version of Frankenstein. Her and my Grandma came to the show. I'll never forget the look on their faces when they seen me prancing around the stage singing "I'm Just A Sweet Transvestite!" wearing a teddy and high heels. 😅😅😅😅😅😅
You gave them no warning whatsoever? I find that difficult to believe. Sorry. Or else that's just mean. And how did you see their expressions in the dark unless they were in the front I guess?
@@graymoreghost on stage you can still make out faces, your eyes adjust. Plus a stage production can take place somewhere other than a stage, kinda like a Black Box theater. My school only had a black box theater until 2019
You REALLY brought me back with this one! Back in the 80's when I was in 7th grade I was in a school play called "Rehearsal for Murder". It sold out & was a big success, so as a surprise treat afterwards the drama teacher chaperoned & took us all (the cast & crew) to see Rocky Horror in a small theater across the street from the local university. I was the youngest of the group of mostly high school students, so it felt awesome to hang with the older "cool kids" lol! We arrived to find the place was packed with young men and women from the college - everyone armed with their costumes, bags of rice, toast, etc (if you know you know). The entire experience was MAGICAL at my young age. I was definitely not a shy kid, but I remember feeling very reserved & aware that I was so much younger than anyone else, but everyone made me feel like I belonged. I'll never forget when the beautiful young lady who was one of the leads of our play ran up to me, pulled me out of my seat, & whisked me down front for the Time Warp dance. She was the most popular girl in our school and she went out of her way to make sure that I was included and I had the time of my young life! Everything was so new to me. Men dressed in drag, kids throwing rice and toast - the music, the laughter, the dances... it really left a mark on this impressionable young boy from Southern Mississippi. Unfortunately nowadays a drama teacher in Mississippi would probably be roasted for "grooming" or some such nonsense, just for simply exposing me to this movie at age 13. A real shame because it's one of my fondest childhood memories. Wow, I really went on here didn't I?! I doubt anyone will actually read all of this, but once I got started the memories came flooding back! So again, back to my original point - THANK YOU FAIRY VOICE MOTHER!! I simply adore you and your content. You're such a beautiful & lovely person. 🫶
@beargiegler2958 wow - yeah, I was in Hattiesburg as well. Spent the majority of my childhood there & then down on the coast in Long Beach as a young adult. Idk if that old theater still exists across the street (on Hardy Street)... it was pretty old even way back then. I love that city - such a cool sort of melting pot with all of the exchange students at USM. Idk what H'burg is like today (probably a lot bigger), but it was a GEM of a unique small city tucked away in S. Mississippi when I was coming up.
I saw it when I was 16. In 1984. It was EPIC. I saw it dozens of times more, and when we wanted a break (rarely) we'd go to the screen next door and watch "Heavy Metal" but mostly we saw Rocky. My friend ended up being Columbia in the front, but we all got in the aisles to do the Time Warp. Good Times! I found myself doing the call-and-response to this video that came "from the vaults" as I had no idea I still remembered it. And I'm getting a few new, much younger roommates soon and one of them is a Rocky Horror fan! So now I'm on the hunt for any theater that plays it at midnight, if there are any around anymore ... wish me luck!
The makeup artist “and hair designer” behind the looks for The Rocky Horror Picture Show was Pierre La Roche. He was also responsible for David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane makeup looks.
If you dig you can find Nell's bubble gum pop song "the swim". It's best known as a blooper from a live performance, where as she did swim actions, well.... nips. Also the tap dance was put in the Time Warp, cause she could tap dance. But, to think Fankenfurter, and the original IT, same guy, Tim Curry is epic
@@TheFairyVoiceMotherif you rewatch on your own, watch the UK/European cut (you watched the US), there is one additional song after the house blasts off and Brad and Janet are dazedly crawling on the ground. It’s called ‘Super Heroes’ and we only get the last couple on lines in the American cut. And in the musical, but cut from the movie, Brad gets a beauty of a song called ‘Once In a While’ after being with Frank. (There is a sequel with an equally amazing score, also from Riff Raff). The most exposition in the movie is the two minute scene after he medusas everyone. Frank monologues, wondering if he made a mistake splitting Eddie’s brain between Eddie and Rocky (note the huge scar on Eddie’s forehead). My guess is that Frank was the scientific leader of a 3 person exploratory team who got seduced by American pop culture and let his absolute power corrupt him absolutely. But Riff and Magenta are no prizes. Riff ‘accidentally’ kills Columbia, and Magenta barely bats an eye, despite seeming pretty close to Columbia.
You can't imagine, as a closeted young girl in the late '70's, what this movie meant to a lot of us. Hanging out with other queer folks at the midnight movie is one of the first times I ever felt like I wasn't alone. Queer kids have it bad now, but you will never understand what it was like in those days.
In my mid-forties I decided to get a Master’s degree in English. In a British Lit class (after all, O’Brian is a citizen of the Commonwealth), I chose to explicate Rocky Horror Picture Show. It blew the professor’s mind that I explained 14 major taboos and nearly a hundred allusions to works of literature, art, movies, culture and music. O’Brian’s brilliant writing and Tim Curry’s inspired performance had long ago mesmerized me. I still treasure my autographed copy of the script. Oh, I got a A+ on the 13-page paper I wrote.
Tim Curry was born to play Dr. Franenfurter. When Meat Loaf auditioned for the play (before the movie), Richard O'Brien (Riff Raff and creator of the play) told him to not worry about trying to sing all of the words to Hot Patootie since even he couldn't do it. Meat Loaf just said, "I can sing them" and then proved it every night of the play and the movie. He made a deal to show the Paradise By The Dashboard Lights promo video before every showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
From the interview Meat Loaf gave, Richard did tell him not to worry if he couldn't sing all the words and Meat Loaf asked "Why wouldn't I be able to sing all of the words?" and Richard said, "Well, the blokes in England can't sing all the words". Meat Loaf is still my favorite male Rock singer of all time.
@@AcademyNS Honestly, it's like doing the Time Warp to my college years, when it all was new. Four+ decades later, I surprise myself by how many lyrics I still remember.
Interesting... for a couple/few hundred showings around '79-'82 at The Strand and later moved to The Egyptian (both on Market St.) we got the amazingly halucinogenic Betty Boop cartoon "St. James Infirmary" with the incredible Cab Calloway. Never had a Meatloaf vid.
Obviously, two big inspirations for this film are rock 'n roll and B-movies, but the man who wrote the musical, Richard O'Brien (who played Riff Raff in the movie (or "the hunchback," as you called him)) was also inspired by his own experiences cross-dressing and grappling with his gender identity as a young, aspiring actor from New Zealand living in London in the early 1970s. One thing you might find interesting as a music theater person is that O'Brien wrote the musical stage show The Rocky Horror Show in 1973 and it has remained in continuous production since then. Although "Rocky Horror" started as a stage show, when this movie came out, it became one of the biggest cult movies of all time. Theaters had midnight showing every week (some still do, I believe) and people would go every week to sing and dance along in the theater, shout lines and jokes at the screen, act out scenes in front of the screen as the movie played, and, at the appropriate moments, throw toast, fire off squirt guns, toss confetti, etc. I was a late teen/early 20s guy living in Southern California when I discovered Rocky Horror and my friends and I went to the midnight showings in Santa Barbara every Friday night for 2+ years. It was a great time and I met tons of awesome people there who became great friends. I actually tried a few other theaters in other places and it was interesting to me how every theater had its own set of lines and jokes (with a few standard ones, usually taken from one of the cast recordings that made the rounds). Anyway, watching the movie is fun but I'd argue that it's really only a part of the full experience of the phenomenon that was "Rocky Horror." If you ever find yourself near a theater that's playing it as a midnight show, I definitely recommend checking it out. It's a whole-ass experience. To this day, many years after my stint as a regular Rocky Horror audience member and occasional cast member, I can't watch the movie or listen to the songs without my brain immediately responding with all the audience participation lines and jokes jammed in between the spaces. With all its quirks and imperfections, The Rocky Horror Picture Show will always have a very special place in my heart. To whatever degree you enjoyed it, Lolli, I'm glad you did.
She would also enjoy the fact that, not only did Richard O'Brien write it, Tim Curry was the original franknfurter from the play. Also Tim Curry is well known to have been a stage performer, and thus is an incredibly good singer.
Agreed, and I couldn't have stated it better myself. Just watching the movie without the audience participation.... well, you know I used to have the book that Richard wrote with his suggested audience participation lines, I wish I still had it. I did my first 100+ shows in Austin Tx, the lines were a bit different in Dallas of course.... still the toast, newspaper, and squirt guns of course. The 80's seem so far away now, and I guess they are... I wish you peace and health. I'm glad to see you attempt this Fairy Voice Mother, I've been a subscriber for years and absolutely love your content, thank you again.
Richard is actually English . He was born in Cheltenham . He moved here when his dad bought a farm here . . He went to Tauranga Boys College . . Moved to Hamilton and was a hairdresser . . In fact there is a statue to Riff Raff on the spot where the barber shop was where he worked . . I live in the same street he did when living in Hamilton . . . He now lives back in the BOP at Kati Kati . .
There are still midnight screenings here in uber-Mormon Utah around Halloween with a cast and emcee, so I'm sure you can find it in other places in the US, too.
Oh My! The memories! We used to go every weekend in the early 80's for the midnight show...(of course armed with our water guns, newspapers, cards, toast, etc,) I just found myself blurting out all of our audience responses while watching our Fairy Voice Mother watch for the very first time (A RHPS Virgin celebration)! Kind of shocked I remembered all of them after all these years... So much fun!
The first song in the movie tells you everything you need to know. Science Fiction Double Feature. It's all about the old B-Movie sci-fi/horror. Once you realize that, everything else in the movie fits together neatly. Dr. Scott having a German Accent in the 1970s is even a specific callback to the various Nazi Scientists in 1950s and 60s B-movies that are creating horrible monsters post WW2 after being brought to America and given new (hidden) lives in small towns across the US.
@steampunkette187, odd I'd always assumed that the reason why Dr. Scott had a German accent was because he was a monster hunter just like Van Helsing who was also German. I always saw Dr. Scott as a modern day Van Helsing, not a Nazi Scientist at all. I guess everybody has their own interpretations.
@@BaritoneUkeBeast4LifeI can’t believe I never thought of that!! There’s rly soo much dracula in RH lol, i wrote a whole paper on it in grad school. I think a bit of both though! And ive read from other analyses that he’s a parody of the (already satirical) dr strangelove
Van Helsing wasn't German, he was Dutch. Dr. Scott is German, because he is a parody of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, who is also using a wheelchair.
She will not only like Riff Raffs' vocals (Richard O'Brien's, the creator, writer, and performer) but will surely adore Tim Curry's magnificent Sweet Transvestite performance.
@@alexandrapedersen829 Fair enough. I have a few months to brush up on it again. I'll be seeing it on Halloween in Baltimore with Barry Bostwick. Probably one of the last cast appearances we'll get. He's almost 80.
@@davidperlowski1477 Richard O'Brien (Riff) does perform the opening song, however, to which Patricia Quinn lip sync'd for the visual performance of the lips - so you were both part right I guess :)
There is what is called the "British Version" which has some minor tweaks. One big one is an additional song at the end when the castle leaves, the song is called Superheroes. And for context this was originally a play that started in London I believe, and the entire cast, except for Janet (Susan Sarandon), Brad (Barry Bostwick); were from the original run of the play. Meatloaf later was apart of the play in LA before it became a movie (if memory serves me right)
@TheRealSkeletor Almost 30 years after seeing this for the first time, I'd never made that connection before. At least I learned something new. So thank you.
When I was around 12, I asked for the RHPS on video (VHS) for Christmas, having seen it a friend's. Instead, my mum got me tickets for her and me to see it at Wimbledon Theatre. We had seats in the first row of the circle, and I remember my mum telling me to look down at the stalls, as people filed in, removed their coats, revealing their Frank-N-Furter costumes! I still love the film, but there's nothing like a live performance.
DOLLI... Find a venue that shows this at midnight in a audience which you then have to bring water rice toilet paper and maybe a few other things along with you as well as a pinoose paper and probably a raincoat or a rain hat!!!! You must experience it live with the participaTING CROWD !
And bring the water in a spray bottle or squirt gun, not just your regular drinking bottle. Also take a newspaper with you... it ties in with the water. 😁
Little Nell, Eddie, and Frankenfurter were a thruple, then he got bored, and built a new man (Rocky). He used half of Eddies brain for Rocky, that is why Eddie has the scar on his head. Frankenfurter was worried Eddie would charm Rocky.
Back in the day this movie was interactive. The audience would participate, e.g. when Frank caught Rocky with Janet and they were calling out each other's names, when Frank would call out "Rocky" and the camera panned to Rocky the audience would say "uh" in a deep voice. When the narrator came on screen the audience would tell out "where's your neck". In scenes where it rained the audience would squirt water pistols, etc.
I went and watched this almost every Saturday night for years... participated both in the audience and in front of the screen. Experiencing in a crowded theatre filled with Transylvanians just doesn't feel the same.
The "trident" was the pitchfork from his alliteration from American Gothic. Be kind and rewind to the beginning of Brad and Janet's first number and you can see the same pair in front of the church doors in the AG style. The movie itself was the secondary attraction for the RHPS, this was very much a live performance audience participation attraction. Live actors mirrored the movie action and the audience provided background vocals (changing some of the lyrics - we won't repeat those here), props (rice for the wedding, etc.), and even special effects (squirt guns for rain, yes, inside the theatre).
Richard O'Brien, who played Riff Raff, also wrote the book, music, and lyrics of the original stage show, The Rocky Horror Show. The main version of the stage show was in Los Angeles at the Roxy Theater. Tim Curry (Dr. Frank N Furter) and Meat Loaf were both in the cast for that. However, Meat Loaf played Eddie and Dr. Scott. There is a cast album from that production, but it may be out of print now. Tim Curry was the only member of the cast to do the original London production as well as the L.A. production. Richard O'Brien wrote the show as a showcase for himself and played Riff Raff in London, but not at the Roxy. Tim Curry has done other musicals and even recorded a few rock albums. Among the other musical roles: - King Arthur in Spamalot (based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail), original Broadway and London casts - Allan Swann in My Favorite Year (a musical based on brilliant comedy film that starred Peter O'Toole), original Broadway cast. - Rooster in Annie (1982), the John Huston directed film wth Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, and Ann Reinking. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus, original Broadway production...not a musical, per se, but impressive nonetheless...and he was in the cast opposite Ian "Gandalf" McKellen as Sallieri, who won the Tony for Best Actor in a Play for it. Barry Bostwick (Brad Majors) originated the role of Danny Zuko in the original Broadway production of Grease. He later won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for a show called The Robber Bridegroom (a show rarely, if ever, done). He later did a rather huge flop of a musical on Broadway in the 1990s, Nick & Nora, based on the husband and wife detective duo, Nick and Nora Charles created in the novel The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, and later played by William Powell and Myrna Loy in a series of successful films in the late 1930s and the 1940s. A disaster. All this to say, Barry has some chops as a singer. The movie cuts out two songs... - "Once In A While" which Brad sings after his liaison with Frank, as he's feeling guilty. Recorded and filmed, but slowed the pace of the movie, which already has some pacing issues. - "Super Heroes", which you hear the very end of at the end of the film as the Criminologist intones "And crawling on the planet's face/ Some insects called the human race/ Lost in time and lost in space/ And meaning" . Recorded and filmed, but cut because it was an even more depressive ending with the song in the film.
Movie References in "Science Fiction / Double Feature" Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) And Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear - Flash Gordon (1936) (the 80s one is great) Claude Rains was the invisible man - The Invisible Man (1933) Then something went wrong for Fay Wray and King Kong - King Kong (1933) Then at a deadly pace it came from outer space - It Came from Outer Space (1953) Dr X will build a creature - Doctor X (1932) Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet - Forbidden Planet (1956) (leslie Neilsen) I knew Leo G. Carroll [...] when Tarantula took to the hills - Tarantula (1955) When I saw Jeanette Scott fight a Triffid - The Day of the Triffids (1962) Dana Andrews said prunes, gave him the runes - Night of the Demon (1957) But when worlds collide, said George Pal to his bride - When Worlds Collide (1951)
Frank 'n Furter makes a reference to Dr. Scott being "Dr. Von-Scott". The implication that he snuck out of 1940's Germany before he faced the Nazi war crime trials.
It's probably more that like in common with the Soviet Union, the US offered amnesty to Nazi scientists (most famously Werner von Braun, the V2 project leader), in exchange for their research and knowledge. It is what rapidly accelerated the "space race". In hindsight, it's rather amusing that it could be argued that the Nazis got to into space first (with Soviet money) and to the moon first (with US money), despite being defeated in 1945. The US also did the same thing with Japanese scientists (and murderers) from Unit 9420, for all their knowledge and research on the use and effects of biological weapons.
When the stage show was running in New Zealand they had the current Prime Minister playing the part of The Narrator - wearing fish net stockings and garter belt. The city of Hamilton has a bronze statue Of Riff Raff in the alien costume .
A later NZ National tour I worked on had Richard O’Brian as the narrator. When he first stepped on stage, with his big book, the audience would just scream, and after 5 minutes Richard would have to tell them to “shut the f..k up” so he could deliver his first line… The denim tux jacket he wore was later auctioned for charity, along with a guitar. The giant show poster from the front of the theatre is signed by the cast and still hangs backstage in the Issac Theatre Royal in Christchurch.
"That came out of nowhere..." Frank just casually resuming Make You A Man after savagely 😵 Eddie with a pickaxe 😅 Tim Curry's performance is so epic as Frankenfurter. He was a wild and untamed thing. It's sad about his health, but he was able to participate (post-stroke 🤕) as the criminologist in the televised stage version done a few years back (if you can find it, a compare/contrast on the vocal choices would be amazing 🥰)
One of aspect of the fan participation of the show is that it was most often shown in art houses that did not normally get much in the way of crowds. The money the theater made from the packed weekend showings of Rocky Horror, especially year after year, meant that they could keep the doors open longer showing art movies. Cheers.
My favorite audience participation line - when frankie pulls the tablecloth to reveal what they've been eating, the crowd yells "Not meatloaf again!!!" 😂😂😂
According to Meatloaf’s autobiography, Richard O’Brien made “Rocky Horror” at a time when he was questioning his sexuality and the way he presented himself. It was his way of trying to work things out.
you have to get the list of things to say during the movie. The pauses in dialogue were on purpose so the audience could participate. When first released you would get handed a booklet of phrases to yell out. you also had to bring things to the movie, squirt guns to simulate the rain, newspapers to cover your head in the rain, toilet paper for Dr Scott, toast to throw for happy toast, rice for the wedding scene and so on. Most theaters I saw it in, had a cast of people dressed the same as the characters and acting out the movie under the screen as it played. people would get in the aisles to do the dances, it was a blast, a lot of drugs(mostly weed) and alcohol in most theaters also. It was a whole experience in the right theater. To this day, I cant watch it without saying some of the lines hahaha
Tim Curry is fantastic in this. From the voice to the expressions, he's perfect. Makes me wish I could've seen him in the play before it became a movie.
Tiny note: The "Congratulations!" out of nowhere you heard at the wedding is the small person photographer with the glasses. He's in front of Brad and Ralph (the groom) before stepping off screen.
“ The whole thing seems like it may be a bit quirky” is the most accurate pre movie review ever. 😂😂 This is the best awful movie ever made I saw this about 300 times back in the 80’s when we went every weekend to a midnight show. At 61 I could still get the stuff together for a movie experience (newspaper, toast, water gun etc) and do the Time Warp. Dammit Janet, I love you. I never actually heard what Janet said because whenever she speaks the audience Screamed SLUT. When Brad was speaking people yelled A$$ hole or Nerd. The GOAT movie when drinking with friends late at night 😂
When I’m out, in my wheelchair, and my carer puts the brakes on, and I want to move, I always…every single time, say “my veels, I can’t move my veels! 😀 and he, who’s standing a short distance away, knowing I’m wanting to move, sarcastically says “ my feet, I can’t move my feet”. 😂 it always makes us laugh! 🤣 And, of course, when I say, dammit, I have to say Janet!
I worked at a theater in the late 70's, early 80's that ran this every weekend night at midnight for years. Before each showing as a "get in your seats" we showed the video of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"
You haven't really seen this movie until you see it with audience participation from an audience that knows the lines well. The movie was so bad when it was released that people started yelling at the screen ... and somehow it caught on to yell certain lines at the screen and became great fun. That's what made it a cult classic. The soundtrack is also delightful. It was a musical play before it was a movie.
The movie wasn't bad. It's reception was bad. But the people who enjoyed it began to participate as a way to be part of it . I have been watching it since just after it came out stating in movie theaters. No it's just at home in DVD. Believe me none of us going thought it was bad
@@craigplatel813 Interesting take. No right or wrong and you are certainly entitled to your opinion. I'll stick with saying the movie was quite bad apart from the audience participation. The initial reception of the movie was a reflection of just how bad it was. The audience participation would have never been birthed had it not been for the movie being as bad as it was on its own.😀
First time I went to see it in Chicago many, many years back, I was taunted as a virgin while in line, as this was all part of the fun. It was a great experience! So much fun back then. Couldn't get away with any of that these days. 😢
This movie was all about being an interactive experience, that was why people went... people would have props like squirt guns (for when it was raining), toilet paper, toast to throw for the toast scene, during the dinner, people would yell, what's for dinner? Meatloaf! What's for desert? Janet! and when Brad went to his blue room and Janet went to her pink room people would yell, respectively, "Blue is for boys".... and "pink is for girls" ... and when the guy, I guess you'd call him the narrator, appeared everyone would yell "boooooooring [boring]" followed by "where's your neck?" ... and there were several "dammit Janet''s thrown in throughout the movie as well some "oh Brad!"s... people actually got up in the aisles and did the timewarp and many would dress like some of the characters, it was an experience going to see this!
It still is shown in some theaters with the audience participation 😸 I've even seen it done with a full shadow-cast performing in the theater below the movie
Usually, on stage, Eddie and Dr. Scott are played by the same actor, so Meat Loaf should have had a bigger part, but for the movie they decided to put the original West End production Criminologist in as Dr. Scott. Meat Loaf played both parts both at the Roxy in LA and on Broadway. Everyone else, aside from Brad, Janet, and the Criminologist, were from the original West End production. Though, Barry Bostwick has some real musical theater credentials as the original Broadway Danny Zuko from Grease (as well as getting a Tony a few years after this).
They used to show this every Halloween. The audience would throw rice during the wedding scene. They would bring lighters to light at the appropriate time. I remember a documentary when it first came out and they were talking to an insanely major fan. At that point he had seen it in theatres over 100 times. The song Timewarp became a staple in every dance.
I think this is my favorite vocal coach reacts / rocky horror reaction 😂 Saw it at a midnight showing for the first time when I was 16, came out to my friends *during* the movie, and went pretty much every midnight showing from then on - I was still in high school so had to sneak out in my rocky horror outfits ☠️ blame my fishnets and hot pants on frank n furter .
I have lost track of how many times I have seen this movie. I have seen it in theatres and privately. Sadly I haven't seen it for years not since the friend who introduced me to it died. Thanks for reminding me how much I love this experience.
There isn’t anything else like this, it’s a cult masterpiece, and it’s definitely not for taking seriously. It does need watching more than once, it’s been watched and listened to many times through my life 😅
As many others have mentioned… there was a theatre in our community where this was shown every Saturday night at midnight.. we often went (dressed up in various costumes.. and most often ‘slightly impaired’)!! Used to be able to sing every song.. quote most of the words too)!! I’m mid-70s now so most of that has left my brain - but I remember some of it, especially the songs!! Great reaction - thank-you for sharing!
Where you went to see it, did they charge double the regular midnight movie rate to pay for the extra clean up? Where we watched it, the price went from $1.00 to $2.00 for TRHPS. Still worth it. 😜
@BigDave423 Yes, and yes. Worth it. Where I went they even showed music videos before the movie: "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" and "Paradise Garage" by Tim.
You skipped the LAST TWO songs!!!! I have seen this movie more times than I can count. I have performed in a shadowcast more than I can remember. Yes, it is a terrible movie with little to no plot, *BUT* it has a GREAT soundtrack and *TIM CURRY* It does my heart good to see all the young folk come out to a showing and be thrilled by this ridiculous piece of trash that I LOVE so much! *VIVA LA ROCKY HORROR!!!!*
@@i.marchand4655 yeah, some stuff got claimed when I did a video on this some years ago, but that was somehow due to the visual part as well. I challenged the claim and it worked afterwards...
The US cut of the film is different from the UK cut, and in particular leaves out Superheroes (the studio felt it was too depressing for a US audience). She was watching the US cut. Personally I feel leaving out this song is quite criminal.
4:30 it is not so much about getting proposed to in a graveyard. Old small churches used to have their graveyard as part of their frontyard and backyard, which is why it is called graveyard. It's the churchyard where the graves are, as opposed to a cemetary, which is a municipal area cordoned off for nothing other than graves (and maybe one little chappel). The proposal was done in front of the church..the camera was just positioned in a way that the graveyard was shown.
21:03 I always understood it as him not wanting to share the spotlight Eddie comes in like a wrecking ball into the labratory and has a full musical number with his henchmen who love him so the only way to get back control is either kick him out splitting up the party on who decides to leave or killing him so everyone stays and pays attention to him as the main character
What a cultural phenomenon. I'm not always glad I'm old (most of the time I am, actually), but I am thrilled I saw this in a theatre in New York City at midnight. With most of the audience in costume, carrying props, and shouting all the "ad-libs" the show calls for. And thrilled I directed the stage version - which is slightly different and still a hoot - on more than one occasion. Thank you for this fantastic reaction. You totally get it. Now watch it again! :)
Riff Raff's trident/raygun at the end is a callback to his pitchfork at the very beginning, where he and Magenta did a tableau mimicking the Grant Wood painting "American Gothic"
Omg I never noticed the priest was Tim Curry as well! Not just him but Richard, Patricia and Nell are the others are the church, it makes sense because of the budget, but I can't believe this is the only time I'm even noticing this.
Tim Curry, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, and Little Nell are also in the wedding, but as other characters from their main roles. Charles Gray, when asked to do the role of the Criminologist, apparently grinned and said, "Why not?"
Every Saturday night for years they used to play this movie and the audience kept coming back and started to dress up in the costumes and sing along. It became its own experience. For years.
If you're confused about the trident, look at the painting "American Gothic." It's not a trident, it's a pitchfork. This was a love letter to sci fi b movies back in the day. The ending was King Kong- a hulking brute climbing a tower, carrying the limp form of his only love, shaking a fist at the people trying to shoot him down. (If you listen to the lyrics, the Fay Wray they mentioned was the lead actress in King Kong.)
Richard O'brien, the guy who made it and played Riff Raff, is from NZ and used to be a teacher here. My Dad tells me whenever anything Rocky Horror is mentioned how he used to flat with people who had him as a teacher.
Every one but Rocky did their own vocals. Rocky was played by Peter Hinwood but his singing voice was dubbed in post-production by Australian singer Trevor White
Go to a real midnight showing, with audience participation, where they know the callbacks. I don’t know if any theaters do this anymore, or if anyone is left that knows how to do it. But if it does exist, you MUST have the experience. It was one of the few things we freaks and geeks could do like that with absolutely zero judgement. Teens today are missing SO much having your shit wound so tight you’ll dump coal in a week.
interesting little fact, the film was shot at Oakley Manor which used to be the Hammer House of Horror. the manor house was in a very delapidated state and very cold as filming was from October to December and Susan Sarandon caught pneumonia
I have stayed there, they have a collection of lanterns in the entrance hall and there is a grandfather clock in the same place as the movie, no skeleton though. The churchyard is just down the road but the building has be changed.
At the 40th anniversary event for this movie, Tim Curry showed up in normal clothes, and his famous quote from that event was he was the only one in the room that didn't look like himself
Speaking of normal clothes, I didn't realize until this time that Tim Curry is the priest at the beginning. Are other members of the castle cast the crowd?
@@JeshuaSquirrelalmost all of the castle dwellers are there. I don’t know how much of it is supposed to be in a wizard of oz style “and you were there, and you were there” versus just reusing the cast they had to save budget.
I saw TRHPS first on VHS. I didn't particularly like it. Then I saw it again at a midnight movie showing with an audience of Rocky Horror veterans. The audience participation element improved the movie 1000%. In fact, I can't see Charles Gray in an old movie without wanting to yell "Where's your f--king neck?!".
Yep. Back in the day in Chicago, we went to every midnight Saturday showing. I couldn't even guess at how many times I've seen this movie, in a full movie theater, in full costume, with everyone knowing the routines. Then to the punk bars, till closing time at 5am. Good times.
My husband's name is Denton and when we started dating I said he had to purpose to this song. 13 years later how we find out if people are going to be friends with us is by introducing him as Denton as in rocky and if they get it then friends if they don't we then say as in texas. This is my favorite movie and has been since I was 6 years old. I love it so much!
I am a HUGE RHPS fan! Have been since I was 12 in the early 90’s! I absolutely loved watching you experience it for the first time. You picked up on so many things that I think a lot of people miss. If you ever get the chance to watch a live-action version in a theater, please do! The call outs are HILARIOUS, and make fun of the movie the whole way through. Thank you for reviewing this film!
Interesting little fact, everyone had thought that Tim Curry quit because nobody saw him during rehearsals, when they got to the scene for his entrance nobody knew he was even there till they saw him in the elevator, and of course being Tim Curry he nailed it first take.
To be fair, he had it down pat from Live Shows.
Thing about ROCKY is that the movie is only half of the experience. In the theater it was interactive with live performers and the crowd saying lines...just seeing the movie is just....eh
@@lerchfreyley1 Yes, you really need the amped up crowd in costume for the full experience.
I went with my daughters here in the UK it was Amazing total crowd interaction and Everyone dresses up!
If you're interested in rock operas, I'd recommend Repo! The genetic opera
I met Susan Sarandon at a comic con this year and got an autograph on a Rocky horror poster as a gift for my mom’s birthday. When I told Susan that me and my mom loved this movie she looked at me in disbelief and said “you watched that with your mother?!” 😂😂😂
🤣 Well, fwiw, I took my older two kids to their first midnight showing when they were teenagers (in Berkeley, CA)! I saw it for the first time in 1979 when I was 17, with my brother-in-law who was 15. He had a kind of Tim Curry look (head full of curly hair, big dark eyes, etc), and I’d help him with his Frankie makeup. It was definitely an awakening for me!
Oh and a funny coincidence: years later, it turned out the parents of my son’s best high school friend were named-no shit!-Brad and Janet!! Yes, they were subject to the expected jokes all. the. time. 😆
@@literaterose6731 Berkeley, huh? be funny if we came across each other. I was going to Rocky there in the mid 90's, with Riff and Boo
@@majakian Cool! At the UC Theater, right? Yeah, went to the show there a bunch in the mid to late 90s and early 2000s, we might easily have been in the same audience! ☺️ Brought quite a few folks to their first time seeing it in a theater, too: my now-ex, my kids, my sisters when they visited from Texas, among others. (That last one was a big anniversary show, don’t remember what year, but it was over the top. One of my sisters-the one from whom I’ve since become estranged-lost her shit when she saw one of the Frankie players in full costume in the women’s bathroom. Kind of a proto-terf…so not a big surprise that she and my queer, trans self went our separate ways! 🙄)
@@literaterose6731 Do you remember the crew with Kermit, Eli, Riff and Skip? I'm Skip
@@majakian You know, those names all sound really familiar (hi, Skip!), but I have to be honest: I’ve been disabled with multiple chronic conditions for many years, and was never good at putting names to faces (or vice versa!) even at the best of times before age-related memory issues began. I suspect we have indeed crossed paths (which is neat, always fun to run into folks in unexpected places who share a bit of one’s own history!) and it’s so delightful know. I found a wonderful scrapbook of Rocky Horror at the UC full of pics and testimonials some years ago- I think it might be on the wayback machine at this point, but now I want to dig it out again. I recognized so many people the last time I looked, even when I didn’t remember their names!
Let’s do the time warp again!
PLEASE, go to a theater and see this. PLEASE. You NEED to see it in a theater. You'll never regret it.
YES
Hardly any theatres play this anymore unfortunately...the midnight showing is dead, sadly.
There is a pro-shot of the 40th anniversary west end performance (2015) on YT that is absolutely fantastic.
In '79, I saw it in a central Florida theater and was stunned. Went to a showing in Atlanta, GA and saw the full experience. At that time it had already swept across America at midnight shows. Amazing to look back at how people coordinated all the costuming, props without the internet or even dial-up bulletin boards. There'd never been anything like it before and probably since. If you can find a group & theater that still shows it that way, it's a bucket list item you will probably not regret.
At a midnight showing
With a live cast
And an audience that knows the counterpoint dialogue.
The iron deficient Gucci model wrote the musical! The way your heartrate dropped when Frank'n'Furter drops his robe 😂 Yes, Tim Curry in a corset makes my heart skip a beat too! 🤣
Richard was in Dark City as well. Stellar work.
Same andnim a straight bloke hahaaa 😂
Cool that he r.pes Brad at the end to hey!
Richard Obrien also wrote an "equal" to RHPS called Shock Treatment. Basically, it was what might have happened to Brad and Janet if they did not meet Franknfurter. A lot of the RHPS cast were in it. And the best part, the main female character from Phantom of the Paradise (Jessica Harper) is the main female character in Shock Treatment.
@Deighdreame it's quite disappointing though. Story- and musicwise. Just saw it once and RHPS countless times. Shock Treatment simply lacks sx n drugs n rocknroll...
I knew my buff, blond-headed husband was the one when I made him watch this movie for the first time about 20 years ago. I told him if we ended up going to a live show, we'd have to find some gold underwear so he could be Rocky. This football-playing golden retriever looked me, his black cat goth girlfriend, dead in the eyes and said, "Rocky?! Hell no, if I'm dressing up, I'm going as Frankie." We've been together for 22 years. 💋
I saw the movie, 40 years ago, then the live show some years later and loved it. After that I went to a midnight screening and laughed my ass off as Brad & Janet left the church we were pelted with rice, squirted with water pistols when they walked to the castle in the rain and toast when you guessed it, they proposed a toast.
How utterly wonderful!
Brilliant!
I mean... you had no choice at that point. You HAD to marry him, he was definitely the one.
Great story!! And a beautiful connected couple. Congratulations😂
“But what’s the Time Warp, really?”
Well, you see, it’s just a jump to the left…
Then a step to the right....
Put your hands on your hips...
Pull your knees in tiIIIIGHT!
But the pelvic thrust really drives you insane
And lets do the Time Warp again
This wasn't a movie--it was an EVENT! In my town Rocky Horror was shown Friday and Saturday at midnight in an X rated theater. The theater owner didn't care if we "participated" with the movie bc he made WAY more money than with his f*ck flicks--we PACKED that place. We yelled punch lines at the screen, squirted water guns at each other during the rain scenes. Anytime anything was mentioned--cards, toilet paper, hot dogs--we threw them at each other. You came to this movie with a grocery bag full of props. We smoked ciggs and passed joints. We went EVERY weekend. It was a way to stay out late without our parents catching on that we were having too much fun as minors. I quit counting how many times I saw it after 250. I'm 64 now and I can still recite this movie word for word. It was truly a special moment in time.
We could be besties! 61 here and I loved this
@@debrawalkermeyer9109 YUP! 57 here, and must have seen RHPS at least 200 times. Participated in the floor show for a few years, played Riff Raff. Can literally recite every single line of dialogue, every single song lyric, and every single audience participation line without missing a beat. SUCH good times.
55 and former "Eddie". I miss those days. We recently did a backyard showing of RHPS at a friend's house and I was the only one providing the audience participation lines. I sat in the back and threw the lines out one after the other. Many of the lines had the group hysterically laughing, but my wife was shaking her head at me. LOL
64. We got lucky in my home town. One year we'd have the film (at midnight, of course), and the next would be at the theatre. I remember one year we corpsed Frank'nFurter. Epic. Getting dressed to go was lots of fun too. Ahhhhh the memories....
I cannot say how many times I went to the midnight showing of The Rocky Horror with playing cards, toast, water pistol and toilet paper. Like you, I believe I could still recite ever single line of that movie without error and I'm 62.
So fun fact, when Meatloaf was cast as Eddie (a part I spent a lot of time as, in the stage show) he was told to just do his best lip syncing 'Whatever happened to Saturday night?" they would record it later and run the tape fast as they thought it was too fast to sing. Meatloaf literally said 'Hold my Beer' and sang the entire song at full tempo with no mistakes. A feat I replicated twice in 12 years of being Eddie on stage.
I thought Meatloaf had been part of the stage performance before the movie.
@@DragonLandlord No, in the theater show Paddy O'hagan played Eddie and Doctor Scott
@@thenecessaryevil2634I think Paddy was part of the original cast, when they transferred the show to Los Angeles, he couldn’t come, and they recast with Meatloaf, who stayed and did the movie.
@@DragonLandlord he was surprised he had to wear heels, so I don't think he was in the theatre show 😅
I had the honor of meeting Tim Curry in line at the Thrifty on Franklin and Chuanga in Hollywood back in the 90s. I was in line, he was directly in front of me, I didn't notice it was him until I heard his destinctive voice thank the clerk. "OH MY GOD IT'S TIM CURRY" I exclaimed. And with that georgeous smile he turned to me and said "Oh my god it is!". Such a nice guy.
Thrifty was pharmacy, general store chain similar to Walgreens that was bought by CVS.
I would have passed out lol
I would have swooned
FYI, the Richard O'Brien (who plays Riff-Raff) is the guy who wrote all of Rocky Horror Picture Show. He also sang the lead vocal at the start of the movie, when the giant lips appear on screen.
Also, I once heard Patricia Quinn in an interview say that it was her mouth.
@@carmenfarmer3673 That is true; and it is Richard's voice singing the lead vocal part. Meatloaf also had an interesting story of how he got the part of Eddie. He was the only one who had no problem singing the song "Hot Patootie" without stumbling or flubbing on the words of the lyrics. It is a very challenging song to sing.
@@carmenfarmer3673 she was the one who sung it in the rocky horror show, and was upset for not singing it in the movie because it was the only rock and roll song she liked
Richard O'Brien was sacked from the film Flash Gordon & then he wrote Rocky Horror
"He's using his whole mouth."
You're damned right he is.
'swat brad said
Coming....
@@LunaVee3435 🤣🤣🤣
@@LunaVee3435 and Janet…
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The fact that Tim Curry could run in those heels without breaking his neck is AMAZING!!!
As opposed to the criminologist, who miraculously performed despite not having one.
The world record over 100m in high heels is 14.02sec
I've watched several professional productions of Rocky Horror and the Tim Curry one is the best.
@@patmanchester8045 was he the original Frankenfurter? I know it was a stage show before the movie.
@@derekdecker555 As far as I know, yes
This movie is why Tim Curry is everything. Nobody else has managed to perfect this role. Fucking perfection.
"Time Curry"? I gotta get me a bowl of that!
@@alanguerin610 🤣🤣 Fixing that now!!
He excels in every role he plays. He the GOAT. I can't get enough of his Long John Silver in "Muppets Treasure Islands". Or his magnificent depiction of the Lord of Darkness in "Legend" (with a young Tom Cruise). Hunt for Red October with Sean Connery. Or the ORIGINAL (and much more scary) Pennywise in "IT" from 1990. Or exquisitely evil Cardinal Richelieu in "The Three Musketeers". He is the voice of every Cartoon villain for the last decades. But with his range, I still like him better acting than voicing. I am so happy he is still with us.
Plus he did a lot of voice acting roles and FMV sequences in games like the Red Alert series...
@@rwandaforever6744He stole Ferngully if you ask me. Robin Williams was great of course but Tim just ‘oozes’ evil lol.
Back in 1996, I was in a stage production of Rocky Horror. I played Dr. Frank-n-Furter. My Mom asked me what it was about, I told her it was a unique musical version of Frankenstein. Her and my Grandma came to the show. I'll never forget the look on their faces when they seen me prancing around the stage singing "I'm Just A Sweet Transvestite!" wearing a teddy and high heels. 😅😅😅😅😅😅
I love this story! 😂
You gave them no warning whatsoever? I find that difficult to believe. Sorry. Or else that's just mean. And how did you see their expressions in the dark unless they were in the front I guess?
@@graymoreghost It's a bit of a hard thing to tell your folks tbf
@@graymoreghost on stage you can still make out faces, your eyes adjust. Plus a stage production can take place somewhere other than a stage, kinda like a Black Box theater. My school only had a black box theater until 2019
You REALLY brought me back with this one! Back in the 80's when I was in 7th grade I was in a school play called "Rehearsal for Murder". It sold out & was a big success, so as a surprise treat afterwards the drama teacher chaperoned & took us all (the cast & crew) to see Rocky Horror in a small theater across the street from the local university. I was the youngest of the group of mostly high school students, so it felt awesome to hang with the older "cool kids" lol! We arrived to find the place was packed with young men and women from the college - everyone armed with their costumes, bags of rice, toast, etc (if you know you know). The entire experience was MAGICAL at my young age. I was definitely not a shy kid, but I remember feeling very reserved & aware that I was so much younger than anyone else, but everyone made me feel like I belonged. I'll never forget when the beautiful young lady who was one of the leads of our play ran up to me, pulled me out of my seat, & whisked me down front for the Time Warp dance. She was the most popular girl in our school and she went out of her way to make sure that I was included and I had the time of my young life! Everything was so new to me. Men dressed in drag, kids throwing rice and toast - the music, the laughter, the dances... it really left a mark on this impressionable young boy from Southern Mississippi. Unfortunately nowadays a drama teacher in Mississippi would probably be roasted for "grooming" or some such nonsense, just for simply exposing me to this movie at age 13. A real shame because it's one of my fondest childhood memories.
Wow, I really went on here didn't I?! I doubt anyone will actually read all of this, but once I got started the memories came flooding back! So again, back to my original point - THANK YOU FAIRY VOICE MOTHER!! I simply adore you and your content. You're such a beautiful & lovely person. 🫶
I read it...saw it when i was 16. It was amazing magical experience....in 1985.
I loved your memory. It's what this was all about.
@beargiegler2958 wow - yeah, I was in Hattiesburg as well. Spent the majority of my childhood there & then down on the coast in Long Beach as a young adult. Idk if that old theater still exists across the street (on Hardy Street)... it was pretty old even way back then. I love that city - such a cool sort of melting pot with all of the exchange students at USM. Idk what H'burg is like today (probably a lot bigger), but it was a GEM of a unique small city tucked away in S. Mississippi when I was coming up.
I saw it when I was 16. In 1984. It was EPIC. I saw it dozens of times more, and when we wanted a break (rarely) we'd go to the screen next door and watch "Heavy Metal" but mostly we saw Rocky. My friend ended up being Columbia in the front, but we all got in the aisles to do the Time Warp. Good Times! I found myself doing the call-and-response to this video that came "from the vaults" as I had no idea I still remembered it. And I'm getting a few new, much younger roommates soon and one of them is a Rocky Horror fan! So now I'm on the hunt for any theater that plays it at midnight, if there are any around anymore ... wish me luck!
The makeup artist “and hair designer” behind the looks for The Rocky Horror Picture Show was Pierre La Roche. He was also responsible for David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane makeup looks.
Nell Campbell (squeaky voiced girl) was actually doing an impersonation of Betty Boop. In case you missed the reference.
ahhhh I did miss that reference! Very cool, thank you!
If you dig you can find Nell's bubble gum pop song "the swim". It's best known as a blooper from a live performance, where as she did swim actions, well.... nips.
Also the tap dance was put in the Time Warp, cause she could tap dance.
But, to think Fankenfurter, and the original IT, same guy, Tim Curry is epic
@@TheFairyVoiceMotherif you rewatch on your own, watch the UK/European cut (you watched the US), there is one additional song after the house blasts off and Brad and Janet are dazedly crawling on the ground. It’s called ‘Super Heroes’ and we only get the last couple on lines in the American cut. And in the musical, but cut from the movie, Brad gets a beauty of a song called ‘Once In a While’ after being with Frank. (There is a sequel with an equally amazing score, also from Riff Raff). The most exposition in the movie is the two minute scene after he medusas everyone. Frank monologues, wondering if he made a mistake splitting Eddie’s brain between Eddie and Rocky (note the huge scar on Eddie’s forehead). My guess is that Frank was the scientific leader of a 3 person exploratory team who got seduced by American pop culture and let his absolute power corrupt him absolutely. But Riff and Magenta are no prizes. Riff ‘accidentally’ kills Columbia, and Magenta barely bats an eye, despite seeming pretty close to Columbia.
She's also Australian...
so she could have used "stereotypical Aussie-ism" to fall back on.
I think she missed a lot of references.
"I love his mouth". That's what Brad said, too.
Nice😂
🫦😏
And Janet.
Doctor Von Scott, former nazi scientist.
You can't imagine, as a closeted young girl in the late '70's, what this movie meant to a lot of us. Hanging out with other queer folks at the midnight movie is one of the first times I ever felt like I wasn't alone. Queer kids have it bad now, but you will never understand what it was like in those days.
In my mid-forties I decided to get a Master’s degree in English. In a British Lit class (after all, O’Brian is a citizen of the Commonwealth), I chose to explicate Rocky Horror Picture Show. It blew the professor’s mind that I explained 14 major taboos and nearly a hundred allusions to works of literature, art, movies, culture and music. O’Brian’s brilliant writing and Tim Curry’s inspired performance had long ago mesmerized me. I still treasure my autographed copy of the script.
Oh, I got a A+ on the 13-page paper I wrote.
I would love to read that paper!
Same! Please upload it somewhere!
Tim Curry was born to play Dr. Franenfurter. When Meat Loaf auditioned for the play (before the movie), Richard O'Brien (Riff Raff and creator of the play) told him to not worry about trying to sing all of the words to Hot Patootie since even he couldn't do it. Meat Loaf just said, "I can sing them" and then proved it every night of the play and the movie. He made a deal to show the Paradise By The Dashboard Lights promo video before every showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
From the interview Meat Loaf gave, Richard did tell him not to worry if he couldn't sing all the words and Meat Loaf asked "Why wouldn't I be able to sing all of the words?" and Richard said, "Well, the blokes in England can't sing all the words". Meat Loaf is still my favorite male Rock singer of all time.
We had that video, plus Tim's I Do the Rock and Paradise Garage. It was a great time to be alive.
@@AcademyNS Honestly, it's like doing the Time Warp to my college years, when it all was new. Four+ decades later, I surprise myself by how many lyrics I still remember.
Interesting... for a couple/few hundred showings around '79-'82 at The Strand and later moved to The Egyptian (both on Market St.) we got the amazingly halucinogenic Betty Boop cartoon "St. James Infirmary" with the incredible Cab Calloway. Never had a Meatloaf vid.
I always thought he was singing opportunity!
"It's Boris Johnson" had me lolling so hard I fell of my computer chair laughing.
Yeah, adding this to my AP lines.
That’s going in the new era audience script for sure.
Obviously, two big inspirations for this film are rock 'n roll and B-movies, but the man who wrote the musical, Richard O'Brien (who played Riff Raff in the movie (or "the hunchback," as you called him)) was also inspired by his own experiences cross-dressing and grappling with his gender identity as a young, aspiring actor from New Zealand living in London in the early 1970s. One thing you might find interesting as a music theater person is that O'Brien wrote the musical stage show The Rocky Horror Show in 1973 and it has remained in continuous production since then.
Although "Rocky Horror" started as a stage show, when this movie came out, it became one of the biggest cult movies of all time. Theaters had midnight showing every week (some still do, I believe) and people would go every week to sing and dance along in the theater, shout lines and jokes at the screen, act out scenes in front of the screen as the movie played, and, at the appropriate moments, throw toast, fire off squirt guns, toss confetti, etc. I was a late teen/early 20s guy living in Southern California when I discovered Rocky Horror and my friends and I went to the midnight showings in Santa Barbara every Friday night for 2+ years. It was a great time and I met tons of awesome people there who became great friends.
I actually tried a few other theaters in other places and it was interesting to me how every theater had its own set of lines and jokes (with a few standard ones, usually taken from one of the cast recordings that made the rounds). Anyway, watching the movie is fun but I'd argue that it's really only a part of the full experience of the phenomenon that was "Rocky Horror." If you ever find yourself near a theater that's playing it as a midnight show, I definitely recommend checking it out. It's a whole-ass experience.
To this day, many years after my stint as a regular Rocky Horror audience member and occasional cast member, I can't watch the movie or listen to the songs without my brain immediately responding with all the audience participation lines and jokes jammed in between the spaces. With all its quirks and imperfections, The Rocky Horror Picture Show will always have a very special place in my heart.
To whatever degree you enjoyed it, Lolli, I'm glad you did.
She would also enjoy the fact that, not only did Richard O'Brien write it, Tim Curry was the original franknfurter from the play. Also Tim Curry is well known to have been a stage performer, and thus is an incredibly good singer.
Agreed, and I couldn't have stated it better myself. Just watching the movie without the audience participation.... well, you know I used to have the book that Richard wrote with his suggested audience participation lines, I wish I still had it. I did my first 100+ shows in Austin Tx, the lines were a bit different in Dallas of course.... still the toast, newspaper, and squirt guns of course. The 80's seem so far away now, and I guess they are... I wish you peace and health. I'm glad to see you attempt this
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We would go to the Biograph Theater in chicago to watch. It was the Theater where John Dillinger got killed
Richard is actually English . He was born in Cheltenham . He moved here when his dad bought a farm here .
. He went to Tauranga Boys College . . Moved to Hamilton and was a hairdresser .
. In fact there is a statue to Riff Raff on the spot where the barber shop was where he worked . . I live in the same street he did when living in Hamilton . . . He now lives back in the BOP at Kati Kati . .
There are still midnight screenings here in uber-Mormon Utah around Halloween with a cast and emcee, so I'm sure you can find it in other places in the US, too.
Greatings to all who have CELEBRATED this Movie MORE THAN 100 TIMES !!!!!
Without the audience participation, it's just amusing. With audience participation, it's f*cking amazing.
in the 80s we didn't have social media, we had audience participation midnight movies😁😁😁😁😁😁this is terribly delightful to watch with you
And the 90’s!
Oh My! The memories! We used to go every weekend in the early 80's for the midnight show...(of course armed with our water guns, newspapers, cards, toast, etc,) I just found myself blurting out all of our audience responses while watching our Fairy Voice Mother watch for the very first time (A RHPS Virgin celebration)! Kind of shocked I remembered all of them after all these years... So much fun!
I know. I was in high school in the 80s and saw it about 9 or 10 times, which I know isn't a lot
@@maryjacobs6683You know as a virgin, she would be auctioned off at the showing
Damn straight! And it was a hell of a time! We couldn't be on our phones all day...they were stuck to the wall with a long cord!
The first song in the movie tells you everything you need to know. Science Fiction Double Feature. It's all about the old B-Movie sci-fi/horror. Once you realize that, everything else in the movie fits together neatly. Dr. Scott having a German Accent in the 1970s is even a specific callback to the various Nazi Scientists in 1950s and 60s B-movies that are creating horrible monsters post WW2 after being brought to America and given new (hidden) lives in small towns across the US.
@steampunkette187, odd I'd always assumed that the reason why Dr. Scott had a German accent was because he was a monster hunter just like Van Helsing who was also German. I always saw Dr. Scott as a modern day Van Helsing, not a Nazi Scientist at all. I guess everybody has their own interpretations.
@@BaritoneUkeBeast4LifeI can’t believe I never thought of that!! There’s rly soo much dracula in RH lol, i wrote a whole paper on it in grad school. I think a bit of both though! And ive read from other analyses that he’s a parody of the (already satirical) dr strangelove
The theme also tells you that it's about '50s rock 'n' roll. It's even more pronounced in the recording of the London stage show.
Van Helsing wasn't German, he was Dutch.
Dr. Scott is German, because he is a parody of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, who is also using a wheelchair.
“Brad that’s a sock!” Killed me. 🤣
I came to the comments to say that
Pulled up comments on my phone the moment she said that 🤣
Sus that Lolli's gaze went there straight away
See, she's getting it! Now just YELL THAT in the theater, you'll be fine!
@@lewe666 But isn't it nice?
I just noticed: when Brad and Janet were in the car when they got the flat, on the radio was Richard Nixon's resignation address in 1974.
The movie action is supposedly in October, but that speech was made on the 8th of August.
Richard O'Brien always regretted putting that in the movie.
The movie is supposed to be a homage to old 1950s science fiction movies . With a theme of ' Don't dream it , be it "!
Almost every line of the credits refers to a 50s SF movie. It's fun to track them down!
Yes, a lot of the musical choices reflect the music of the 50s as well.
_"It's Boris Johnson"_
Now you pointed it out, I cannot unsee it.
Same 😂
Dammit.
@@wombleofwimbledon5442 Janet
@@wombleofwimbledon5442 Janet
"Well, thanks for that image. Frank-n-feurter's project went to pot somewhere.
Tim Curry's performance in this was simply iconic!
Didn't he do his own makeup for this?
Truth!
@@capt.k6554the budget was low enough that it would not surprise me
@@capt.k6554 It was was a VERY small budget movie.
Like Pennywise.
She will not only like Riff Raffs' vocals (Richard O'Brien's, the creator, writer, and performer) but will surely adore Tim Curry's magnificent Sweet Transvestite performance.
Who wants to be the first to tell her that Riff was also the lips in the intro?
@@davidperlowski1477 And the clown in the original IT television miniseries.
@@davidperlowski1477 The lips belong to Patricia Quinn (Magenta).
@@alexandrapedersen829 Fair enough. I have a few months to brush up on it again. I'll be seeing it on Halloween in Baltimore with Barry Bostwick. Probably one of the last cast appearances we'll get. He's almost 80.
@@davidperlowski1477 Richard O'Brien (Riff) does perform the opening song, however, to which Patricia Quinn lip sync'd for the visual performance of the lips - so you were both part right I guess :)
"Of course he's English. He's probably evil." He's a Bond villain!
There is what is called the "British Version" which has some minor tweaks. One big one is an additional song at the end when the castle leaves, the song is called Superheroes.
And for context this was originally a play that started in London I believe, and the entire cast, except for Janet (Susan Sarandon), Brad (Barry Bostwick); were from the original run of the play. Meatloaf later was apart of the play in LA before it became a movie (if memory serves me right)
Superheroes is my favorite song!
"Why does he have a Trident?" That's your question watching this? HAHAHA
Because it was the pitchfork from the American Gothic analogue in the opening scene at the church.
@TheRealSkeletor where EVERYONE appears, even Tim...
@TheRealSkeletor Almost 30 years after seeing this for the first time, I'd never made that connection before. At least I learned something new. So thank you.
@@wombleofwimbledon5442 Yeah, when she said the priest was sad I noticed who it was. Dysphoria perhaps?
How in the bat out of hell have you not seen this cultural masterpiece before?
My thoughts exactly. I was barely in double figure age when I first saw it.
Maybe she was UNDER SSSSSEEEEEDDDAAAATTTIOOOOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!
Better late than never I suppose. Gosh, I think I was 5. Nobody judge my parents! Lol!
one of my housemates who is supposedly alternative, has also never seen it before. i tried to get him to watch it, and he just got angry.
It’s a shock (treatment) 😆
Shock treatment being the follow up film by Richard
Great reaction and insight ❤
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, is a must.
You’re awesome 😎
Keep it up 👍
When I was around 12, I asked for the RHPS on video (VHS) for Christmas, having seen it a friend's. Instead, my mum got me tickets for her and me to see it at Wimbledon Theatre. We had seats in the first row of the circle, and I remember my mum telling me to look down at the stalls, as people filed in, removed their coats, revealing their Frank-N-Furter costumes! I still love the film, but there's nothing like a live performance.
“Seems like it might be a bit quirky” quirky is an understatement
Anyone else yelling the audience lines? I can't remember life never knowing this movie
6:25 "Where's your neck?"
"What's for dinner?"
MEATLOAF!!! 😁
"Janet", "Doctor Scott", "Janet", "Brad", "Rocky", "Bullwinkle".
Oh yeah 😁
Couldn't help it.
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE LIONEL RICHIE SONG??? "hEULLo" just wrecks me every time
DOLLI... Find a venue that shows this at midnight in a audience which you then have to bring water rice toilet paper and maybe a few other things along with you as well as a pinoose paper and probably a raincoat or a rain hat!!!! You must experience it live with the participaTING CROWD !
Toast!
@@snapdoc yessss
Best to go with a friend(s) who know what they are doing there.
And a newspaper… and a deck of cards…
And bring the water in a spray bottle or squirt gun, not just your regular drinking bottle. Also take a newspaper with you... it ties in with the water. 😁
Richard O'Brien is also a Kiwi, from Tauranga and Hamilton.... where there is now an 8' statue of him in his alien Riff-raff costume
We are proud of him.
Which has a live feed running!
Dark City!
Where is it? My friend lives in Tauranga
@@helenag.9386 The Riff Raff statue is in Hamilton on Victoria St. It's on Google maps
Little Nell, Eddie, and Frankenfurter were a thruple, then he got bored, and built a new man (Rocky). He used half of Eddies brain for Rocky, that is why Eddie has the scar on his head. Frankenfurter was worried Eddie would charm Rocky.
Not exactly. He dumped Columbia for Eddy then dumped Eddy (yet used half his brain) to create Rocky.
Back in the day this movie was interactive. The audience would participate, e.g. when Frank caught Rocky with Janet and they were calling out each other's names, when Frank would call out "Rocky" and the camera panned to Rocky the audience would say "uh" in a deep voice. When the narrator came on screen the audience would tell out "where's your neck". In scenes where it rained the audience would squirt water pistols, etc.
Still do
And back in the 70s.. some of us even had copies of the Denton Plain Dealer *the correct newspaper to put over our heads for those squirt guns.
it still is! i'm in my 20s and a group of my friends go once a month!
"Chuckey Grey, he's ok, he's go no f,,,g neck"
I went and watched this almost every Saturday night for years... participated both in the audience and in front of the screen. Experiencing in a crowded theatre filled with Transylvanians just doesn't feel the same.
Even in Germany we did that. Good times.
Same. Late night Fri & Sat, all the freaks would come out.
Same, suburbs of Pittsburgh in the early 1990s
Junior High in the late 70's in West Hollywood. Was that ever an eye opening experience!
Kimberley theatre in Perth Western Australia - same thing!
Our first date was a 6 pack and Rocky Horror at midnight in a college town. 32 years later we are still together.
The "trident" was the pitchfork from his alliteration from American Gothic. Be kind and rewind to the beginning of Brad and Janet's first number and you can see the same pair in front of the church doors in the AG style. The movie itself was the secondary attraction for the RHPS, this was very much a live performance audience participation attraction. Live actors mirrored the movie action and the audience provided background vocals (changing some of the lyrics - we won't repeat those here), props (rice for the wedding, etc.), and even special effects (squirt guns for rain, yes, inside the theatre).
Actually, Tim Curry (Frank N Furter) is the minister in that scene. Tim, Richard and Patricia are at the church.
It's been forever since I had a reason to bring toilet paper and toast to a movie theater.
@@ElectroT0y Nell is in the church scene as well. She's inside the church, sitting down in a pew camera left.
Weird fact: the models for American Gothic were siblings.
Richard O'Brien, who played Riff Raff, also wrote the book, music, and lyrics of the original stage show, The Rocky Horror Show. The main version of the stage show was in Los Angeles at the Roxy Theater. Tim Curry (Dr. Frank N Furter) and Meat Loaf were both in the cast for that. However, Meat Loaf played Eddie and Dr. Scott. There is a cast album from that production, but it may be out of print now. Tim Curry was the only member of the cast to do the original London production as well as the L.A. production. Richard O'Brien wrote the show as a showcase for himself and played Riff Raff in London, but not at the Roxy.
Tim Curry has done other musicals and even recorded a few rock albums. Among the other musical roles:
- King Arthur in Spamalot (based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail), original Broadway and London casts
- Allan Swann in My Favorite Year (a musical based on brilliant comedy film that starred Peter O'Toole), original Broadway cast.
- Rooster in Annie (1982), the John Huston directed film wth Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, and Ann Reinking.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus, original Broadway production...not a musical, per se, but impressive nonetheless...and he was in the cast opposite Ian "Gandalf" McKellen as Sallieri, who won the Tony for Best Actor in a Play for it.
Barry Bostwick (Brad Majors) originated the role of Danny Zuko in the original Broadway production of Grease. He later won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for a show called The Robber Bridegroom (a show rarely, if ever, done). He later did a rather huge flop of a musical on Broadway in the 1990s, Nick & Nora, based on the husband and wife detective duo, Nick and Nora Charles created in the novel The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, and later played by William Powell and Myrna Loy in a series of successful films in the late 1930s and the 1940s. A disaster. All this to say, Barry has some chops as a singer.
The movie cuts out two songs...
- "Once In A While" which Brad sings after his liaison with Frank, as he's feeling guilty. Recorded and filmed, but slowed the pace of the movie, which already has some pacing issues.
- "Super Heroes", which you hear the very end of at the end of the film as the Criminologist intones "And crawling on the planet's face/ Some insects called the human race/ Lost in time and lost in space/ And meaning" . Recorded and filmed, but cut because it was an even more depressive ending with the song in the film.
Movie References in "Science Fiction / Double Feature"
Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
And Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear - Flash Gordon (1936) (the 80s one is great)
Claude Rains was the invisible man - The Invisible Man (1933)
Then something went wrong for Fay Wray and King Kong - King Kong (1933)
Then at a deadly pace it came from outer space - It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Dr X will build a creature - Doctor X (1932)
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet - Forbidden Planet (1956) (leslie Neilsen)
I knew Leo G. Carroll [...] when Tarantula took to the hills - Tarantula (1955)
When I saw Jeanette Scott fight a Triffid - The Day of the Triffids (1962)
Dana Andrews said prunes, gave him the runes - Night of the Demon (1957)
But when worlds collide, said George Pal to his bride - When Worlds Collide (1951)
"Claude Rains was the invisible man" .. where, I don't see him
Frank 'n Furter makes a reference to Dr. Scott being "Dr. Von-Scott". The implication that he snuck out of 1940's Germany before he faced the Nazi war crime trials.
It's probably more that like in common with the Soviet Union, the US offered amnesty to Nazi scientists (most famously Werner von Braun, the V2 project leader), in exchange for their research and knowledge. It is what rapidly accelerated the "space race". In hindsight, it's rather amusing that it could be argued that the Nazis got to into space first (with Soviet money) and to the moon first (with US money), despite being defeated in 1945.
The US also did the same thing with Japanese scientists (and murderers) from Unit 9420, for all their knowledge and research on the use and effects of biological weapons.
When the stage show was running in New Zealand they had the current Prime Minister playing the part of The Narrator - wearing fish net stockings and garter belt.
The city of Hamilton has a bronze statue Of Riff Raff in the alien costume .
A later NZ National tour I worked on had Richard O’Brian as the narrator. When he first stepped on stage, with his big book, the audience would just scream, and after 5 minutes Richard would have to tell them to “shut the f..k up” so he could deliver his first line… The denim tux jacket he wore was later auctioned for charity, along with a guitar. The giant show poster from the front of the theatre is signed by the cast and still hangs backstage in the Issac Theatre Royal in Christchurch.
"That came out of nowhere..."
Frank just casually resuming Make You A Man after savagely 😵 Eddie with a pickaxe 😅
Tim Curry's performance is so epic as Frankenfurter. He was a wild and untamed thing. It's sad about his health, but he was able to participate (post-stroke 🤕) as the criminologist in the televised stage version done a few years back (if you can find it, a compare/contrast on the vocal choices would be amazing 🥰)
I have seen a live version on the television, perhaps that was it.
One of aspect of the fan participation of the show is that it was most often shown in art houses that did not normally get much in the way of crowds.
The money the theater made from the packed weekend showings of Rocky Horror, especially year after year, meant that they could keep the doors open longer showing art movies.
Cheers.
My favorite audience participation line - when frankie pulls the tablecloth to reveal what they've been eating, the crowd yells "Not meatloaf again!!!" 😂😂😂
"In just seven days I will make you a man" was the slogan in the Charles Atlas body building ads that were in every comic book and newspaper
Oh great. "Let's Do the Time Warp Again" is stuck in my head. Again.
It left? It, along with "Manomona" are always there, waiting to pounce at any time.
Mahna Mahna
@@treetopjones737Thanx! I never know how to spell that. Probably because I saw its debut on TV and couldn't spell yet. 😂
Lets not forget "The Song that Doesn't end" and if you have ever been to Disneyland/World "Its a Small World"
@@kelaEQ2 You people are evil.
According to Meatloaf’s autobiography, Richard O’Brien made “Rocky Horror” at a time when he was questioning his sexuality and the way he presented himself. It was his way of trying to work things out.
you have to get the list of things to say during the movie. The pauses in dialogue were on purpose so the audience could participate. When first released you would get handed a booklet of phrases to yell out. you also had to bring things to the movie, squirt guns to simulate the rain, newspapers to cover your head in the rain, toilet paper for Dr Scott, toast to throw for happy toast, rice for the wedding scene and so on. Most theaters I saw it in, had a cast of people dressed the same as the characters and acting out the movie under the screen as it played. people would get in the aisles to do the dances, it was a blast, a lot of drugs(mostly weed) and alcohol in most theaters also. It was a whole experience in the right theater. To this day, I cant watch it without saying some of the lines hahaha
Love her first reaction to Tim Curry as Frankenfurter. It's obvious that she instantly appreciated the awesomeness that is Tim Curry.
Tim Curry is simply fantastic. His way of singing each line draws you in and has you wanting to complete the line with him. Mesmerizing
Tim Curry is fantastic in this. From the voice to the expressions, he's perfect. Makes me wish I could've seen him in the play before it became a movie.
So so deliciously over the top!!!!
Tiny note: The "Congratulations!" out of nowhere you heard at the wedding is the small person photographer with the glasses. He's in front of Brad and Ralph (the groom) before stepping off screen.
“ The whole thing seems like it may be a bit quirky” is the most accurate pre movie review ever. 😂😂
This is the best awful movie ever made I saw this about 300 times back in the 80’s when we went every weekend to a midnight show. At 61 I could still get the stuff together for a movie experience (newspaper, toast, water gun etc) and do the Time Warp. Dammit Janet, I love you.
I never actually heard what Janet said because whenever she speaks the audience Screamed SLUT. When Brad was speaking people yelled A$$ hole or Nerd. The GOAT movie when drinking with friends late at night 😂
When I’m out, in my wheelchair, and my carer puts the brakes on, and I want to move, I always…every single time, say “my veels, I can’t move my veels! 😀 and he, who’s standing a short distance away, knowing I’m wanting to move, sarcastically says “ my feet, I can’t move my feet”. 😂 it always makes us laugh! 🤣 And, of course, when I say, dammit, I have to say Janet!
Oh you absolute legend 💜
I worked at a theater in the late 70's, early 80's that ran this every weekend night at midnight for years. Before each showing as a "get in your seats" we showed the video of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"
You haven't really seen this movie until you see it with audience participation from an audience that knows the lines well. The movie was so bad when it was released that people started yelling at the screen ... and somehow it caught on to yell certain lines at the screen and became great fun. That's what made it a cult classic. The soundtrack is also delightful. It was a musical play before it was a movie.
The movie wasn't bad. It's reception was bad. But the people who enjoyed it began to participate as a way to be part of it . I have been watching it since just after it came out stating in movie theaters. No it's just at home in DVD. Believe me none of us going thought it was bad
@@craigplatel813 Interesting take. No right or wrong and you are certainly entitled to your opinion. I'll stick with saying the movie was quite bad apart from the audience participation. The initial reception of the movie was a reflection of just how bad it was. The audience participation would have never been birthed had it not been for the movie being as bad as it was on its own.😀
First time I went to see it in Chicago many, many years back, I was taunted as a virgin while in line, as this was all part of the fun. It was a great experience! So much fun back then. Couldn't get away with any of that these days. 😢
I have seen it once with an audience, about a dozen times on video, and listened to the album over 100 times. Not once did I think it was bad.
harmonic analysis of Janis Joplin.
Been apart of the local shadow cast for over 20 years now! Love this movie! It gives all us social rejects something to collaborate over 😊
"You don't want to make a love song creepy and weird."
Daniel Johnston: 👁👄👁
This movie was all about being an interactive experience, that was why people went... people would have props like squirt guns (for when it was raining), toilet paper, toast to throw for the toast scene, during the dinner, people would yell, what's for dinner? Meatloaf! What's for desert? Janet! and when Brad went to his blue room and Janet went to her pink room people would yell, respectively, "Blue is for boys".... and "pink is for girls" ... and when the guy, I guess you'd call him the narrator, appeared everyone would yell "boooooooring [boring]" followed by "where's your neck?" ... and there were several "dammit Janet''s thrown in throughout the movie as well some "oh Brad!"s... people actually got up in the aisles and did the timewarp and many would dress like some of the characters, it was an experience going to see this!
do you remember the audience line for after the narrator described the dark clouds as pendulous? ~grin~
It still is shown in some theaters with the audience participation 😸 I've even seen it done with a full shadow-cast performing in the theater below the movie
Usually, on stage, Eddie and Dr. Scott are played by the same actor, so Meat Loaf should have had a bigger part, but for the movie they decided to put the original West End production Criminologist in as Dr. Scott. Meat Loaf played both parts both at the Roxy in LA and on Broadway. Everyone else, aside from Brad, Janet, and the Criminologist, were from the original West End production. Though, Barry Bostwick has some real musical theater credentials as the original Broadway Danny Zuko from Grease (as well as getting a Tony a few years after this).
They used to show this every Halloween. The audience would throw rice during the wedding scene. They would bring lighters to light at the appropriate time. I remember a documentary when it first came out and they were talking to an insanely major fan. At that point he had seen it in theatres over 100 times. The song Timewarp became a staple in every dance.
Oh, they still do.
I think this is my favorite vocal coach reacts / rocky horror reaction 😂
Saw it at a midnight showing for the first time when I was 16, came out to my friends *during* the movie, and went pretty much every midnight showing from then on - I was still in high school so had to sneak out in my rocky horror outfits ☠️ blame my fishnets and hot pants on frank n furter .
I have lost track of how many times I have seen this movie. I have seen it in theatres and privately. Sadly I haven't seen it for years not since the friend who introduced me to it died. Thanks for reminding me how much I love this experience.
There isn’t anything else like this, it’s a cult masterpiece, and it’s definitely not for taking seriously. It does need watching more than once, it’s been watched and listened to many times through my life 😅
I have seen that movie a thousand times and just realized that the priest is Tim Curry as well 😀
And the usher who looks straight out of "American Gothic" is Riffraff
And the bride is Hilary Farr from the TV show "Love it or List it".
Patricia Quinn and Little Nell are the two women who look like fugitives from _Little House on the Prairie._
As many others have mentioned… there was a theatre in our community where this was shown every Saturday night at midnight.. we often went (dressed up in various costumes.. and most often ‘slightly impaired’)!! Used to be able to sing every song.. quote most of the words too)!! I’m mid-70s now so most of that has left my brain - but I remember some of it, especially the songs!! Great reaction - thank-you for sharing!
I bet you remember some of the off-script audience lines as well!
@@One_Proud_Papa - Like at 6:25
"Where's your neck?" 😁
Where you went to see it, did they charge double the regular midnight movie rate to pay for the extra clean up? Where we watched it, the price went from $1.00 to $2.00 for TRHPS. Still worth it. 😜
@BigDave423 Yes, and yes. Worth it. Where I went they even showed music videos before the movie: "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" and "Paradise Garage" by Tim.
@@BigDave423 "It's in his other suit at the cleaners!"
You skipped the LAST TWO songs!!!! I have seen this movie more times than I can count. I have performed in a shadowcast more than I can remember. Yes, it is a terrible movie with little to no plot, *BUT* it has a GREAT soundtrack and *TIM CURRY* It does my heart good to see all the young folk come out to a showing and be thrilled by this ridiculous piece of trash that I LOVE so much! *VIVA LA ROCKY HORROR!!!!*
Good point. "Superheroes" is short, but I think it might be the best vocal performance by Brad and Janet.
If you don't skip some (most?) of the songs, you risk demonitization by RUclips. From what I hear.
@@i.marchand4655 yeah, some stuff got claimed when I did a video on this some years ago, but that was somehow due to the visual part as well. I challenged the claim and it worked afterwards...
The US cut of the film is different from the UK cut, and in particular leaves out Superheroes (the studio felt it was too depressing for a US audience). She was watching the US cut.
Personally I feel leaving out this song is quite criminal.
I don’t understand why Superheroes was cut from some versions ☹️
4:30 it is not so much about getting proposed to in a graveyard. Old small churches used to have their graveyard as part of their frontyard and backyard, which is why it is called graveyard. It's the churchyard where the graves are, as opposed to a cemetary, which is a municipal area cordoned off for nothing other than graves (and maybe one little chappel). The proposal was done in front of the church..the camera was just positioned in a way that the graveyard was shown.
21:03 I always understood it as him not wanting to share the spotlight Eddie comes in like a wrecking ball into the labratory and has a full musical number with his henchmen who love him so the only way to get back control is either kick him out splitting up the party on who decides to leave or killing him so everyone stays and pays attention to him as the main character
Did you notice he came out of a freezer with a head wound, I'm pretty sure he was trying to kill him already. That's just what I always thought.
I shivered with anticip-ation as I watched your review 😉
What a cultural phenomenon. I'm not always glad I'm old (most of the time I am, actually), but I am thrilled I saw this in a theatre in New York City at midnight. With most of the audience in costume, carrying props, and shouting all the "ad-libs" the show calls for. And thrilled I directed the stage version - which is slightly different and still a hoot - on more than one occasion. Thank you for this fantastic reaction. You totally get it. Now watch it again! :)
Riff Raff's trident/raygun at the end is a callback to his pitchfork at the very beginning, where he and Magenta did a tableau mimicking the Grant Wood painting "American Gothic"
It’s been decades and I’m still so jealous of Magenta’s makeup
Omg I never noticed the priest was Tim Curry as well! Not just him but Richard, Patricia and Nell are the others are the church, it makes sense because of the budget, but I can't believe this is the only time I'm even noticing this.
Tim Curry, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, and Little Nell are also in the wedding, but as other characters from their main roles.
Charles Gray, when asked to do the role of the Criminologist, apparently grinned and said, "Why not?"
Every Saturday night for years they used to play this movie and the audience kept coming back and started to dress up in the costumes and sing along. It became its own experience. For years.
If you're confused about the trident, look at the painting "American Gothic."
It's not a trident, it's a pitchfork.
This was a love letter to sci fi b movies back in the day. The ending was King Kong- a hulking brute climbing a tower, carrying the limp form of his only love, shaking a fist at the people trying to shoot him down. (If you listen to the lyrics, the Fay Wray they mentioned was the lead actress in King Kong.)
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Richard O'brien, the guy who made it and played Riff Raff, is from NZ and used to be a teacher here. My Dad tells me whenever anything Rocky Horror is mentioned how he used to flat with people who had him as a teacher.
Every one but Rocky did their own vocals. Rocky was played by Peter Hinwood but his singing voice was dubbed in post-production by Australian singer Trevor White
Go to a real midnight showing, with audience participation, where they know the callbacks. I don’t know if any theaters do this anymore, or if anyone is left that knows how to do it. But if it does exist, you MUST have the experience. It was one of the few things we freaks and geeks could do like that with absolutely zero judgement.
Teens today are missing SO much having your shit wound so tight you’ll dump coal in a week.
I took a screen shot of that amazing Gucci Guilty advert. Now my desktop picture!
27:42 "My socks! I can't move my socks!" That just flooded my memory like a long lost relative! Lol
interesting little fact, the film was shot at Oakley Manor which used to be the Hammer House of Horror.
the manor house was in a very delapidated state and very cold as filming was from October to December and Susan Sarandon caught pneumonia
I have stayed there, they have a collection of lanterns in the entrance hall and there is a grandfather clock in the same place as the movie, no skeleton though.
The churchyard is just down the road but the building has be changed.
At the 40th anniversary event for this movie, Tim Curry showed up in normal clothes, and his famous quote from that event was he was the only one in the room that didn't look like himself
Awesome quote!! LOL!
Speaking of normal clothes, I didn't realize until this time that Tim Curry is the priest at the beginning. Are other members of the castle cast the crowd?
@@JeshuaSquirrelalmost all of the castle dwellers are there. I don’t know how much of it is supposed to be in a wizard of oz style “and you were there, and you were there” versus just reusing the cast they had to save budget.
@@tomleonard830- Or a bit of an in-joke. They certainly didn't expect it to become a cult movie.
@@julietfischer5056 I think it’s probably just a relic of its stage roots where it is comm to reuse actors (particularly the chorus).
I saw TRHPS first on VHS. I didn't particularly like it. Then I saw it again at a midnight movie showing with an audience of Rocky Horror veterans. The audience participation element improved the movie 1000%. In fact, I can't see Charles Gray in an old movie without wanting to yell "Where's your f--king neck?!".
It's difficult to get the full feeling for Rocky Horror without an audience full of people who know what to yell at the screen at the correct times.
Yep. Back in the day in Chicago, we went to every midnight Saturday showing. I couldn't even guess at how many times I've seen this movie, in a full movie theater, in full costume, with everyone knowing the routines. Then to the punk bars, till closing time at 5am. Good times.
My husband's name is Denton and when we started dating I said he had to purpose to this song.
13 years later how we find out if people are going to be friends with us is by introducing him as Denton as in rocky and if they get it then friends if they don't we then say as in texas.
This is my favorite movie and has been since I was 6 years old. I love it so much!
I am a HUGE RHPS fan! Have been since I was 12 in the early 90’s! I absolutely loved watching you experience it for the first time. You picked up on so many things that I think a lot of people miss. If you ever get the chance to watch a live-action version in a theater, please do! The call outs are HILARIOUS, and make fun of the movie the whole way through. Thank you for reviewing this film!