It's an insane, sick, twisted, occasionally sadistic, intelligent movie. People need to stop comparing it to Rocky and just enjoy it for the gem that it is.
Snow TheLeopard I do, 'cuz at the end of RHPS Brad and Janet sing about how they could never go back to living normal lives after having all those freaky sexcapades with alien mad scientists. So it makes sense that several years later, their marriage is blasé, anything would be by comparison!
I tear up at the end of both rocky and shocky. "The sun never sets on those who ride into it." If Brad and Janet can learn to forget the terrible things that occured to them, so can we. stay positive. What an amazing story about just two ordinary kids..
just listening to this song for the first time in many years. I always felt the meaning of "it" was a bit of a mystery and left to the listener's interpretation. I've concluded the "it" is to live life, don't let life get you down and make the most of it, "no matter how the wind is blowing." The sun never sets on those who ride into it.....life is the journey, not the destination. Thanks Richard.
I don't normally like "bad guy wins" movies but I have a chuckle at the sheer audacity of the fact that the last shot of the villains is them having a dance party as money literally rains from the sky around them. Very relevant to real life too.
@@AuroDHikoshi Oh, the implication is supposed to be that they inadvertently locked themselves in? I've sort of wondered about that given the framing of the shot, and as it'd be a fitting fate for them on multiple levels, but do you have a source for that?
I don't think there is anything but then everyone who followed FF is in there and the final shot from above looks like even he's in that place with everyone who followed him and he's technically done it himself. He's in his own looney bin.
Apparently Charles Grey preferred this film to The Rocky Horror Picture Show he said he had a longer part same was with Patricia Quinn she says it on the Blu-ray commentary. I think Ruby Wax is brilliant in this film.
Yeah no joke. I mean for real, people with the fear of enclosed spaces may hate this movie, because of that fact that Brad and Janet are trapped in a reality TV show.
@@astarteswillum5259 Yeah, originally it was going to be called "The Brad and Janet Show" and was supposed to be shot on location in Texas, with the plot taking place all over Denton, but because le SAG strike they were barred from location shoots. They could only use soundstages/studios as a result so they rewrote it into "Shock Treatment" to accommodate.
It is a sequel because they mentioned the first one and in the song "look what i did to my id" the farmer picture is on the wall from the church in rocky.
It may not be perfect with a confusing plot but you forgive it because you're just entranced of how mad, but secretly smart it is. Ahead of it's time. I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!♥️
for me, this song is the ultimate of getting the point across. People are willing to do anything for the love of the glimmer of being famous. Or if everyone does it, then your gonna go too. But the characters that we actually cared about (and a band) are now at the point of, YOU CAN HAVE IT! don't want it, they got a life to live. Now everyone else... they got a show to be enslaved on. The point, in long... Live life don't let TV live for you, or control you.
I love this so much, it makes me laugh and love "the sun never sets on those who ride into it" - KEEP GOING EVERYONE!!! I love when you meet someone who LOVES Rocky Horror ,you mention shock treatment and get "WHAT?" ;0
In sum, this film foreshadowed The Stepford Wives, The Truman Show, Pleasantville, QVC & The Home Shopping Network, and all Reality TV shows. But of course, it was also itself foreshadowed a bit by Network and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
It's actually, as many call it, an 'equal'. By that, I mean it's a "What-If" story that shows what would've happened to Brad & Janet if they never went to Frank-N-Furter's lab.
Evan Tsilimidos nope, you can't compare Brand and Janet from Shock Treatment to those from Rocky, they're pretty different. I'd say that that's what happened with them after they met Frank-n-Furter
@@nothing-but-milk9176 no really their problem are mostly because both of them have been living the sad boring life of the originals sad boring Brad and Janet for so long, probably the Brad and Janet from Rocky horror had a better life together thanks to their ecounter with Frank, this Brad and this Janet needed the show to solve his relationship
This movie is so much more relevant now than it was when it first came out. I can't see how some of you don't like it. It perfectly shows how tv is; all these staged "reality" shows. Maybe you just don't get it? Oh well, I love it anyway. I actually like it more than Rocky Horror. The last fourth of Rocky Horror just doesn't captivate me ad much ad the rest of the movie. Meanwhile, Shock Treatment keeps me satisfied the whole way through. Of course, this is just my opinion. But whatever. "Some
It seems a lot of people don't understand what a "double entendre" is. The song could be about anything. Whatever the true message is, the ambiguous lyrics invoke people's dirty minds _on purpose._ That's literally the joke.
So a fast-food King, buys a the television station and sells Mental Health to the people.. and the whole town end up in the nut Ward.. now you know what happened to the country..
for me, this song is the ultimate of getting the point across. People are willing to do anything for the love of the glimmer of being famous. Or if everyone does it, then your gonna go too. But the characters that we actually cared about (and a band) are now at the point of, YOU CAN HAVE IT! don't want it, they got a life to live. Now everyone else... they got a show to be enslaved on. The point, in long... Live life dont let TV live for you, or controll you.
Farley did it to himself. His obsession with Brad and Janet drove him made. He created a hell for himself and trapped as many people as he could with him.
This film was prematurely produced because of the writers strike in the USA and sad to say it was one big slam on America. How did they think this would be successful to just go ahead and make it. It comes off juvenile.
@DrTetskaMckinley I thought they actually won. They did hotwire the car Jan was supposed to get, and ended up somehow getting the entire town committed. I would say that equates to a HAPPY ending to a movie in the Rocky Horror saga.
Actually, Richard O'Brien himself declred his disatisfaction for this film, calling it "the worst thing he ever wrote." I absolutely adore Richard O'Brien, and while I wouldn't call it the worst thing, I don't believe this was his finest work.
Ive heard some say its about Sex, and that may have the Intention. But personally I sort of interpret it as a 'Keep moving forward even if alot of things suck' sort of theme.
At the end when Charles Gray looks like he is kisses Ruby Wax. Is it ment to be he is kissing her on the lips? or they are just hugging? I never seen Charles Gray kissing any women in his movies...
Some people do it alone.... in a dark room.... with tears streaming down their face.... hopeing no one catching them..... wait, we're talking about eating junk food right? XD
I love how at 2:00 on, it's really clear the techs overdid the smoke effect, but this movie is on such a low budget that they obviously couldn't afford re-shoots.
This movie was absolutly dreadful, but I can't help but love the music in it. As was said before it is damn catchy. Personally though i believe this song is about sex if you think about it.
I thought the time warp watching for the frist time a few weeks ago was the craziest thing I ever seen. And after seeing this the time warp is still the craziest thing I ever seen. And that's why I love it.
@pixietwitch , good point and that's so creepy. :( Who knew after making this movie, way in the future reality television was gonna take over television in general?
+Jonah Falcon Actually if Curry would have returned, he would have played Frank again, but Curry's lack of interest in reprising the role, and the screen writer's strike among other things forced O'Brien to make huge rewrites.
i totally agree that its great...but it is no where near as good as Rocky Horror and as itself its ehhhh ok. I love the music though and wish it was on itunes
They say on this dvd in the special features that Denton was in the midwest and that it actually was gonna be filmed in america but then something happened so they went to the UK and filmed it in a studio set
1980 actors strike looming meant no film could start production that would not be completed by a specified date. This necessitated a revision of the film, rewrite of the script and it was decided to set the whole film in a television studio, designed by Brian Thompson.
It's an insane, sick, twisted, occasionally sadistic, intelligent movie. People need to stop comparing it to Rocky and just enjoy it for the gem that it is.
It's one of my favorites of all time!
Snow TheLeopard I do, 'cuz at the end of RHPS Brad and Janet sing about how they could never go back to living normal lives after having all those freaky sexcapades with alien mad scientists. So it makes sense that several years later, their marriage is blasé, anything would be by comparison!
THEY HAND THE TOWN FUCKING STRAIGHT JACKETS AND THEY WERE FUCKING HAPPY ABOUT IT! AND EVERYONE DRIVES AWAY NOT GIVING A FUCK!
+Entertainment FIlms WHO THE FUCK DOES THAT?!
+Entertainment FIlms They bought into it...
I tear up at the end of both rocky and shocky. "The sun never sets on those who ride into it." If Brad and Janet can learn to forget the terrible things that occured to them, so can we. stay positive. What an amazing story about just two ordinary kids..
Shock Treatment absolutely needs to be on the stage.
You missed it. It was. :-D
@@BedroomScenesMovie it should come back
"the sun never sets on those who ride into it"
Best.Line.Ever.
Anyone who gets let from there role i say "The sun never sets on thoses who ride into it" YOU JUST GOT TO KEEP GOING, out the door
just listening to this song for the first time in many years. I always felt the meaning of "it" was a bit of a mystery and left to the listener's interpretation. I've concluded the "it" is to live life, don't let life get you down and make the most of it, "no matter how the wind is blowing." The sun never sets on those who ride into it.....life is the journey, not the destination. Thanks Richard.
I don't normally like "bad guy wins" movies but I have a chuckle at the sheer audacity of the fact that the last shot of the villains is them having a dance party as money literally rains from the sky around them. Very relevant to real life too.
They've locked themselves in while the people they accuse escape.
@@AuroDHikoshi Oh, the implication is supposed to be that they inadvertently locked themselves in? I've sort of wondered about that given the framing of the shot, and as it'd be a fitting fate for them on multiple levels, but do you have a source for that?
I don't think there is anything but then everyone who followed FF is in there and the final shot from above looks like even he's in that place with everyone who followed him and he's technically done it himself. He's in his own looney bin.
Brad and Janet finally get the happy ending the deserve. A wonderful closing to the misadventures of Brad and Janet.
Them having to live with the trauma of this experience isnt really a happy ending.
@@hysteria1113 I think RHPS was more traumatic and this movie is more about them realising they can love each other and be a married couple
Apparently Charles Grey preferred this film to The Rocky Horror Picture Show he said he had a longer part same was with Patricia Quinn she says it on the Blu-ray commentary. I think Ruby Wax is brilliant in this film.
The scariest thing about this is the fact that an entire town is a TV studio
Yeah no joke. I mean for real, people with the fear of enclosed spaces may hate this movie, because of that fact that Brad and Janet are trapped in a reality TV show.
Wasn't the reason for this because a strike was going on?
@@astarteswillum5259 Yeah, originally it was going to be called "The Brad and Janet Show" and was supposed to be shot on location in Texas, with the plot taking place all over Denton, but because le SAG strike they were barred from location shoots. They could only use soundstages/studios as a result so they rewrote it into "Shock Treatment" to accommodate.
I like to think they drive off to Frank's castle.
Keep on dreaming that dream.
Charles Mars that wouldn't even make sense in this movie. The castle isn't there anymore. Also this is taking place after the first movie.
Patrick Robinsob But this is not a 2nd movie. Its an equal.
hopefully not to use the phone
It is a sequel because they mentioned the first one and in the song "look what i did to my id" the farmer picture is on the wall from the church in rocky.
It may not be perfect with a confusing plot but you forgive it because you're just entranced of how mad, but secretly smart it is. Ahead of it's time. I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!♥️
the Denton reprise terrified me the first time I saw it, but now I can appreciate it's hilarity :D
It's terrifying again, BTW
For all the madcap this film is, it still has some of the most believable lead characters of any film I've ever seen.
for me, this song is the ultimate of getting the point across.
People are willing to do anything for the love of the glimmer of being famous.
Or if everyone does it, then your gonna go too.
But the characters that we actually cared about (and a band) are now at the point of, YOU CAN HAVE IT! don't want it, they got a life to live.
Now everyone else... they got a show to be enslaved on.
The point, in long...
Live life don't let TV live for you, or control you.
Denton Denton you've got ... (clap!) no pretension...!
That won't leave my brain.
You are fucking awesome Jonah!
@@YungMonie007 Yes.
I FUCKING LOVE THIS FILM
i luv how the judge is useless and betty can pick locks and start cars in no time! thats so awesome!
"The sun never sets on those who ride into it." Best closing line ever.
Regardless whether you like this movie or not, you have to admit Richard O'Brien is a brilliant song writer.
I never realized how messed up this film is until now... I love it!
I love this so much, it makes me laugh and love "the sun never sets on those who ride into it" - KEEP GOING EVERYONE!!! I love when you meet someone who LOVES Rocky Horror ,you mention shock
treatment and get "WHAT?" ;0
Love how Charles Grey stumbles over the chair at 1.04.
+The Bloody Mary Show The song is true "Just gotta keep going"
I think it's cute how Ruby Wax reaches out to keep him from falling when he stumbles.
The Bloody Mary Show 1:04
It's Ruby who trips.
In sum, this film foreshadowed The Stepford Wives, The Truman Show, Pleasantville, QVC & The Home Shopping Network, and all Reality TV shows. But of course, it was also itself foreshadowed a bit by Network and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
you missed the Cult of Trump as well
The Stepford Wives book and original 1970s movie predates this film.
My friends watched this movie with me, and they started dying when they said "Some people do it or employment" XD
It's actually, as many call it, an 'equal'. By that, I mean it's a "What-If" story that shows what would've happened to Brad & Janet if they never went to Frank-N-Furter's lab.
Evan Tsilimidos nope, you can't compare Brand and Janet from Shock Treatment to those from Rocky, they're pretty different. I'd say that that's what happened with them after they met Frank-n-Furter
@@nothing-but-milk9176 you know that's a famous painting called American Gothic which Rocky Horror recreated right?
Well they never bring up
The events from the previous film
so in other words, it's an alternate universe
@@nothing-but-milk9176 no really their problem are mostly because both of them have been living the sad boring life of the originals sad boring Brad and Janet for so long, probably the Brad and Janet from Rocky horror had a better life together thanks to their ecounter with Frank, this Brad and this Janet needed the show to solve his relationship
This movie is so much more relevant now than it was when it first came out. I can't see how some of you don't like it. It perfectly shows how tv is; all these staged "reality" shows. Maybe you just don't get it? Oh well, I love it anyway. I actually like it more than Rocky Horror. The last fourth of Rocky Horror just doesn't captivate me ad much ad the rest of the movie. Meanwhile, Shock Treatment keeps me satisfied the whole way through. Of course, this is just my opinion. But whatever. "Some
richard o'brien you're a fucking genius, really a genius, my respects
It seems a lot of people don't understand what a "double entendre" is. The song could be about anything. Whatever the true message is, the ambiguous lyrics invoke people's dirty minds _on purpose._ That's literally the joke.
such an under rated movie, i love it
So a fast-food King, buys a the television station and sells Mental Health to the people.. and the whole town end up in the nut Ward.. now you know what happened to the country..
for me, this song is the ultimate of getting the point across.
People are willing to do anything for the love of the glimmer of being famous.
Or if everyone does it, then your gonna go too.
But the characters that we actually cared about (and a band) are now at the point of, YOU CAN HAVE IT! don't want it, they got a life to live.
Now everyone else... they got a show to be enslaved on.
The point, in long...
Live life dont let TV live for you, or controll you.
@mommak10 Unknowingly ahead of it's time! When this was made the closest thing we had to "reality tv" was The Price is Right, and other game shows.
Hmmmm.....This song is trying to tell me something, I just don't know what....
To keep moving forward
I was at the screening of this film and the entire theater Booed at the end
The real MVP is Betty's hairpins.
possibly the best exit in musical history
Farley did it to himself. His obsession with Brad and Janet drove him made. He created a hell for himself and trapped as many people as he could with him.
I'm 15 years old and I know this song off by heart. Am I normal?
yes you were. by now you're 25. I'm 18 and I like it
This film was prematurely produced because of the writers strike in the USA and sad to say it was one big slam on America. How did they think this would be successful to just go ahead and make it. It comes off juvenile.
@DrTetskaMckinley I thought they actually won. They did hotwire the car Jan was supposed to get, and ended up somehow getting the entire town committed. I would say that equates to a HAPPY ending to a movie in the Rocky Horror saga.
I love the unison between Cliff and Jessica!
Actually, Richard O'Brien himself declred his disatisfaction for this film, calling it "the worst thing he ever wrote."
I absolutely adore Richard O'Brien, and while I wouldn't call it the worst thing, I don't believe this was his finest work.
curseofverse1287 Patricia Quinn has said herself that this film was meant to be The Truman Show originally. But that film stole their idea.
Ive heard some say its about Sex, and that may have the Intention.
But personally I sort of interpret it as a 'Keep moving forward even if alot of things suck' sort of theme.
I think it's one between couples but also keep going forward in anything.
This is the first song I had ever heard from this movie. Loved it!!!!! Thank you Richard for creating!!! HOOPLAH!
At the end when Charles Gray looks like he is kisses Ruby Wax. Is it ment to be he is kissing her on the lips? or they are just hugging? I never seen Charles Gray kissing any women in his movies...
AngelHeart Ruby Wax is in this ??
Possibly, but Charles Gray was indeed gay.
8 people didn't want to do it Anyhow, Anyhow..🤣🤣
It's hard to imagine that this film is 30 years old >_
40 now
@@PrinsTan oh shit 😶😶😶
@@Rikairiify see you again in 10 years for your decade reminder
We just gotta keep going!!
its sort of like a breakout song, like you cant stop the beat, basically destroying social norm and doing what you want
I like the abused, her husband, her friend, the smart man and the teens are the only ones not brainwashed.. 😂
" Some people do it for enjoyment"
" Some people do it for employment"
@ShadowThePixie
Ahhhh...Classy. Thanks for helping me out there. That was actually the thing in this movement that was making the least sense to me.
Ruby sure did pick that lock & hotwired that car quickly didn't she?! 🤣🤣🤣 how does she do it?
The same way she picks a jail cell's lock.
What about the so Grease alike ending?
I've also realized, that with Kentaro Miura's death, this is basically the ending of Berserk, and I'm weirdly okay with that.
Elaborate
Some people do it alone.... in a dark room.... with tears streaming down their face.... hopeing no one catching them.....
wait, we're talking about eating junk food right? XD
I love how at 2:00 on, it's really clear the techs overdid the smoke effect, but this movie is on such a low budget that they obviously couldn't afford re-shoots.
@VainLalaine I was (and currently am) 12 :P
The metaphor of this song and the whole movie is surely that society is a giant mental institution
Love the T-Bird at the end.
this shouldn't be downvoted but 9 people did it Anyhow, Anyhow
I'm pretty sure it's not actually a prequel, it's something of a sequel.
this is my favorite song. i just hate the movie, but i probably need to watch it again like i had to with RHPS
This movie was WAY AHEAD of its time.
@Justwosweet awww sorry :( i love this movie too :)
Ladies and gentlemen, the Heidi Fleiss theme song! :)
@DrTetskaMckinley that would have been an awesome ending!
@ShadowThePixie haha ^^
@AlanHollow not to mention a good voice actor. i had no idea he did the voice of Lawrence Fletcher on Phineas and Ferb. ^^ hes so funny
Do.... what?
It.
I want to be in this production ♥
The sun never sets, on those that ride into it!
On those who ride into it.
I love when he trips lmao! ST is so cool!
Just thought I'd add this: everybody points out that it's about sex, but I think most of those descriptors could also work for making music!
+John Collins It could be put to just about anything...
Such an amazing movie words can't describe it
This movie was absolutly dreadful, but I can't help but love the music in it. As was said before it is damn catchy. Personally though i believe this song is about sex if you think about it.
All ST's music is so damn catchy, I can't help but move around like an idiot while listening to this
I thought the time warp watching for the frist time a few weeks ago was the craziest thing I ever seen. And after seeing this the time warp is still the craziest thing I ever seen. And that's why I love it.
@pixietwitch , good point and that's so creepy. :( Who knew after making this movie, way in the future reality television was gonna take over television in general?
The last shot of the film is, of course, a panty shot.
what is this song about? What do Brad and Janet mean that people do? I know what the other two mean though
Wait a second, I thought Cosmo took the keys to the car! I need to see this movie again...
xXdarkwhitewolfXx He did, they hot wired the car
@@JackAicken I was going to say the same thing she hotwired it up lol hahaha
I never understood this movie as a prequel, it doesn't make any sense, I think it's better suited to be a sequel.
I really wish frank had been in this one :( can you imagine how fun him in a straight jacket would have been
+Hauntingthe5thcellar Tim Currey would have been Farley Flavors.
+Jonah Falcon Actually if Curry would have returned, he would have played Frank again, but Curry's lack of interest in reprising the role, and the screen writer's strike among other things forced O'Brien to make huge rewrites.
Franky Flavors
And, from what I read, also Brad... but he didn't think he could pull off an American accent
Uh, that didn't stop Tim Curry from playing Rooster in Annie the same year.
I'm sad that so many people hate this movie. :( I didn't like it at first either, but I gave it a chance and now I love it! :D
i totally agree that its great...but it is no where near as good as Rocky Horror and as itself its ehhhh ok. I love the music though and wish it was on itunes
idk y since it doesn't really make since to me but i love how all the town people are in the asylum at the end lmao
To me it looked like Charles tripped and she was trying to stop him from falling...
7 people forgot how to "do it anyhow."
@nextgentacos123 Since the filming was changed from location to studio, who knows but Richard.
Thats what I thought the first time I herd this song and watched the movie but some people say its about sex
Its sounds like eddie's theme...
chris d i don't hear it
chris d to me it sounds like when you forget your condom and she still wants it
@@jonathonmullins-kimbler3605 so it sounds like something you've never heard?
Basically singing that they did it, and that they are going to do anyhow, and they gotta keep going.
awful
They say on this dvd in the special features that Denton was in the midwest and that it actually was gonna be filmed in america but then something happened so they went to the UK and filmed it in a studio set
1980 actors strike looming meant no film could start production that would not be completed by a specified date. This necessitated a revision of the film, rewrite of the script and it was decided to set the whole film in a television studio, designed by Brian Thompson.
Whoa. Stop. Do what? :I ...............
I fucking love this song
That is all
And yet in a way, the bad guys won.
@nextgentacos123 That was the planned location for filming.
Two people aren't going to do it no how, no how