Special Guests: Sal Piro, Larry Viezel, Shawn Stutler, Scott Michaels, Jeffrey WeinstockWe would like... if we may... to discuss The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
The Rocky Horror Picture Show refuses to behave like a normal movie, and that’s exactly why it’s endured for nearly fifty years. What began as a scrappy stage musical by Richard O’Brien exploded into a midnight-movie phenomenon, complete with callbacks, costumes, rituals, and a fiercely devoted audience that treats the film less like a text and more like a living performance.
On this special Projection Booth episode, Mike digs into Rocky Horror’s strange alchemy—how Jim Sharman’s film adaptation transformed camp pastiche into a communal experience, how Tim Curry’s Frank-N-Furter rewired mainstream ideas of sexuality and performance, and how audience participation became inseparable from the movie itself. The discussion traces the film’s early box-office failure, its rescue by repertory theaters, and the way fans reshaped its meaning night after night through repetition, parody, and ritualized chaos.
Links:
Buy The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Blu-Ray
Buy The Rocky Horror Treasury by Sal Piro and Larry Viezel
Buy The Rocky Horror Picture Show Cultography by Jeffrey Weinstock
Buy Rocky Horror: From Concept to Cult by David Evans and Scott Michaels
Subscribe to the Home of Happiness YouTube Channel
Like We Love Sadie Corre and Rocky Horror on Facebook
Visit the official Rocky Horror fan site
Find more Rocky music at the The Musical World of Rocky Horror
Listen to our Shock Treatment episode
When in Los Angeles, visit Dearly Departed Tours... ask for Scott
Listen/Download Now:
Music:
"Time Warp" - Various artists
"You Can Be Who You Wanna Be" - Ryan Wilson
"Eddie" - Kimi and Ritz
"Beauty Queen" - Little Nell
"I Do The Rock" - Tim Curry
"Time Warp (Reprise)" - RHPS Soundtrack
Watch:
Rocky Horror Saved My Life - Chapter One from Shawn Stutler on Vimeo.
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