# Horrors!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 11, 1999, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330 "1999-12-11T19:13:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)
#### Post date: [December 12, 1999, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/1 "1999-12-12T06:54:00Z")
Richard O’Brien is writing a sequel to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. He’s the guy that was responsible for the original stinker that everybody loves.
Except for me and a few other people who’s sanity is questioned when we say, “Huh?”
Is this necessary? The last time I took a count, there were one too many movies of RHPS. Now this guy is going to compound the felony by writing another?
Are there no workhouses?
You can’t do the same shtick twice. Even I know that. Especially if there was no shtick to begin with.
O’Brien, you got lucky.
Don’t push it.
---
### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [December 11, 1999, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/2 "1999-12-11T19:13:00Z")
> [@](#):
>
> You can’t do the same shtick twice.
Take it from an expert. You can. Even thrice. I’ve made a good living rehashing the old Rabbit Season-Duck Season shtick over and over again.
O’Brien can do it too…and he already has! At least ten years ago! I think it was called “Shock Treatment”.
Never underestimate the one trick pony. There’s always an audience.
* * *
Elmer J. Fudd,
Millionaire.
I own a mansion and a yacht.
---
### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [December 11, 1999, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/3 "1999-12-11T19:51:00Z")
I understand that “Shock Treatment” was so bad that it even flopped on the midnight circuit and is currently mouldering away in a vault somewhere never to be beheld by human eyes again.
* * *
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
[The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm)
[Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm)
---
### Author:  [@speakeasy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/speakeasy)
#### Post date: [December 11, 1999, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/4 "1999-12-11T20:40:00Z")
Yeah, but Rocky Horror was great! I wuz rolling. How about Mike Meyers as Rocky II? Don’t look Marge, it’s not pretty.
---
### Author:  [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)
#### Post date: [December 11, 1999, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/5 "1999-12-11T20:45:00Z")
Mouldering in a vault? That’s just wishful thinking by movie critics. I saw it on TV a few months ago.
Elmer - did you know you’re a Chia head now?
[Elmer with hair](http://www.chia.com/cgi-bin/webc.exe/looneytunes.html%22)
---
### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [December 11, 1999, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/6 "1999-12-11T22:30:00Z")
Finally! My Christmas wish come true!
* * *
Elmer J. Fudd,
Millionaire.
I own a mansion and a yacht.
---
### Author:  [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)
#### Post date: [December 11, 1999, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/7 "1999-12-11T22:31:00Z")
He already made a sequel, the aforementioned _Shock Treatment_, which has only appealed to the most dedicated Transylvanians.
Despite having played Columbia for several years, I’m not as dedicated as I thought. _Shock Treatment_ sucks ass. However, I still have a cozy place in my heart for the original movie cast and Richard O’Brien (wonder if he’d reprise his role as Riff…) and if they could all be rounded up for the occasion, I would definitely spend money to see a third installment out of curiosity.
HOWEVER:
I seriously doubt that Laura “Little Nell” Campbell would have anything to do with it, which comes as a great disappointment to me. From what I understand, she wishes that she’d had nothing to do with RHPS at all.
The guy who played Rocky has been living in obscurity, running a small bookstore in London or something…doubt he’d have anything to do with it either.
Meatloaf would do it (hell, he did SpiceWorld with Richard O’Brien, he’d do anything.) Susan Sarandon and Tim Curry would probably do it if they could get big dollars out of it. I wonder if Barry Bostwick would take time out of his sitcom schedule for such a thing?
::ramble, ramble::
Anyway…I’d go. ::d&r::
* * *
“…all the prettiest girls live in Des Moines…”
–Jack Kerouac, _On the Road_
---
### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [December 12, 1999, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/8 "1999-12-12T00:07:00Z")
Just out of curiousity, Wally, why did you put this thread in the Pit? Why isn’t it in MPSIMS? I’m thinking of moving it.
Lynn
---
### Author:  [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)
#### Post date: [December 12, 1999, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/9 "1999-12-12T05:58:00Z")
Richard O’Brien has been making a sequel for years. IIRC, he even posted the script online. It’s never going to be a movie, though. Even the man himself has said it.
* * *
Cessandra
Killed a man with no hands. . .
---
### Author:  [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)
#### Post date: [December 12, 1999, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/10 "1999-12-12T07:00:00Z")
Lynn, my mistake. By all means move it.
---
### Author:  [@AuraSeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuraSeer)
#### Post date: [December 12, 1999, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/11 "1999-12-12T07:04:00Z")
I think this thread should stay in the Pit. That way, I won’t get in trouble when I say that Rocky Horror sucks ass.
---
### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [December 13, 1999, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/12 "1999-12-13T13:55:00Z")
You know, Auraseer, I’ve always liked and admired you…up til now.
Dissing RHPS is a REAL good way to get into trouble in the Pit. 😉
* * *
Lynn the Packrat
---
### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [December 13, 1999, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/13 "1999-12-13T14:03:00Z")
RHPS is the most fun you can have at a movie (get your mind out of the gutter)
* * *
–
Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions)
“Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat
O p a l C a t
[www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com)
---
### Author:  [@AuraSeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuraSeer)
#### Post date: [December 14, 1999, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/14 "1999-12-14T08:19:00Z")
**Lynn Bodoni** wrote:
> [@](#):
>
> Dissing RHPS is a REAL good way to get into trouble in the Pit. 😉
Been there, done that. At one point I started a whole thread just to complain about the movie. (I’d post a link, but the search engine is being surly again.)
**OpalCat** wrote:
> [@](#):
>
> RHPS is the most fun you can have at a movie (get your mind out of the gutter)
I have had more fun watching the monotonous advertising slideshows that some theaters play while people are taking their seats.
Come to think of it, I’ve had more fun staring at a blank screen and waiting for a film to start.
RHPS is the second-worst movie I have ever had the displeasure of sitting through.
I say **second** -worst, only because it lacked the thousand-decibel dentist-drill sounds which bombarded the audience during _Pi_. At least RHPS did not make me feel like ice picks were being driven through my eardrums. (This is the only positive comment I will make about the movie. And no, I am not joking.)
---
### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [December 14, 1999, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/15 "1999-12-14T10:26:00Z")
…I liked Pi too…
* * *
–
Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions)
“Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat
O p a l C a t
[www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com)
---
### Author:  [@AuraSeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuraSeer)
#### Post date: [December 15, 1999, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/16 "1999-12-15T05:28:00Z")
That’s right, Opal, admitting that you have a problem is the first step toward recovery. If you are willing to work hard at it, you may someday be able to overcome your bad taste.
---
### Author:  [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)
#### Post date: [December 15, 1999, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/17 "1999-12-15T09:38:00Z")
Here’s the link, AuraSeer:
[http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000244.html](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000244.html)
---
### Author:  [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)
#### Post date: [December 15, 1999, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/18 "1999-12-15T16:13:00Z")
This reminds me, jjtm, did you ever find that cast in San Fransisco?
* * *
Cessandra
Killed a man with no hands. . .
---
### Author:  [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)
#### Post date: [December 15, 1999, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrors/3330/19 "1999-12-15T19:08:00Z")
…it was easy, cause he couldn’t fight back.
Sorry. Had to stick that under Cessandra’s tag line.
* * *
JMCJ
Die, Prentiss, Die! You will never have a more glorious opportunity!