I’ve only been to a couple of midnight showings, so not a huge fan of the participation aspect.
But, meeting up with someone at a new job, whom I’d met at the show meant I got to say; “Oh, I didn’t recognise you with your clothes on.”
And we’re going weekly starting in November.
The Tower in Salt Lake City plays it every October, either on Halloween or the week before Halloween.
The Tower also has a weekly Midnight movie. It’s awesome, I love it. I never even heard of midnight movies until I moved back to Utah—for future reference, the Inland Empire in So Cal is more of a Squaresville than SLC.
You better believe that it still runs at the Oriental, and has been for 30 years straight with live cast along with the movie.
I’ve gone a dozen times or so…
I think I’d get heartily sick of it if I went to a weekly screening. There used to be one in Charlotte when I was in high school, but I never went. The university I go to now holds a screening the weekend before Halloween which has become a tradition with me. There’s a costume show beforehand that gets really rowdy. (Last year the three winners–Rocky, Columbia, and Eddie–performed a striptease and fake lap dance that was better than the actual movie.) Then during the movie a third of the people have actual scripts (printed out or memorized), a third of us are making it up as we go along (and keeping up with the traditional lines like “ASSHOLE-SLUT ASSHOLE-SLUT” during the wiper scene), and a third doesn’t get it at all and provide great amusement to the rest of us. You don’t know funny until someone’s told you to shut up so they can hear the movie at RHPS.
That being said, I don’t consider it a proper Halloween unless I’ve gone home with rice in my underwear and glitter in my hair. But only at Halloween. My MST DVDs tide me over for the other 364 days.
The Nuart in L.A. also occasionally plays it, perhaps monthly at most.
I’ve never seen RHPS, but it still plays every Saturday night at the Clinton St. Theater in Portland. I don’t think it’s for me, but I could see it if I wanted.
Well, probably, but back in my high school days and a few years after RHPS was fairly active. The Tyler mall in Riverside and the Montclair plaza every weekend, even Victorville for a summer in 86, with trips to hollywood every so often.
My high school prom was at Griswolds in Clairmont, and six of us left early, drove to Montclair and saw RHPS in formal dress.
The IE for me was 760 not 909
How about a socal doper trip to a screening?
I’m a college student in the middle of the midwest. This Halloween I will be meeting with a few friends at Ball State University for a midnight screening. I have my fishnets already.
In high school I was the one who introduced my group of friends to the Rocky Horror Picture Show without even knowing what it was–I had heard of it only vaguely and suggested it for a Halloween party. We ended up watching it twice in one night, and then several times over the course of the following week. We quoted songs and lines all the time in class.
It’s fun at home, but there’s really nothing to compare to a movie at midnight (POTC 2 and 3, Dark Knight are the ones I’ve been to). I’m really excited about this year.
It was quite magical to have 25 high schoolers that had never seen anything like it before all have our jaws drop in unison as Frank stepped out of the elevator.
And I think that the movie is still plenty weird, even in this day and age.
During 1988-89, I lived a few blocks away from the Cedar Lee theatre in Cleveland hts. and just thinking of it takes me back.
I saw it every weekend.
I think it still shows there.
It reminds me of the happiest time of my life.
And the crush i had on the man (now a doctor) who played Frank.
I’ve seen the movie, but I’ve never gone to a midnight showing. Too shy I guess. Do they still haze virgins?
Yup.
I got away with that. My first time, no one noticed I was new.
toucha toucha toucha touch me
I wanna be dirty
Back when I first graduated high school in '78 (yes, I’m old), I went to see RHPS evert weekend, it played Friday & Saturday nights at midnight… sometimes I went both nights if I was bored and had the money. LOVED IT. I have lost count of how many times I’ve seen it.
Sometime in the early 80’s, it went down to once a month, and about a year later, stopped playing here entirely. (Evansville Indiana)
Now it plays just once a year at an outdoor ampitheatre in the fall. I’ve gone a couple of times, but something’s just not the same now.
It seems amazing that Rocky Horror has grossed less money in 30 years than Dark Knight did in 1 week 
Adjust for inflation. Box Office Mojo says RHPS has made about $390 million over the years. That’s less than Dark Knight, but when you consider the fact that RHPS has been playing in probably a few dozen theaters over that time and the differences in budgets, it looks different.
Oddly enough, just the other day I saw a TV show where some of the characters go to an audience participation RHPS. I’d guess it was Swingtown, but I can’t remember which episode.