I heard my wife talking to my daughter about possibly seeing the movie together, and was like, “Hey, that’s on my list too, I wanna see it!” I’ll check in with my wife, make sure she’s got enough info about it from folks in our circles. For reference, I don’t brag on my kids much I don’t think, but this kid is goddamn brilliant and is reading China Mieville and Jeff Van der Meer and Homer and Stephen Graham Jones; her tolerance for very weird horror is pretty high. Unless we’re talking Naked Lunch (novel, not movie) levels of depravity, she might be able to process it.
While the two are completely different I think a case could be made that they be mentioned together for being in the same level of weird.
(NOTE: It has been 35 years since I read “The Naked Lunch” so…grain of salt.)
I mean, what are we talking about here? Lisztomania? Salo? Cremaster?
They made a film about the Russian food?
Those things I do not recognize (I mean, I do not know about them).
Sodomy is a food!?
Salo is salted and seasoned pig fat. If I hadn’t moved recently I could get you a photo of some in plastic wrap priced for sale.
Well I haven’t watched this movie either and watching the trailer I can’t imagine how anyone can think making the gorgeous Emma Stone look like she does in that movie was done for the “male gaze”.
If you see it I’ll be interested to read your take on the movie and, doubly-so, if your daughter sees it with you and what she thought about it (which is not to encourage you to take her, just if you do).
Lisztomania (1975), directed by Ken Russel
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1979), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), directed by Matthew Barney.
I’ve seen some of Lisztomania. I’d like to see the rest. I’ve heard a lot about Cremaster and would like to see if it’s any good. I feel (and I may be wrong) no desire to see 120 Days Of Sodom.
BTW
Suntan Lotion I had no idea you were a Rocky Horror fan.
Yes. Used to attend 30+ years ago. Cleveland Hts. Cedar/Lee theater. Had a major crush on the guy who dressed as Furter.
And @MrDibble, where were you at this time?
Yes, please tell us. We’re shivering with anticip -
One of the things I REFUSED to part with when I moved was a complete in box (and working last time I tested it) Rocky Horror video game for the Commodore 64. I also own the official comic book adaptation. I used to go all the time with friends when I lived in Virginia. But I haven’t been in decades.
I’ve gone to Rocky Horror around Halloween since I was 16 (1983) (with a few misses here and there for reasons). My friends and I would drive to the Music Box in downtown Chicago to see it. My parents would NOT have been ok with that (not Rocky Horror but going to the city…maybe Rocky Horror too) so I just never told them.
COVID stopped that so I have not been in a few years (sadly).
I have very fond memories of going, with a bunch of other teens, to the Rialto’s Rocky Horror in Raleigh on lots of Saturday nights. A local nonprofit had a teen hangout place to divert us from the evils of drugs and gangs, and the director would drive us to the movie. Hanging out in the bed of his pickup truck, doing 70 mph down I-40 with a bunch of friends in their corsets, was good times, and so, so quintessentially eighties.
Haven’t been in a long time, and probably won’t ever go again; I’m afraid it won’t have aged well at all.
I went to a shadowcast performance (actors performing in front of the screen with the movie) of Rocky Horror last November and had a great time! It aged pretty well I thought.
I’ve watched the film a few times at home- and watchd when they showed it on Fox and again when they did the remake. The film holds up. I’m worried I haven’t held up well
I like hot dogs.