Every good movie deserves a sequel, and RH is no exception: Shock treatment, as has been pointed out. I happened to have had a tiny role as musician in bringing this to market, and always liked it, in a quirky sort of way. But I never liked Rocky Horror, no matter how many shows the Tiffany had at midnight on Sunset. I guess it has a lot to do with what you are exposed to, not the art value of the material.
Whew. Getting too philosophical in here.
If anybody cares, I dug up this lengthy and detailed review of Shock Treatment here.
I saw RHPS for the first time when I was working at Six Flags Over Texas in 1979. The park closed at 10:00 pm in the spring and fall if I remember correctly, and the group of people I worked with would all go grab dinner and then see the movie. The shoebox mall theater in Arlington showed it every week, but the best experience was to go to the Villiage Theater in Dallas. Great audience participation and it was probably the first place I really got over my teen-age self consciousness. I can’t say that any of us were exactly compulsive about it, but if someone were to tell me that in the three or four years I worked there I saw it a hundred times I wouldn’t be suprised. It was just a fun thing to do with a good group of friends and it had that “my parents would hate this” quality to add a little spice.
I’ve seen it once or twice since then on video, but the enjoyment I get out of it now is primarlily because it evokes another time in my life. My history of being a fan also leads to some neat moments – it’s fun to attend a Rotary Club party and suddenly find a table of 40-something Rotarians doing the Time Warp.
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Hey now, I never said I liked Shock Treatment! I do love the songs, though. Heard the songs years before I saw the movie. The story I made up to fit the songs was way better than the movie.