# Rocky Horror **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 7, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993 "2003-10-07T03:32:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blasphmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@blasphmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blasphmer)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993/1 "2003-10-07T03:32:20Z")
IT’s that time again, Haloween…Anyone know of any TV stations or midwest theaters (Detroit Metro) that is going to show the movie? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993/2 "2003-10-07T12:59:06Z")
No, but the movie is available on DVD and video. If you can’t find a theatre and don’t want to put up with the edits, go rent/buy it. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993/3 "2003-10-07T17:09:03Z")
I can’t IMAGINE seeing it on TV–97% of the experience is seeing it with an audience. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993/4 "2003-10-07T18:02:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lissener \* > \*\*I can’t IMAGINE seeing it on TV–97% of the experience is seeing it with an audience. \*\* What’s the other 3%?😕 ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993/5 "2003-10-07T18:13:05Z")
If it’s not available live in the theatre (or if, as in Madison, the cast SUCKS) then watching it on TV is better than not watching at all. I wouldn’t bother watching a commercial edit, but the DVD is fun. It has a lot of features and I’ve done the movie so many times in the theatre I can pretty much put myself there by myself so it’s all good. ---
**Author:** ![ExpiringMind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ExpiringMind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExpiringMind)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993/6 "2003-10-07T18:22:09Z")
Here’s an idea…Get the DVD and throw a Rocky party. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993/7 "2003-10-07T18:23:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blessedwolf \* > \*\*What’s the other 3%?😕 \*\* Pig lips, chicken entrails, gravel, wood chips and “foreign matter”. Best when eaten with an RC Cola and a Moon-Pie! * * * Delta-32 Skee-doo! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993/8 "2003-10-07T18:45:34Z")
**blasphmer** , try asking at alt.cult-movies.rocky-horror. Too bad you’re not around here, there’s a theater in Fairfax that still has midnight shows. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993/9 "2003-10-07T22:59:43Z")
As for finding a theater, I would try googling. It’s worked for me! ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993/10 "2003-10-08T04:50:05Z")
Try your local alternative newspapers, the same ones that might carry _The Straight Dope_. If anyone around is playing it, they’d likely advertise in it. I think VH1 aired it Halloween night last year. They might again, or maybe Comedy Central or SciFi… ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993/11 "2003-10-08T05:34:48Z")
Hey, I’m a Metro Detroiter too, so if you throw that party, let me know. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993/12 "2003-10-08T08:14:51Z")
I’d have to wager a substantial sum that RHPS rates as _the_ highest audience participation level movie of all time. If not that, certainly the _highest_ audience. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993/13 "2003-10-08T12:19:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > **I’d have to wager a substantial sum that RHPS rates as _the_ highest audience participation level movie of all time…** There are others? What are the titles of the other audience participation movies? I don’t mean just “cult” movies, I mean a movie where the audience has become part of the show. I don’t think there is any other. **The Rocky Horror Picture Show** is unique. **Shock Treatment** doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocky-horror/205993/14 "2003-10-08T13:06:48Z")
Well, there are sing-along versions of _The Sound of Music_ and _The Wizard of Oz_ but AFAIK RHPS is the only movie where this level of audience participation evolved organically.