In 1979 I was 28 years old. I was living in Atlanta. I was working with a 20 year old guy. He said that he and all his friends went down to the Peachtree Battle theater at midnight on Friday to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show. He had seen it 11 times!

One Friday night my girlfriend and I went down to the Peachtree Battle theater. This movie was some weird stuff. There was Tim Curry, wearing black leather bra and panties, singing his song "I'm just a sweet transexual, transvestite, from Transylvania..."


There was a scene where Susan Sarandon was standing out on the porch in the rain. Every kid in the theater pulled out a squirt gun, and squirted water into the air. Sandra and I got soaked.

In another scene, Tim and Susan had a bottle of champagne. Tim poured it into champagne glasses. They had a toast, get it? Every kid in the theater pulled out a piece pf toast, a slice of bread cooked in the toaster, and flung it at the big screen like a Frisbee. 400 pieces of toast in the air.

Sandra and I left the theater saying "What the f*** was that?"
I guess you had to be 20 years old to understand Rocky Horror Picture Show.

My wife and I still watch it occasionally as we think it is hilarious. Who knew it was prophetic.

That kinda stuff goes on at one of the old down town theaters every Halloween. People go as far as dressing like the characters in the movie. I've never been to one of those shows. I do own the DVD though and we'll watch it around Halloween every year.

It is still played every Friday night at midnight at Plaza Theater in Atlanta. Evidently, it has been running in Atlanta non stop for 45 years. I was told that there is a line around the block at 10:30 on Friday night, many fans dressed as characters from the movie.

https://www.plazaatlanta.com/movie/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-w-ldod/

Simon, when I was a teenager I visited my sister in college and her friends took us to see it at Midnight and get the full experience. It was a blast and I felt so cool hanging with the older crowd.

I always thought it kooky fun phenom and a sort of right of passage for college kids. Fast forward a few decades and saw it come on. I couldn't take the transness and overall celebration of "wrong" of it. I turned away wondering how I ever thought it was anything but..

Getting old I guess,

I have it in my collection and watch it once in a great while. Great for laughs.
PJ

I've seen it on TV a few times, never in a theater. It is entertaining. MeatLoaf is the motorcycle guy in the movie. Lots of people to this day show up at viewings dressed as the characters and act out the parts and reciting lines along with the actors. Not my sorta thing but fun to watch.

Now showing daily in Washington DC.

I saw it in 1976 in Seattle.
Later people started dressing up for midnight showings.

Does art imitate life or does life imitate art? I firmly believe the latter.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is just one of many examples of art pushing the boundaries and life following suit.

I saw it the first time in 1973 at Covina Theater. It must have run there for 20 years, always a midnight showing.

A local theater showed it religiously at the midnight movies on Friday & Saturday nights when I was in HS. We used to get lit (underage drinking!!) and go to the shows "armed" to the teeth, water bottles. bags of rice, toast, even loose hot dogs (Frankenfurter). Chaos ensued and the place looked like Hiroshima at the end of the night. The poor bastards that had to clean up at the end of the night....hard to believe they ever allowed that.

Well great! Now I'll have "Time Warp" circulating through my head all day. Thanks a lot!


RS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show

1973 stage show used for 1975 film

Budget $1.4 million
Box office $226 million


If you had a piece of that, you were set.

The movie people would have called sharing profits "points"

never saw it........

I slung me some toast at the theater girlfriend now wife hold me to the show weird ass s*** to this farm boy

I used to think movies and shows like that were harmless fun for people with eclectic senses of humor. Who knew it would lead to people advocating mutilating grade school kids?

mebbe the debbil wrote the scrp?

Ahhh, just brought back a nostalgic memory for me!

Back in our town in the 70's, 80's, and ?90's, a couple of the local theaters ran movies at midnight on Friday and Saturdays to get the "poor" local high school and college kids out for some movies and additional revenue. They were advertised as "dollar midnight movies", IIRC. We never took dates, mostly went with the guys. I don't remember them being "A-list" current movies either. Anyone remember one called "Fritz the Cat"? (I exited that one pretty early on as I remember... still will come up in conversations with old friends sadly!)

One night we went to see the old original MASH movie, which I had never seen and was not overly entertained as I had grown accustom to the TV series/actors. I got up and walked out and over into the adjoining theater which was running Rocky Horror Picture Show which I even knew less about. I stood at the back of the theater in the aisle just to see what it was all about. I was kind of baffled at the content, theme, and activities of the crowd... totally taken off guard I guess. I probably wasn't in there 5-10 minutes when what looked like a cute, petite little co-ed came walking up the aisle. I stepped to the side, but she stopped and began to look up at me and I thought she was going to say "hello" or ask me what I thought of the movie... next thing I know she is puking violently in my direction. So much for a cute female "hello" or greeting!!! Somehow I avoided getting hit but the smell was terrible. Being the naive gentleman that I was, I left her to fend for herself and exited the theater as quickly as possible back to MASH (even left that one early IIRC as "dollar night" had lost it's luster that evening...

I have never had any desire to see that movie again for some reason!

If it were not for the theme and the current social state of our good old USA, I might reconsider. The Austin Powers series (especially #1), Napoleon Dynamite, and a couple of others I had to watch more than once before I could really say that I enjoyed them and their humor. Now they are some of my favorites! Some of Jim Carey's stuff is hard for me as well for some reason... almost too stupid!

These days, I look forward to the likes of old clips of Johnny Carson, Jonathan Winters, Tim Conway and friends, Rodney Dangerfield, The Smothers Brothers, Dean Martin "roasts", Flip Wilson/Geraldine Jones, Mel Brooks movies, Laugh In, old Saturday Night Live stuff, etc. for a good old laugh.

I am "jaded" enough now that Greg Gutfeld (and his show/guests) is about the only current show that can make me laugh unexpectedly... or laughing at myself and my own stupid acts as I age. Interesting times to say the least.

16 in 79... never seen that weird ass schit in my small town... should'a lynched the lot of em... now look what's happened!...

When the squirt guns come out you're supposed to get out newspaper to make an impromptu umbrella.

Or drunk, which is what we usually were if we were at the midnight movie at the old Cini 8. We were still going well into the late 80s. It became a cult thing really. I remember any other movie at that theater they basically frisked you for a box of Swedish Fish, but for that movie everyone brought paper bags full of accessories and management never batted an eye.

Good times...

I went to it one time and there was a big thunderstorm passing through. The lights went out, movie stopped playing so everyone shuffled out into the lobby, along with the people who were there for a midnight (??!!!) showing of a Disney movie or something. Talk about not getting along, who would have thought that mixing a bunch of drunks openly smoking pot with a bunch of families would cause friction?

There ended up being a big fist fight and the cops came, but nobody got arrested for open containers or MJ possession and the show went on soon after the lights came on again.

I was told that there is a line around the block at 10:30 on Friday nights in Atlanta at the Plaza Theater, with many of the fans dressed in costume. So, imitating Tim Curry, they got several guys there dressed in black leather bra and panties on a public sidewalk.

When I saw this movie in Atlanta in 1979, nobody in the audience was dressed in character. Had there been a man standing on the sidewalk in that year, dressed in black leather bra and panties, he wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes. Cops would have hauled him off for public [or, pubic] indecency. Cops probably would have given him an attitude adjustment in the Paddy Wagon with the nightstick across the head for a few licks.

Today, the grown man on the sidewalk half-nude probably gets the LGBTQ Trophy from Stacy Abrams.

Thus we see the moral decline of the once-great nation. Germany went through a phase like this. Ever see the movie Cabaret? The Weimar Republic displayed this kind of public sex deviancy, lasted for ten years, from 1923 to 1933, and then Germany collapsed as the weakened state allowed Hitler to take over and start WW 2.

i wonder... will history repeat itself?...

Doesn't history almost always repeat itself in some fashion if society waits long enough... it is probably even more likely to happen sooner with as much history that is trying to be erased by many today! At some level, society never remembers.

Reading a good, almost 80yo book on Christopher Columbus and what his "discovery" of the New World meant to a "decaying" Christian Europe in the face of the geopolitical expansion of the neighboring Muslim "World". Obviously more to it than that, but it did stymie the Muslims, as well as the Chinese for that matter, and put Europe back in the sunshine and control at least for awhile. Fast forward to today... no "New Worlds" to bail us out again in modern times with the same problems again at hand. The Arab/Christian/Jewish thing will never be worked out by mortals anyway... buckle up!!!

Rocky Horror Picture Show was just an early symptom of a small decaying segment of America, mostly Hollywood. Fast forward to today, what 50 years? It's not just quirky, weird, and maybe funny to someone under the influence, it's becoming reality in a distracted, vulnerable, misguided and complacent Country.

Laws of Thermodynamics shed light on such things... natural spontaneous events lead to increased "entropy" or randomness, disorganization, chaos, etc. depending on how you define it."Work" or "heat/energy" must be consciously used by society/humans to overcome "natural" things to provide order and progress.
"Physical Chemistry" was one of the more enlightening college courses I ever took in terms of understanding other science subjects and processes in the World.

Back to history repeating itself again, I personally know it does as I was vomitted on several times by my sick kids and maybe once or twice at work in the hospital, BUT no way I want to repeat that if I don't have to... no Rocky Mountain Picture Show for me for many reasons!

I wasn’t around for the hay day of it. I watched it on TV when I was about 13 and thought it was gross. Why would I want to see gross flamer transvestite [bleep]? I don’t like that culture in real life why would I want to see it glorified and promoted in a movie?

The purpose of the movie was propaganda to move the needle for mainstream cultural acceptance. It obviously worked as intended.

And then there was that dang Mrs. Doubtfire movie.

To a lesser degree yes and marketing it towards kids as virtuous and family friendly. The storyline is a man in drag in order to prove his masculine love of family values and worth as a family man🙄

You’re from CA. You think you’re based. You’re all in on leftist ideology without realizing it. How’s that 10 day waiting period to buy a gun on the CA approved firearm purchase list working for you?

It was a hoot then and still is today.

The creature from the black lagoon.

There’s some good music in it. Tim Curry’s entrance scene and of course Meatloaf’s number.

Seen it two or three times over the decades, never did the whole toast thing tho.

Wifey knows that movie word for word

It was my ex wifes favorite movie,that should have been my first clue...........

A: you know nothing about where I'm from. Presently living in Cali, yes. But, where have I lived and worked for large portions of my adult life? As a child I had no control where I was birthed or resided, neither does any other human I know of.

B: you have only supposition to guide you as to what ideology I'm "all in on". Just an FYI, I'm kind of a free thinker and make every attempt to base my thinking and decisions on what I see as evidence, not because someone else told me what to think or do. A little libertarian leaning in my politics but smart enough to vote R whether or not I like the candidate, if for no other reason than to offset a D vote and because they tend to show some support for the 2A.

C: did you mean to say I'm biased? I'm not sure about what you mean when you say I think I'm "based" . Is that Michigan speak? Could you clarify perhaps?

D:The 10 day waiting period, and all the other multitude of ineffective firearm laws have never worked for their supposed purposes. In Cali or any other State or Commonwealth I've run across. By the way, how's Gretchen and her minions working out for you folks? Y'all have some new stuff to deal with soon, if not already.

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news...igan-laws-that-will-take-effect-in-2024/

Oh no!

Birdie and Wifey have been indoctrinated!

By a musical no less.

The first time I saw it was in the VF 151 Ready Room on the USS Midway. We were in the Indian Ocean on Gonzo Station off the coast of Iran. Fun times. 😊

Point A: I was giving you credit for having been born in CA rather than choosing to move to CA.

B: A libertarian that never misses a chance to bash Trump but blindly votes Republican.

C: You don’t understand the definition…

D: Gretchen is a POS but if we can say anything about her it’s that at least she isn’t Newsom and that we don’t have a fraction of the laws that you have. They may wind up here. It’s spreading everywhere but you can’t figure out the root causes and propaganda that encourages it.

No doubt that there are good honest and aware Constitutionalist in CA. It’s just that you are not one of them.

I believe it’s common knowledge that the guy who played RiffRaff the butler, actually wrote and directed the whole thing.

And how did you determine I am not an "aware Constitutionalist".

please, present evidence.

The Donald, who I sometime bash, like I tend to do to all politicians, did a pretty good job overall. I do not blindly vote R. My eyes have been wide open for decades that any other vote would lead to consequences I could not tolerate being a part of. Based has multiple definitions. Gretchen isn't Gavin for sure, just wait until she is his running mate or a member of his Cabinet should he be elected. Or perhaps he will run as her VP.

One time I invited a rather geeky black guy (think Urkel) from school to go with us one night. Wyatt was incredibly smart and had been a "brain" ever since we were in grade school. In high school he started to loosen up a bit and I invited him to go to Rocky Horror one night without telling him what to expect. He had no clue and just thought it was a horror movie. I told the other three guys to hide their "ammunition" until we got in the theater. As we found our seats Wyatt noticed the growing crowd was getting wild and started asking questions. I said "Just wait". When the movie started and festivities got going he just sat there with a stunned look on his face. Eventually, he grabbed one of my squirt bottles and a handful of rice and joined in. By the end of the night he was "all in" and having the time of his life. Afterwards,he said "Can we come next week? I'll bring my own ammo!' That was about 38 years ago and I still laugh when I think about it. I saw Wyatt about 10 years ago for the first time since we graduated. He is some sort of chemical engineer making big bucks. We talked about that night and as we parted he said, "Don't forget me if Rocky Horror comes back to town!"

I went and saw it in college. Best part was all the sexy college girls dressed up like the movie.