It’s Hallowe’en. It’s a dark and rainy night. I’m home all along. The trick-or-treaters have been sparse — I’ve only had twenty kids all night, so I’m handing out great fistfuls of candy to each. You know what that means…
It’s time for Rocky Horror!
I’ve turned the sound way up and am soaking up the vibes. I’d put on fishnet stockings if I had any.
This movie is right there in my happy place. I’ve been watching it yearly since about 1976.
Uh-oh. The elevator scene just started. Bye.
Off topic but Covid with furin cleavage site in bats
random summary
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new-coronavirus-subspecies-sars-cov-2-mutation-discovered-brazilian-bat
paper:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684489v1
It’s always time for a late night, science fiction, double feature picture show!
I just watched that a couple of nights ago, and the songs have been running through my head ever since.
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I first heard of RHPS when it was released and I saw the lips with the “A Different Set Of Jaws” tag line in the theater’s poster displays. I’d never seen a trailer or read a review, and so I took it at face value and assumed it was horror, probably with cannibalism and other depravations I was still too innocent to consume. I was expecting sickening scenes like one that still haunts me from Midnight Cowboy, where some white-haired socialite on tv was torturing her purse poodle with false eyelashes and breath spray (I swear I didn’t imagine this, though I’ve never seen it in any broadcast showings of it).
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Fast forward several years and a cross-country move later, and the midnight showings at the local repertory art house finally got my attention and curiosity enough to talk a friend into going to see it. Needless to say it defied all my expectations. I loved it and was hooked, seeing it every weekend, going alone if need be.
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I’ve since lost count of the number of total times I’ve seen it, but I think I’ve seen it in 6 states and ~ 10 different theaters (many of which sadly no longer exist). It was interesting seeing how different cities varied in the audience participation lines, and I’m pretty sure I imported a CA line to OH (the reaction was one that indicated it was new to them and that they liked it, so maybe they used it again). :)
bcw bcw–
Thanks for providing direct links. I’m not prepared to search online for “functional furin cleavage site”.
Halloween, eh?
Sure, Rocky Horror.
I first saw it in… um, 1978 in an all-nighter at Adealide Uni.
But time marches on…
[PS that night included Flesh Gordon. (not a typo)]
Enjoy!
Happy Halloween to all those who celebrate it.
There’sdefinitley such a thing a scomfort viewing (movies, TV, etc..) just as there’s comfort food.
I just recently found out that Tim Curry had a stroke in 2012 and has been in a wheelchair ever since. It’s a bummer.
Our community theatre usually does a production of RHPS every year. When we went to see Newsies (the theatre is being quietly subversive this year), the director announced that RHPS was canceled this year as the Atlas Theatre (where they usually do the show) is down for renovations. There were many sighs of disappointment. My sister is the theatre manager for the city, so I’m guessing that was music to her ears! (The theatre here struggles to get enough money, so the more patrons, the better!)