Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tuesday evening, I attended The Colony Women's League social. It was an evening of what I thought would be a scary movie and popcorn night.

The movie of choice was "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". It is a quite bizarre movie with a huge following.

Rocky Horror is the first and only true audience partici-(SAY IT!)-pation movie. People yell back lines at the screen during the extended pauses between dialogue, dress up in costume and act out the film, and throw props various times during the film.

Some of the props are rice thrown at the wedding scene; toast to throw whenever a toast is proposed; flashlights for the song 'There's a Light'; newspaper to put over your head when Janet and Brad are running in the rain; etc...

The audience participation phenomenon was observed as early as the film's first run in 1975 (when it bombed during limited engagements in 7 of 8 cities), and was later re-released as a midnight movie where the audience participation really began to flourish.

And by the way, for the "gore sensitive", Rocky Horror is NOT a horror film. It is a rock-musical send-up of old science-fiction and horror films.