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The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released in cinemas in late 1975 with
little fanfare, but the provocative musical, with its campy parody of sci-fi
and horror B-movies, fabulous costumes and rollicking songs, dug its glittering
heels in and refused to let go for the next 50 years.
The film was an adaptation of the hit musical
The Rocky Horror Show, created
by Richard O’Brien when he was an unemployed actor. The story of Dr
Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), an alien, transvestite scientist, decked out like a
bewitching glam rock god and hellbent on seducing everyone around him,
galvanised audiences into participating in a way that had never been seen
before.
As its popularity grew, audiences began to take an active role in screenings –
dressing up, dancing, singing along and adding their own lines of dialogue.
Screenings also became safe spaces for LGBTQ+ fans, drawn to the film’s
unabashed celebration of queerness, sexual liberation and gender fluidity.
It remains the longest-running theatrical release in film history and still
plays in cinemas today. We look back with the cast and crew to find out how the
film became such a cult phenomenon."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
