For years, with its phenomenal success as a midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has had an ever-growing cult audience. The film continues to be viewed by critics and audiences as the ultimate theatre experience, which has drawn a recurring audience of cult film followers year after year.
More than just a movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) has become a community of cult film freaks: the creative, the beautiful, the lovers and the lost. Despite the show’s success as a play and then initial failure when produced as a mainstream film, RHPS has become a successful cult classic due to its strange and unusual theatrical display and the films blend of visual and verbal elements.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was shot over the course of eight weeks in England and cost less than one million dollars to
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This time it can back as an enduring cult classic. Shown every Friday and Saturday night in some 200 theatres ever since, it has been seen by more people each year. The film has become a weekly staple for devoted Rocky Horror fans and has joined the ranks as a cult celebration and long-term cinematic attachment, an achievement that it never set out to accomplish.
From the beginning of the show, Rocky Horror pokes fun between the hearty musical and satirizes the various teenage, crime and horror movie genres that have dominated the big screen for years. It makes a hilarious connection between music and movies, so much so that it could remain meaningful for years to come.
The script serves as a form of cinematic parody and touching upon subjects such as heterosexual romance, sexual stereotypes and identifications, and in general, American morality. The film’s opening song Science Fiction Double Feature, pays tribute to many of these themes and not only sets up the entire plot of the movie, but also the humorous mood of the