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From: fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell)
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Subject: Re: Rocky Horror Picture Show?
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Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 14:11:24 EDT
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My only experience with this movie fortunately came from seeing
it on cable TV in the privacy of my own home many years ago.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is an horrendous, monumental
work of trash, so much so that it gives a new meaning to the
word.  It is Trash, with a capital "T" in illuminated manuscript.
It is Trash elevated to the very highest (or lowest) level of
bad taste possible without getting into a total gross-out (like
"Pink Flamingoes").

Near as I can remember, it is a retelling of the Frankenstein
legend, but with a cast of transvestites, homosexuals, punks
(I think this movie may have contributed to the start of the
"punk" thing), and other such pre-verts.  It was set to some
rather uninspired rock music, and I think that "Meat Loaf" played
one of the principal characters.  The depravity is good-natured,
though, and this is the source of the movie's appeal.

This film is shown at midnight movies in many places.  The audience
tends to be made up of people trying very hard to imitate the cast
in manner of dress, speech, and action; it has thus been transformed
into a kind of "Living Theatre," where audience participation is 
the point.  I've never been to a screening, but my girl friend has
(before I met her -- fortunately), and I guess that it is entertaining
in a kinky sort of way:not the movie, the audience.

It used to play at Yorktown in the DuPage County area, but I don't 
know if it does any more.
-- 

                               Bob Fishell
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