Into The Time Warp The Rocky Horror Picture Show as An Enduring Pop Cult Classic
For years, with its phenomenal success as a midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has made "don't dream it, be it" the motto for its ever-growing cult audience. The film continues to be regarded by critics and audiences as the only no-holds-barred, ultimate theatre experience, which has seemingly drawn a repeat audience of cult film followers year after year. More than just a movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) has become a community, a loud, profane, exuberant collection of cult film freaks freaks: the beautiful, the creative, the lovers and the lost. Despite its first success as a play and then initial failure when produced as a mainstream film, RHPS has become a successful paradigmatic cult classic due to its strange and unusual theatrical exhibition and the film's blend of thematic, visual and verbal elements, which parody accepted societal conventions. According to the RHPS Anniversary Commentary, a young actor by the name of Richard O'Brien originally wrote RHPS's musical predecessor, The Rocky Horror Show. After performing small roles in the films Carry On Cowboy and Casino Royale, O'Brien landed roles in the musicals Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, and made one disastrous yet fateful performance i
However, the RHPS Anniversary Commentary adds, when American producer and entrepreneur Lou Adler was brought to a performance, the show "took a dramatic leap as a production. The film's verbal, musical, and visual qualities which satire modern societal traditions, and its exuberant cinematic presentation, act as the building blocks on which this pop cult classic was shaped. The entire film was shot over the course of eight weeks in England and cost a little less than one million dollars to make. "Portrait of a Cult Film Audience: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The film has become a weekly staple for avid Rocky Horror devotees and has joined the ranks as a spirited cult celebration and long-term cinematic attachment, an achievement that it never set out to accomplish. Rocky Horror is a prime example of a film that projects most of the established criterion.
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