Format: Hulu
Viewing: Unknown
Decade: 1970's
Director: Jim Sharman
There must be plenty of academia written on The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). And yet, I find it a bit difficult to discuss.
I was fifteen, just moved back to Spring, TX and in the burbs when my mom - not sure what else to do with friendless 'ol me on the weekends - did what she did for a few months when we first got there, and took me to the local video emporium.* I'd rent 3 or 4 movies and that's what I'd do when my parents turned in and the insomnia that has defined my entire life kicked in. And among the tapes - I picked up the 15th Anniversary edition of Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I had heard of Rocky Horror when I was maybe 13, but had no real concept. When I was 14 and still in Austin, some friends suggested we all go to a midnight screening. Austin was, for reasons that make sense if you knew it at the time, one of the first cities outside of New York or LA to have a regular midnight screening of the movie. I think it was at its semi-permanent location of Northcross Mall by that time. And my mom greenlit me going - until about 72 hours before it was time to go, and I don't know what he teacher friends told her, but suddenly I was not going.