Oh PS - the guy who plays Riff Raff (the blonde "butler" type guy) is Richard O'Brien, the man who wrote the musical stage version, the screenplay for the film, and a lot of the music for them. Incredibly talented (and somewhat warped...in a good way) guy.
Pandemic aside, RHPS played on the midnight movie circuit and saved a lot of small independently owned theaters from closing across the country. Tim Curry has had theater owners thank him personally.
@@AngelGroves i realize this is like a year old at this point, but if you can find a regular/weekly midnight showing, it's such a different experience than watching the movie alone. i don't want to say more than that lol
@@AngelGrovesWhat did you say about Tim Curry at that moment? ( 11:19) It sounded like you said he's a fit or something... What was it you called him? And what does it mean? Argh!! I can't get my damn comment to have both a link to your name to notify you of it, AND the time stamp so you know which moment I'm talking about. Anyway, I'll copy and paste the comment here so you don't have to go searching for it. Hopefully it works. Could you please answer my question? I'm quite curious about what you said. Great video, Cheers, Gx
@@guybrewin556 Hi! I just re-watched that part, to double check. I said "He's so fit". "Fit" meaning in good shape/ physically fit. :) Thanks for the comment!
This movie came out in 1975, the year I graduated high school and began my University studies. I believe I first saw this in 1976 at a small independent little theater. Even then there was audience participation like throwing rice and toast. Maybe 10% of the audience wore costumes. And some brought liquor, or smoking herbs. It was a great movie and experience.
Fun Fact: Those iconic lips at the beginning belong to Patricia Quinn (Magenta), but that's not her voice. In the original stage version of Rocky Horror, the opening number was sung by the Usherette, a character that is traditionally played by the same actor who plays Magenta. The vocals on ‘Science Fiction, Double Feature’ are in fact those of Rocky Horror creator…..Riff Raff himself, Richard O’Brien. You must go to an actual performance of Rocky Horror…..it’s an experience that’s not to be missed!!! In 2016, Curry played The Criminologist in the television film remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Tim Curry has always had an uncanny knack for turning up where you least expect him. He was Darkness in Ridley Scott's Legend, Pennywise in the 1990 TV movie version of Stephen King's IT, and the voice of Captain Hook in the 90's Fox Kids animated series, Peter Pan and The Pirates. As Tim would say, "don't dream it, be it."
he was also in the Worst Witch tv series as the grand high wizard, In ferngully as hexxus, in the film Kongo, in the Video game command and conquer, voice actor in dragon age origins so many
He also was Nigel Thornberry. It's very strange that I remember him most for IT, Rocky Horror, and Thornberries, because none of them are anything alike.
My first and favorite Tim Curry role was as "Darkness" in LEGEND with Tom Cruise and Mia Sara. A must see if you haven't. Parts of it may qualify for your intro to scary movies.
Meatloaf was an amazing performer. He was a rock star, actor and performing artist. Check out some of his live performances. His songs are kind of like mini musicals.
@@AngelGroves You could start with "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" than go over to "I would do anything for love" (The extended Version) and than .... well, basicaly everything from Bat out of Hell is great !
I love seing people that know nothing (or allmost nothing) react to this movie. When you started talking about this as a real horror movie i knew i was in for a good time.
Tim Curry was 28 when he did this film , and the guy on the motorcycle is the late , Michael Lee Aday , stage name was meatloaf , he had several hits back in the day !
I was years behind most of my friends when I finally discovered RHPS. From what I'd heard, I thought the whole premise sounded really dumb, and I refused to watch it all the way through high school. Then when I was 19, I got dragged to a midnight showing by a group of friends, and I absolutely loved every minute of it. I haven't made it through a single year since without watching it at least once, and I'm quickly approaching my 43rd birthday.
Just because a movie is dumb doesnt make it bad. Glad you finally watched it, everyone needs to in their lifetime... Hope you know to not judge too harshly for other amazingly potential movies you come across. Happy watching!
Rocky Horror is very much a participatory experience. there's a local cast who mirror the screen action & the audience fills in any pauses in dialog or song lyrics with a series of ever-changing call-&-responses which can get pretty elaborate. a couple simple examples: whenever the narrator appears, shout out "wipe that ass off your chin"; whenever Brad asks for a phone, shout "castles don't have phones, asshole!". & the more dedicated among them bring along props to use & sometimes throw at the screen (subject to management approval) rice at the wedding, a newspaper to cover your head in the rain, some sort of light to turn on during There's a Light, you get the idea. it's a thing you need to experience at least once.
All the Narrator got from the audiences I saw this with was "BORING!!" I literally never heard Charles Gray say a word. Best audience bit: FRANK (seducing Brad): It's no crime to give yourself over to pleasure. AUDIENCE: It is in Massachusetts! (As, back in 1980, homosexual intercourse *was* a criminal act ["sodomy"] in many states. Indeed, many states, including Georgia, still have sodomy laws on the books; they've just been unenforceable since the Supreme Court ruled those laws invalid in "Lawrence v. Texas" in 2003. In the anti-abortion decision last summer, Clarence Thomas indicated that the Court was open to overturning "Lawrence", so the "good old days" might be coming back…sigh.)
My 1st experience with it was in a theater with a cast on the stage in front of the screen and an audience who knew beat for beat what to do. I feel blessed it wasn't sitting alone watching it on a tv haha
When I went to see it live (in the UK), every time anybody said "Brad Majors" everyone shouted "Asshole", every time they said "Janet Weiss" everyone shouted "Slut". The other thing I remember is during the storm scene at the beginning, everyone shouted "Describe your plums!", following which the narrator lifted the front of his jacket and intoned "Dark, heavy, and pendulous". One of the times I saw it, Jason Donovan was playing Frank (that was the 25th anniversary year), which I was concerned about prior to watching (as it's pretty far from the neighbours character and singer that was all I knew him from), but he was excellent in it.
We had "This man has no neck" for the narrator's appearance, then as one of the cast jumped up with arms together "fuck that chin, fuck that chin". I love how different locations and different times had different call outs.
You have the advantage of several decades of the awareness of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I was a young airman in 1980, stationed in England, and had not yet seen or heard of RHPS. I was sitting in my room in the dorm one day, bored out of my mind. At the base theater, there was some “horror” movie playing. I wasn’t interested in that genre, but was so desperate for some diversion that I decided to go see it anyway. My innocent young mind was totally unprepared for what was to come. When the screen lit up with those red lips singing about old science fiction movies, I thought “this is really a strange beginning for a horror movie”. Then when Brad and Janet started singing after the wedding, I thought “oh no, not a musical horror movie” I hated both genres. And it was CHEEZY! At their arrival at the castle I thought “ok, this is where it will start getting creepy”. The initial appearance of Riff Raff confirmed my suspicion. Then the music started again and I was, “wait, this is getting interesting”! With the Time Warp, I knew that this wasn’t going to be your average horror movie. I was filled with apprehension when I saw the elevator descending behind Brad and Janet. Frankenfurter then stepped out in his black robe. When he threw off his robe and revealed himself in a corset, garter belt, fishnet hose and high heels I was shocked! I was a young straight man and this made me very uneasy! But as I watched more I found myself curiously enjoying both the story and the music. After it was over I left the theater thinking “what the hell was that!” I didn’t know that, by that time, there was already a huge cult following of the movie. The base theater didn’t encourage audience participation, and with an audience of primarily military people, I don’t think many appreciated it. I didn’t think about it for several years after that, but in 1989 I took my new wife and stepson for their first experience. They were instant cultists! I later made costumes of the Riff Raff and Magenta space suits for my wife and myself to attend showings. Sadly, we divorced later, but now I have a different wife, and we have a different connection to the RHPS culture. We are both transgender women! “I’m just a sweet transvestite from Transexual Transylvania -a-a-a!”
You're right. It started out as a legit musical - "The Rocky Horror Show" in 1973 in London, and a cleaned-up version came to LA where Meatloaf joined the cast, playing the dual roles of Dr. Scott and Eddie. He supposedly got the job because he was the only one who could sing all the words in Hot Patootie. The film, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," came out in 1975, but didn't fare well. It landed on the midnight movie circuit, including the Waverly Theater, here in NYC. It was there that the movie became a phenomenon when viewers began coming in costume as the characters, acting out the show, coming up with witty comebacks that fit into the movies many pregnant pauses ("What Meatloaf again?), and bringing props for key moments (water guns and newspaper for the rain scene, toilet paper when they shout "Great Scott!" and such). Soon word spread and the film became a classic. The film also holds an important place in LBGTQ+ history as being a major milestone in brining gay culture to the mainstream, if not through the side door (note, I did not say backdoor). Many youth who couldn't express themselves fully came to RHPS and embraced the theme "don't dream it, be it."
Patricia Quinn (Magenta) is my homegirl, and a really cool lady. She totally embraces the cult of this movie. The other thing I mostly remember her from is I Claudius, one of the best TV series ever and a who's who of iconic British actors.
Here's the scoop on Rocky Horror. They use to play the movie, and while it was playing a cast would act it out in front of the theater. The audience would dress up as their favorite characters. And the audience would do audience participation with the film. It was like mad movies. The audience knew every line in the movie, so they'd make jokes and punchlines out of the dialogue in the movie. The audience also referred to certain characters by derogatory names, for instance whenever the film referred to Janet the audience would say "slut", and every time it referred to Brad the audience would say "asshole". Some theaters use to allow the audience to do things like throw rice during the wedding scene at the beginning of the movie and squirt squirt guns during the raining scene, as well as throw hot dogs (frankenfurters) whenever Dr. Frankenfurters name was mentioned. Most theaters did not allow the audience to throw things though because of the mess. I used to play Dr. Frankenfurter in a local theater back in the late 80's. It was great! It was like a silly fun cos play midnight picture show party at your local theater. And afterwards the cast and some audience would get together at Denny's.
You need to watch The Little Shop of Horrors. It's a very similar Musical experience. Different story, but fun and suspenseful in spots. The photography and lyrics and music are all phenomenal, just like Rocky Horror.
Every Saturday night at midnight we did the RHPS experience. Gen X just stands out as the best generation of music, film & entertainment in general. If you ever get a chance at a live screening.. GO!
3:25 - This song is a tribute to classic sci-fi movies. A lot of the lyrics are old movie titles. A few of them are The Day The Earth Stood Still, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula, Trifid, Runes, and When Worlds Collide. 4:45 - Now would be a good time to mention that this film is considered the classic Midnight Movie. Theaters all over the country hold regular showings where enthusiastic fans will come in costume to enjoy the film together. There is even a tradition of calling out reactions to certain cues in the movie (for example, every time someone in the film says 'Damn it!' the audience calls out 'JANET!' or vice-versa). There's actually several different call-back scripts you can find online. 4:47 - ...TO DEATH! 19:40 - This is Eddie. He's more of a plot device than a character. More importantly, this is Meatloaf, legendary rocker of the 70s and 80s. Some of his most famous songs are Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad and I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That). 27:09 - OH, YEAH!!! 38:58 - Looks like you watched the American version. This version cuts out almost the entire last song. If you can find the British version, the whole song is intact. Here's a link to the full ending: th-cam.com/video/yjc-I-parYs/w-d-xo.html
"I only know Tim Curry from The Wild Thornberries" .....'scuse me while I crumble to dust in the corner. There's SO much more and better things that he's done.
Me and my friends in HS used to go see this some Friday & Saturdsy nights at midnight at an old theater in a nearby town (this was in the late 80s). So many fond memories. And I still have the soundtrack on CD (which b is amazing). My favorite song on the soundtrack is "I'm Going Home" from the end of the movie. Curry's vocals are so moving and full of feeling & passion in that song.
First, that's so cool. I can only imagine the fondness of those memories! Also, that's my favorite song too!!!! After re-watching it during editing, and getting to listen to all the songs again/watch the performances again, that song and his performance is my favorite in the movie. It is beyond beautiful. I couldn't agree more about how you can feel Tim Curry's passion. Thank you for this comment!
@@AngelGroves You really owe it to yourself to try to find a theater where they have a "shadow cast". The audience experience makes this film just so much fun. In the wedding scene people would throw rice in the theater, when they are out in the rain people pull out newspaper and other such reactions. Also the audience talks back to the scene and adds a lot of humor to the whole experience.
@@GKinslayer - Cards, toast, confetti, balloons popped with joints to make explosion sounds. My gang used to go the Roxy Theater on Danforth in Toronto, and the rumor was that Alice Cooper lived upstairs.
@GKinslayer we used to bring bags of stuff (props) to the midnight showings. Lol. Toast, rice, water guns (for the rain), etc. Our theater had midnight showings every Friday & saturdsy night. Sometimes we'd go both nights. It was a great time. I've probably seen this movie 200 times. Lol. I still own the soundtrack on CD and the songs so.etimes come up on shuffle when I'm in the car. Always brings back such nostalgic memories.
You need to watch this movie in a theater where peeps dress up as their fav characters, scream at the screen and throw rice, toast, spray water, etc. LOTS of fun.
It's so funny that he had just lost all his weight when they started filming that movie because they had to build a fat suit for him. They didn't have a clue he'd do that.
He was also young Jack Black’s father in Tenacious D and the pic of Destiny. That was another singing role. It may have been his last singing role in a movie. I’m not 100% sure on that though.
Two Fun Facts: 1. there was a little known sequel to Rocky Horror, called Shock treatment, and 2. there was a remake a couple f years ago, starring Laverne Cox as Frank N. Furter, Adam Lambert as Eddie, and Tim Curry (post stroke) as the Criminologist.
I feel for anyone that never experienced the midnight screenings this had for years, it’s an experience that cannot be appreciated without actually being there. The dressing up, dancing, audience interaction, props and so much more are crazy good fun. It’s a great film but is made so much better with full participation of an audience That totally love the film and the midnight cinema experience
They still have late night screenings with shadowcasts! The only changes is no water guns and no rice. Don't want to damage the theater and cause too much trouble cleaning up after.
When I was much younger, we use to go to the local theatre on Friday night, at 11.30pm to watch this. People would get all dressed up as their favourite characters & you could put your name in a hat at the theatre for a chance to act out the movie as it was being displayed on the screen. So much fun. Two nights ago, in our city, I went to see a stage production of this show. Bought back so many memories. Was a great night
In Orlando, as I'm sure they do elsewhere, this movie is played on a screen while local actors act out the parts live. It used to be a thing we'd do before
The theater I used to go see it at in the 80s and 90s was organizing a floor show and I was asked to be Eddie. Unfortunately between college, work, and the metal band I was in there was no way I would have had the time for rehearsals.
Do they still do "virgin letters"? (If it's your first time at a show your friends write a note with your name and slip it to the cast. Before the show starts they call the "virgins" up to the front and have a little fun with them.
Tim Curry is in one of the most fun Tales From the Crypt episodes where he plays a family of hillbillies.. using lot of makeup and camera trickery.. also Curry's knack for character acting.. it's called Death of Some Salesman.
Probably one the very rare examples of a musical were every song is great. That initial scene were Riff Raff is singing from the window with the lightning and the range of his voice is just sheer cinematic excellence. Love this movie.
@@Greenwood4727 There is also a song that Brad sings on the bed when he is racked with guilt called Once In A While ... I cannot understand why they cut it as it is full of emotion that turns the story around but maybe that was why they cut it ?
Tim Curry has actually released a few albums in late 70s and they're on TH-cam if you're interested. This was a pleasant surprise for sure and I absolutely loved this reaction!!! It was perfect that you didn't know much going in. Thank you🙂🙂🙂
You should see if you can find a midnight showing of this, where everyone in the audience participates. There's a tons of parts where the audience interacts with the movie.
Interesting fact, Meatloaf said when came to the studio to shoot his scene for this film, he was actually pretty young, in his late teens, early twenties. He wandered onto the lot and the scene they were shooting at the time was the rest of the main cast up on the stage in stockings, and he wasn't sure what he'd gotten himself into.
Wrong, he was in the stage play in los Angeles before the movie and it was there that during rehearsal that he was suddenly upset about what he had gotten himself into. He has spoken about this numerous times. He was in the Roxy cast in 1974 when Tim Curry and the play came over from England. Obviously he got over his misgivings because he then did the movie and then the short Broadway run .
I was in my early teens when this movie came out. Every year, on Halloween, a few local theatres would show it, with full audience participation. It was still being done well into the 1990's, but I'm not sure if it still happening. It's so nice to see new generations enjoying this awesome show and I love the fact that you "get it". ! Listen to the soundtrack as well!
Oh, nice! That's cool you were in your eaely teens when it came out, and yeah, I keep hearing about the live audience participation! Yesss, I have been listening to the soundtrack so much since watching! Incredible. Thanks so much for this comment!
LATE COMMENT: This is the guiltiest of guilty pleasures. It's a movie you need to watch about 10 times to catch all the little elements that make it so great. In the opening the lips were Pat Quinn's (Magenta, the Domestic) but the voice was Richard O'Brien's (Riff Raff), and it does help to know the old science fiction movies of the 30's - 70's. It is a real bummer that so much of the music due to copyright rules.
Tim Curry has a killer voice. For example, he played the big devil/demon in Legend, which really showed off his voice. Killer soundtrack in that movie also.
My introduction to this movie was in the mid '80s during my university years. Annually, around Halloween time, the local cinema would have midnight showings featuring "full audience participation". People would dress as their favorite characters and line up around the block hours in advance. The cinema also sold "goodie bags" with all of the typical "participation props" (i.e. rice, newspaper, squirt gun, hot dog, etc.) I became such a fan that I bought a book on the history of the stage play and how it was made into the movie. The book also contained many of the standard audience participation lines. My DVD copy of the movie has the option to play with or without audience participation banter.
This was a perfect reaction to this fever dream of a movie. Nothing beats a live viewing in a theater with others who are just as enthusiastic to be there. Catch a midnight showing if you can find one. Write a short note saying it is your first time, and hand it to a cast member when you see one. They appreciate little things like that.
Angel, NO! A Rocky Horror virgin should not watch this film alone. It's like drinking fine wine out of a paper cup. This needs to be experienced in a theater during a midnight showing, full of people that have seen it dozens of time. Us weird ones that know the props to bring what to say, and what do to. Don't Dream it. Be it!
I actually watched it alone first, at home, out of curiosity. I didn't love or hate it, but was intrigued and enjoyed the music. Then I went to my first live showing and was hooked!! I probably attended 10 or 12 showings until the shadowcast that came to my town unfortunately stopped coming. But it was a blast dressing up, singing along, and acting crazy with friends. I've dressed up as Columbia, Magenta, Janet, Brad, Eddie, and a Transylvanian. I can't watch any part of this now without thinking of callbacks. 😂
It was written (including the music and lyrics) by Richard O'Brien, who played Riff-Raff. I saw the movie in a theatre in Nice, France in '86 - it was great, especially when they dropped water on the people sitting in the middle seats while Brad & Janet were in the rain 😂 The music is soooooo catchy.
"Little Shop of Horrors" is another great musical horror (not scary) with a great cast! Definitely worth checking out if you haven't already, or even if you have 😂
Rocky's birth tank was originally used in The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958). The castle was a popular location for films like The Brides of Dracula (1962).
This was written by "Riff-Raff", Richard O'Brien". The Red Mark across Meatloafs head was from Frankenfurter giving half of Eddie's Brain to Rocky. Meatloaf was a great singer/songwriter as well! YES, Watch Clue!!!
The motorcycle guy was the legendary Meatloaf! Amazing voice and so many hits back in the 70's 80's. His Bat out of Hell album is fantastic. Sadly he passed away a couple years ago
Oh no! I didn't know he had passed away. RIP. Yes, I has heard of Meatloaf but had no clue that was him until the credits! Thanks for the comment. "Eddie" was one of my favorite characters.
This movie was a super cheap production and many of the actors performed the stage show. Poor old Timbo has has a stroke and isn't in the greatest of health.
Yes, DEFINITELY watch Flash Gordon. It's as bonkers as it is epic. Soundtrack by Queen. Such a good time. Richard O'Brien (Riff Raff) even has a small part in it.
The only way to see Rocky Horror Picture Show is to see it live with an audience and the stage show that goes underneath the movie screen. The movie itself is not that good, it's more about the cult experience of seeing at midnight on a Saturday night. You can look up a scene from the movie Fame where they go see Rocky Horror and it gives you an idea what the phenomenon is all about.
This is my favorite reaction to this movie now. You were clearly completely enjoying yourself. I love how you thought it was gonna be a horror movie - priceless!
You want to see Brad and Janet after this? Wish granted! Shock Treatment (1981). Produced during an Actors Guild strike in the US, so Brad and Janet had to be recast and much of the film scaled down and changed from the original intent, but still…
He played Eddie and Dr. Scott in the stage version. He got the job because he could actually sing "Hot Patootie" cold. He was upset that he wasn't allowed to play Dr. Scott in the film, but I don't think it would have worked in that medium.
I have probably seen RHCP 150-200+ times on random friday and saturday nights at midnight all over southern california. this movie is my jam. the stage performance is what its about, lemme sum up, you are in a room, where hundreds of people are yelling asshole in unison while wearing cosplay and throwing shit like rice.
over the years fans learn to yell funny things at the movie to interact with it, then as fans go from lets say, long beach to pasadena, they bring their jokes with them, and the show evolved over decades of weirdos having a laugh yelling at the movie, dressing up and just basically celebrating de-generacy. it was a glorious time.
watching the end, sounds like lips down on dixie is what we used to experience. cosplayers perform the movie directly under the screen, while audience members (also sometiems in cosplay) interact with them thru rituals passed down year after year
That is so, so AWESOME. I seriously cannot wait to be able to go to a midnight showing! When I do, I'll have to tell you guys all about it. Ohhh! Okay, cool, they perform under the screen?!? Omg. I really can't wait. Thanks for sharing, and as always, for watching and your comments! ❤️
This was a play in England in the late 60's and it was so popular that they did this film. It was a box office bomb, but when they began doing midnight showings, it took off. People went dressed up like the characters and acted it out during the show. It has been going on that way since the 70's. I'm sure you could find one to go to and see what they do.
Back in '87, one little 2 screen theater in the next town over played Rocky Horror every Friday and Saturday night at midnight for the entire summer, and my brother, a friend and I attended almost every showing. That was a great summer. On the flip side, the one time a theater showed it in our town, it was a disaster, the normals didn't get it, some idiot actually lit a roll of toilet paper on fire and threw it, and the whole thing was stopped. During the wedding scene, where the audience brings rice to throw, somebody brought a 50 lb bag of rice, threw some of it, then threw the whole bag across the theater. Some people just can't have nice things.
Our local theater showed it once and didn't know what to expect, and a beer bottle went through the screen. A group of us went to a different normal theater one time, and we actually had the rest of the audience on our side within minutes. They all started yelling at the ushers when they tried to throw us out. Fun times. Pro tip: If you're gonna throw a roll of toilet paper, unroll a bunch of it on your leg, set the roll on top, and throw the whole thing. It makes a long streamer, where just throwing the roll while holding the end doesn't work, it just snaps off.
Best friend and i would watch it with every new boyfriend at least once, I've seen it live and i was part of the stage part of it at a writing camp in high school. There's a screening every Halloween in the town I'm in now, really have to go. It's really hard to pick a favorite song, as you know, but probably Frank iin the elevator, it's such a great entrance. And that voice, too amazing. And my favourite character is probably magenta because she's so fucking hot, but i think i played the other alien woman way back because i thought my outfit was closer. And this is one of my mom's favorite movies and she's 67.
Hi there! So, you should do a little research on this movie, it's very interesting. It began as a play in London. The guy who plays Riff Raff, Richard O'Brien, wrote it. When they were performing, Tim Curry was the original Dr. Frankenfurter and O'Brien played Riff Raff and Magenta and Columbia were also played by the same performers as in the movie. The play was so successful it went to film. When RHPS played in theaters, the audience began shouting out snarky comments and reactions to scenes in the movie, throwing toast when at the dinner table someone says "A toast!" or using newspaper over your head when Janet uses a newspaper to cover her head in the rain, they'd throw rice when the wedding guests threw rice at the married couple, things like that. But unless you've seen it a hundred times, this new generation won't quite understand that part, well, the commenting part. Sometimes the jokes were in bad taste, some were funny. "Hey Riff Raff, show us your mother!" just before Riff Raff opens the coffin when Janet and Brad first arrive at the castle. Fun Fact: Richard O'Brien (Riff Raff) is the voice of Phineas and Ferb's dad, Lawrence Fletcher.
"Rocky" is so good that even after ~50 years, it continues to "do the time warp again". Quite an experience to duck all the stuff thrown around in its midnight theatre showings back in the day (you sheltered yourself with the paper bag in which you'd brought everything you planned to throw).
Someone may have already mentioned this but you have to find a midnight showing of this somewhere. There is audience participation where the audience, in unison, talks back to the movie. There are also things you have to bring. Rice - a newspaper - a water gun - toast and maybe a couple of other things. Not kidding. Sometimes people dress as the characters and act out the movie while it plays.
I saw the stage play in 73 with the original cast just after it had transferred to the Kings Road London in an old building awaiting demolition. Cheap and cheerful production with a torch as the light, tin tray as the thunder, but the live music was amazing. The 'audience' in the movie replicated the play where the action from that scene took place around us. Pretty much a Fringe production that I don't think any of us who saw it and loved it expected it to be still going strong 50 years later.
Something I found fascinating about Tim Curry years after being introduced to him in movies like Annie, Home Alone 2, Rocky Horror, Clue & Ferngully (& the show The Wild Thornberrys) was that he lied on his resume about his acting history/experience. Just think, if he hadn't, we never would've had those great characters (at least as we know them). And yeah, that guy was Meat Loaf (RIP) as Eddie, Columbia's love interest (in the credits, she's referred to as "A Groupie.") And the dancers in that scene, the kinda creepy one with her thick, crimped hair in her face, was one of Richard O'Brien's ex-wives (Kimi Wong); they married in 1972 & performed together under the moniker of Kimi & Ritz, so yeah, he automatically thought of her when they needed dancers for the Time Warp bit. Oh, honey, I know you'd never seen this before but, I'm staggered at how much you missed; yes, they were eating Eddie (hence why Frank said that discussing him was a "tender" subject & why Magenta smirked); yes, they're aliens; no, they're not his children, but they are siblings; they're from the planet Transsexual in the universe (or maybe galaxy) of Transylvania; yes, they were turned into statues. I had to eye roll at parts of your reaction, but I still loved it. Welcome to the Rocky Horror Family, Angel!
I have watched a few of these reaction vids on Rocky Horror and the comments are hilarious. I saw it in 1978 when I was 20 my 1st yr of Uni. The first time I saw it I was shocked and hated it. I have since seen it more than 100 times and still get a kick out of it only now I watch it with my kid and we sing all the songs to it. Watching reactions to the movies I grew up with by the younger generation is so funny-then I think of how I react to movies my parents grew up with-just as funny. Some of those shows and movies just don't work by today's standards. What will future generations think of today's entertainment 30 or 40 yrs from now?
As someone who had played Janet and Frank in the theatre as the film was playing you have to watch it several times to get even half the sight and verbal gags . I have seen this movie in the theater over 150 times and played the characters IN the theater MANY times... I loved playing Frankie... soo much fun and exhausting.
I'm so happy you liked it! This movie has a special place in my heart. I could not look at Tim Curry the same way after that, I don't know how anyone could have done a better job. If you liked this, I would venture to bet you would love a public viewing even more, but it's very VERY interactive, so if you do go, you might want to research and prepare. Every production is a little different and might have different rules. It's a special tradition when presenting a public viewing that there also be a live re-enactment in sync with the movie and one of the most important characters is you. So welcome, as a former TRHPS virgin myself, I can say your first time will be something to remember. Just know, there are tons of folks just like you who relish and revere the music, performance, counterculture, campy style, and greater community of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. We look forward to your attendance and, par-ti-ci...pation. 🤩
Other than Rocky Horror & Clue, there are three films every Tim Curry fan should see: 1. Legend (1985), also starring Tom Cruise in one of his first films, 2. The Hunt for Red October (1990), also a key film for about a dozen A-listers including Sean Connery, and 3. The Three Musketeers (1993).
That outro with the Angel tree topper made me think about the one I discovered this year that I want for next year. The alien from "They Live" as an angel holding a sign that says "CONSUME". I wish there was a way to link photos here, but TH-cam edits them out. I'm sure you can search it on the webz.
Back when theaters had midnight Saturday showings of this where fans would dress up as characters and use props at specific moments in the movie, my brother and his wife would go almost every week for a long time. I went with them once because I'd never seen it. It was wild. People all singing along, saying lines with the actors, throwing rice, toast, using squirt guns, just nuts. 😎
See this in a theatre with a bunch of fans. Really, the only way. Hard to believe that I've been dancing and singing along to this film for almost fifty years. Such a rich experience. So go see it with others in a theatre.
I think everyone has the same response to Tim Curry in this film.. "I knew he was good, but.."🤯😂❤️ Can we just remember the same guy brought us Pennywise the clown!? That man!!❤❤❤😂
OK, so yeah for something you might not have noticed. When the movie cuts to the narrator there is a projected image of the church Brad and Janet were at that has Tim Curry circled and an arrow pointing at him.
A quirky movie Tim Curry is in, playing a character named Darkness, is Legend. Released in 1985, it stars a young Tom Cruise. It is a movie that not a lot have seen, but one that I quite enjoyed.
Really enjoyed that, glad you enjoyed it too, one of the best movies ever. I'm sure you have caught up on a lot of the background since. I used to enjoy our local cinema's monthly Saturday midnight showing, this was in Edinburgh in Scotland around 1984/85, we used to go in full costume (I made a good Riff-Raff if I do say so) and we would go in with a bag full of props, newspaper, water pistols, rice, toast, all to be used at the appropriate moments (eventually they banned the props because of the mess) and we all used to run up onto the stage in front of the screen to do the Time Warp... I've seen this film hundreds of times.
It’s pretty accurate to the original stage play. The play opens with “Science Fiction Double Feature” sung by an usherette (this part is doubled with Magenta). Eddie and Dr Scott are also played by the same actor. Meatloaf was apparently disappointed that he was only to play Eddie in the film. Other differences are that Sweet Transvestite and Time Warp are in reverse order in the play; and Brad has his own song (“Once in a While”) when he has done the dirty with Frank. This was removed from the film for pacing reasons in the final edit. It can be found on this platform in pretty crap quality, if you want to check it out.
It was a London fringe play, written by Richard O'Brien (aka Riff-Raff.) The women who came to watch was surprised how attracted they were to Frankenfurter (Tim Curry.) So no surprise there. It's now a cultural phenonema, the audiences dressing up as cast characters. I'm quite dull, so I dressed up as Brad. Edit: If you want to watch an even more famous fringe movie, then the only option is "Phantom of the Paradise." You can also visit the castle, now a hotel. Stay there overnight.
"Hot Patootie bless my soul, I really love that rock & roll..." And yes, he (he being Eddie) was in a ice/freezer room - Incredibly though, he wasn't dead... Incredibly because the reason he was in the freezer-thing, is that Frankenfurter (presumably after drugging him unconcious) took half his brain to put into Rocky to bring him to life. Don't remember what else you asked... I've been writing this message for about an hour, an hour and a half; I'm half asleep and keep nodding off only to startle awake when my chin hits my chest or I lean too far to one side... Eh, got sidetracked again; Both in forgetting to write (or think for that matter) because of fatigue (/exhaustion) and in going on a tangent when I was writing. Anyway, I hope that helped answer at least some of your questions & confusion. Gx
Omg! Love love love Tim Curry! And this is were my love affair started with him! I was 16 yrs old and to young to go (rated R), my brother snuck me in and my parents were so anger with my brother but not me. 😅 I went to this movie at least 50 times. The midnight show was so fun. People dressed like the characters, the physical props that were thrown and the whole audience singing every word! Best experience still to this day! I’m 61 now and absolutely loved this reaction! Glad you liked it! 😍🥰
Oh PS - the guy who plays Riff Raff (the blonde "butler" type guy) is Richard O'Brien, the man who wrote the musical stage version, the screenplay for the film, and a lot of the music for them. Incredibly talented (and somewhat warped...in a good way) guy.
Ummm. That's incredible!!!!
Hahaha I like how you call him the butler type guy when he's the butler. That's like calling a police officer the cop like guy
The follow up, "Shock Treatment" wasn't so good.
I kept meaning to mention that. He's amazing 🤩
@@PickleBread355 He's also in Flash Gordon
Tim Curry starred in the original stage show. This movie also has the longest run in cinema history, I think it might be playing midnight shows.
Pandemic aside, RHPS played on the midnight movie circuit and saved a lot of small independently owned theaters from closing across the country. Tim Curry has had theater owners thank him personally.
Oh wow!! I love that. I would have loved to have seen him in the original stage show. This is cool info; thank you!
@@AngelGroves i realize this is like a year old at this point, but if you can find a regular/weekly midnight showing, it's such a different experience than watching the movie alone. i don't want to say more than that lol
I was Dr. Frankenfurter at a high school dance....damn right I won first prize for costume. It's all in the legs, Hunny 😁😀😎
YESSSS. I can't tell you how happy this comment made me. :) Well, done.
@@AngelGrovesWhat did you say about Tim Curry at that moment? ( 11:19) It sounded like you said he's a fit or something...
What was it you called him?
And what does it mean?
Argh!!
I can't get my damn comment to have both a link to your name to notify you of it, AND the time stamp so you know which moment I'm talking about.
Anyway, I'll copy and paste the comment here so you don't have to go searching for it. Hopefully it works.
Could you please answer my question? I'm quite curious about what you said.
Great video,
Cheers,
Gx
@@guybrewin556 Hi! I just re-watched that part, to double check. I said "He's so fit". "Fit" meaning in good shape/ physically fit. :) Thanks for the comment!
This movie came out in 1975, the year I graduated high school and began my University studies. I believe I first saw this in 1976 at a small independent little theater. Even then there was audience participation like throwing rice and toast. Maybe 10% of the audience wore costumes. And some brought liquor, or smoking herbs. It was a great movie and experience.
Fun Fact:
Those iconic lips at the beginning belong to Patricia Quinn (Magenta), but that's not her voice. In the original stage version of Rocky Horror, the opening number was sung by the Usherette, a character that is traditionally played by the same actor who plays Magenta.
The vocals on ‘Science Fiction, Double Feature’ are in fact those of Rocky Horror creator…..Riff Raff himself, Richard O’Brien.
You must go to an actual performance of Rocky Horror…..it’s an experience that’s not to be missed!!!
In 2016, Curry played The Criminologist in the television film remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Patricia Quinn's reaction to discovering Richard was doing the vocals for the version in the intro was, apparently, "That BASTARD stole my song!"
Also, almost every line of the opening credit song is a reference to a classic science fiction movie.
Tim Curry has always had an uncanny knack for turning up where you least expect him. He was Darkness in Ridley Scott's Legend, Pennywise in the 1990 TV movie version of Stephen King's IT, and the voice of Captain Hook in the 90's Fox Kids animated series, Peter Pan and The Pirates. As Tim would say, "don't dream it, be it."
he was also in the Worst Witch tv series as the grand high wizard, In ferngully as hexxus, in the film Kongo, in the Video game command and conquer, voice actor in dragon age origins so many
I can't believe I forgot about IT!!! Wow.
He also was Nigel Thornberry. It's very strange that I remember him most for IT, Rocky Horror, and Thornberries, because none of them are anything alike.
Lol... he also had a top 40 pop hit called The Rock... He's quite the guy.
My first and favorite Tim Curry role was as "Darkness" in LEGEND with Tom Cruise and Mia Sara. A must see if you haven't. Parts of it may qualify for your intro to scary movies.
Meatloaf was an amazing performer. He was a rock star, actor and performing artist. Check out some of his live performances. His songs are kind of like mini musicals.
I definitely will! Thanks! Loved him.
@@AngelGroves You could start with "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"
than go over to "I would do anything for love" (The extended Version) and than .... well, basicaly everything from Bat out of Hell is great !
one of the biggest artist´s of recent... may he Rest in Peace....
Check him out screaming at Gary Busey in later years!
For pure acting, check out Marvin (Meat Loaf) in "Fight Club", alongside Edward Norton and Brad Pitt.
I love seing people that know nothing (or allmost nothing) react to this movie. When you started talking about this as a real horror movie i knew i was in for a good time.
Tim Curry was 28 when he did this film , and the guy on the motorcycle is the late , Michael Lee Aday , stage name was meatloaf , he had several hits back in the day !
I was years behind most of my friends when I finally discovered RHPS. From what I'd heard, I thought the whole premise sounded really dumb, and I refused to watch it all the way through high school. Then when I was 19, I got dragged to a midnight showing by a group of friends, and I absolutely loved every minute of it. I haven't made it through a single year since without watching it at least once, and I'm quickly approaching my 43rd birthday.
Just because a movie is dumb doesnt make it bad. Glad you finally watched it, everyone needs to in their lifetime... Hope you know to not judge too harshly for other amazingly potential movies you come across. Happy watching!
Rocky Horror is very much a participatory experience. there's a local cast who mirror the screen action & the audience fills in any pauses in dialog or song lyrics with a series of ever-changing call-&-responses which can get pretty elaborate. a couple simple examples: whenever the narrator appears, shout out "wipe that ass off your chin"; whenever Brad asks for a phone, shout "castles don't have phones, asshole!". & the more dedicated among them bring along props to use & sometimes throw at the screen (subject to management approval) rice at the wedding, a newspaper to cover your head in the rain, some sort of light to turn on during There's a Light, you get the idea. it's a thing you need to experience at least once.
All the Narrator got from the audiences I saw this with was "BORING!!" I literally never heard Charles Gray say a word.
Best audience bit:
FRANK (seducing Brad): It's no crime to give yourself over to pleasure.
AUDIENCE: It is in Massachusetts!
(As, back in 1980, homosexual intercourse *was* a criminal act ["sodomy"] in many states. Indeed, many states, including Georgia, still have sodomy laws on the books; they've just been unenforceable since the Supreme Court ruled those laws invalid in "Lawrence v. Texas" in 2003. In the anti-abortion decision last summer, Clarence Thomas indicated that the Court was open to overturning "Lawrence", so the "good old days" might be coming back…sigh.)
My 1st experience with it was in a theater with a cast on the stage in front of the screen and an audience who knew beat for beat what to do. I feel blessed it wasn't sitting alone watching it on a tv haha
When I was watching, the Narrator got “where’s your fucking neck?!” every time he appeared.
When I went to see it live (in the UK), every time anybody said "Brad Majors" everyone shouted "Asshole", every time they said "Janet Weiss" everyone shouted "Slut".
The other thing I remember is during the storm scene at the beginning, everyone shouted "Describe your plums!", following which the narrator lifted the front of his jacket and intoned "Dark, heavy, and pendulous".
One of the times I saw it, Jason Donovan was playing Frank (that was the 25th anniversary year), which I was concerned about prior to watching (as it's pretty far from the neighbours character and singer that was all I knew him from), but he was excellent in it.
We had "This man has no neck" for the narrator's appearance, then as one of the cast jumped up with arms together "fuck that chin, fuck that chin". I love how different locations and different times had different call outs.
You have the advantage of several decades of the awareness of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I was a young airman in 1980, stationed in England, and had not yet seen or heard of RHPS. I was sitting in my room in the dorm one day, bored out of my mind. At the base theater, there was some “horror” movie playing. I wasn’t interested in that genre, but was so desperate for some diversion that I decided to go see it anyway. My innocent young mind was totally unprepared for what was to come.
When the screen lit up with those red lips singing about old science fiction movies, I thought “this is really a strange beginning for a horror movie”. Then when Brad and Janet started singing after the wedding, I thought “oh no, not a musical horror movie” I hated both genres. And it was CHEEZY! At their arrival at the castle I thought “ok, this is where it will start getting creepy”. The initial appearance of Riff Raff confirmed my suspicion. Then the music started again and I was, “wait, this is getting interesting”! With the Time Warp, I knew that this wasn’t going to be your average horror movie. I was filled with apprehension when I saw the elevator descending behind Brad and Janet. Frankenfurter then stepped out in his black robe. When he threw off his robe and revealed himself in a corset, garter belt, fishnet hose and high heels I was shocked! I was a young straight man and this made me very uneasy! But as I watched more I found myself curiously enjoying both the story and the music. After it was over I left the theater thinking “what the hell was that!” I didn’t know that, by that time, there was already a huge cult following of the movie. The base theater didn’t encourage audience participation, and with an audience of primarily military people, I don’t think many appreciated it.
I didn’t think about it for several years after that, but in 1989 I took my new wife and stepson for their first experience. They were instant cultists! I later made costumes of the Riff Raff and Magenta space suits for my wife and myself to attend showings.
Sadly, we divorced later, but now I have a different wife, and we have a different connection to the RHPS culture. We are both transgender women! “I’m just a sweet transvestite from Transexual Transylvania -a-a-a!”
You're right. It started out as a legit musical - "The Rocky Horror Show" in 1973 in London, and a cleaned-up version came to LA where Meatloaf joined the cast, playing the dual roles of Dr. Scott and Eddie. He supposedly got the job because he was the only one who could sing all the words in Hot Patootie. The film, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," came out in 1975, but didn't fare well. It landed on the midnight movie circuit, including the Waverly Theater, here in NYC. It was there that the movie became a phenomenon when viewers began coming in costume as the characters, acting out the show, coming up with witty comebacks that fit into the movies many pregnant pauses ("What Meatloaf again?), and bringing props for key moments (water guns and newspaper for the rain scene, toilet paper when they shout "Great Scott!" and such). Soon word spread and the film became a classic.
The film also holds an important place in LBGTQ+ history as being a major milestone in brining gay culture to the mainstream, if not through the side door (note, I did not say backdoor). Many youth who couldn't express themselves fully came to RHPS and embraced the theme "don't dream it, be it."
Tim Curry was brilliant as The Darkness in the movie Legend (with Tom Cruise and Mia Sara)
He was great but the makeup on him was just as good!
@@3DJapan yes indeed
Patricia Quinn (Magenta) is my homegirl, and a really cool lady. She totally embraces the cult of this movie. The other thing I mostly remember her from is I Claudius, one of the best TV series ever and a who's who of iconic British actors.
I love how unapologetically unique and over-the-top this movie is.
Here's the scoop on Rocky Horror. They use to play the movie, and while it was playing a cast would act it out in front of the theater. The audience would dress up as their favorite characters. And the audience would do audience participation with the film. It was like mad movies. The audience knew every line in the movie, so they'd make jokes and punchlines out of the dialogue in the movie. The audience also referred to certain characters by derogatory names, for instance whenever the film referred to Janet the audience would say "slut", and every time it referred to Brad the audience would say "asshole". Some theaters use to allow the audience to do things like throw rice during the wedding scene at the beginning of the movie and squirt squirt guns during the raining scene, as well as throw hot dogs (frankenfurters) whenever Dr. Frankenfurters name was mentioned. Most theaters did not allow the audience to throw things though because of the mess. I used to play Dr. Frankenfurter in a local theater back in the late 80's. It was great!
It was like a silly fun cos play midnight picture show party at your local theater. And afterwards the cast and some audience would get together at Denny's.
I love that you mentioned the Denny's. Such fun times!
You need to watch The Little Shop of Horrors. It's a very similar Musical experience. Different story, but fun and suspenseful in spots. The photography and lyrics and music are all phenomenal, just like Rocky Horror.
Every Saturday night at midnight we did the RHPS experience. Gen X just stands out as the best generation of music, film & entertainment in general. If you ever get a chance at a live screening.. GO!
"Are they aliens?" They dropped a hint right before that, though it's easy to miss because they don't dwell on it. ("You know this Earthling?")
I noticed that during editing!!! I was like "oh my gosh, Angel!" haha. Thanks for your comment!
3:25 - This song is a tribute to classic sci-fi movies. A lot of the lyrics are old movie titles. A few of them are The Day The Earth Stood Still, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula, Trifid, Runes, and When Worlds Collide.
4:45 - Now would be a good time to mention that this film is considered the classic Midnight Movie. Theaters all over the country hold regular showings where enthusiastic fans will come in costume to enjoy the film together. There is even a tradition of calling out reactions to certain cues in the movie (for example, every time someone in the film says 'Damn it!' the audience calls out 'JANET!' or vice-versa). There's actually several different call-back scripts you can find online.
4:47 - ...TO DEATH!
19:40 - This is Eddie. He's more of a plot device than a character. More importantly, this is Meatloaf, legendary rocker of the 70s and 80s. Some of his most famous songs are Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad and I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That).
27:09 - OH, YEAH!!!
38:58 - Looks like you watched the American version. This version cuts out almost the entire last song. If you can find the British version, the whole song is intact. Here's a link to the full ending: th-cam.com/video/yjc-I-parYs/w-d-xo.html
"I only know Tim Curry from The Wild Thornberries"
.....'scuse me while I crumble to dust in the corner. There's SO much more and better things that he's done.
Me and my friends in HS used to go see this some Friday & Saturdsy nights at midnight at an old theater in a nearby town (this was in the late 80s). So many fond memories. And I still have the soundtrack on CD (which b is amazing). My favorite song on the soundtrack is "I'm Going Home" from the end of the movie. Curry's vocals are so moving and full of feeling & passion in that song.
First, that's so cool. I can only imagine the fondness of those memories! Also, that's my favorite song too!!!! After re-watching it during editing, and getting to listen to all the songs again/watch the performances again, that song and his performance is my favorite in the movie. It is beyond beautiful. I couldn't agree more about how you can feel Tim Curry's passion. Thank you for this comment!
We used to have a monthly showing at a theatre in town and it was a big night out for the punks, straights and gays.
@@AngelGroves You really owe it to yourself to try to find a theater where they have a "shadow cast". The audience experience makes this film just so much fun. In the wedding scene people would throw rice in the theater, when they are out in the rain people pull out newspaper and other such reactions. Also the audience talks back to the scene and adds a lot of humor to the whole experience.
@@GKinslayer - Cards, toast, confetti, balloons popped with joints to make explosion sounds. My gang used to go the Roxy Theater on Danforth in Toronto, and the rumor was that Alice Cooper lived upstairs.
@GKinslayer we used to bring bags of stuff (props) to the midnight showings. Lol. Toast, rice, water guns (for the rain), etc. Our theater had midnight showings every Friday & saturdsy night. Sometimes we'd go both nights. It was a great time. I've probably seen this movie 200 times. Lol. I still own the soundtrack on CD and the songs so.etimes come up on shuffle when I'm in the car. Always brings back such nostalgic memories.
You need to watch this movie in a theater where peeps dress up as their fav characters, scream at the screen and throw rice, toast, spray water, etc. LOTS of fun.
26:11 ......."You know this Earthling??"
The jig.......and the plot......is up.
Meatloaf had parts in numerous movies over the years aside from his music career. You should check him out in Fight Club, he’s awesome in it.
A patron mentioned he was in Fight Club! I haven't seen it in so, so long and completely forgot he was in it. Thank you!!!
" This is Bob. Bob had b**** tits "
It's so funny that he had just lost all his weight when they started filming that movie because they had to build a fat suit for him. They didn't have a clue he'd do that.
He was also young Jack Black’s father in Tenacious D and the pic of Destiny. That was another singing role. It may have been his last singing role in a movie. I’m not 100% sure on that though.
Pick of Destiny the beginning song he is great
Two Fun Facts: 1. there was a little known sequel to Rocky Horror, called Shock treatment, and 2. there was a remake a couple f years ago, starring Laverne Cox as Frank N. Furter, Adam Lambert as Eddie, and Tim Curry (post stroke) as the Criminologist.
If you want more Tim Curry singing, he's in Muppet Treasure Island
I feel for anyone that never experienced the midnight screenings this had for years, it’s an experience that cannot be appreciated without actually being there.
The dressing up, dancing, audience interaction, props and so much more are crazy good fun.
It’s a great film but is made so much better with full participation of an audience That totally love the film and the midnight cinema experience
They still have late night screenings with shadowcasts! The only changes is no water guns and no rice. Don't want to damage the theater and cause too much trouble cleaning up after.
When I was much younger, we use to go to the local theatre on Friday night, at 11.30pm to watch this. People would get all dressed up as their favourite characters & you could put your name in a hat at the theatre for a chance to act out the movie as it was being displayed on the screen. So much fun. Two nights ago, in our city, I went to see a stage production of this show. Bought back so many memories. Was a great night
In Orlando, as I'm sure they do elsewhere, this movie is played on a screen while local actors act out the parts live. It used to be a thing we'd do before
Yesss! I think they do that here in Georgia (in Atlanta) also! That;s really cool. Thanks for letting me know!
The theater I used to go see it at in the 80s and 90s was organizing a floor show and I was asked to be Eddie. Unfortunately between college, work, and the metal band I was in there was no way I would have had the time for rehearsals.
Oh so many places do it. Midnight showings have actually kept some small cinemas in business over the years.
Do they still do "virgin letters"? (If it's your first time at a show your friends write a note with your name and slip it to the cast. Before the show starts they call the "virgins" up to the front and have a little fun with them.
@@Deathbird_Mitch they did last time I was there, that's been a while but probably.
😂 the beginning of the movie, watching how you keep expecting an actual horror movie is hysterical
Tim Curry is in one of the most fun Tales From the Crypt episodes where he plays a family of hillbillies.. using lot of makeup and camera trickery.. also Curry's knack for character acting.. it's called Death of Some Salesman.
The actor playing The Butler ("Riff Raff") is the writer and director Richard O'Brian ..
Probably one the very rare examples of a musical were every song is great.
That initial scene were Riff Raff is singing from the window with the lightning and the range of his voice is just sheer cinematic excellence.
Love this movie.
I couldn't agree any more. You're the first person to mention that scene. LOVE it!
Brilliant movie/ performances.
they cut from one version the Superheroes Song, where brad and janet were crawling there was a song there but its not in the US version
The Riff Raff in the current UK touring cast is absolutely amazing. Tons of slips on here, take a peek.
@@backtoearth1983 Yes Kristian Laverrcombe takes Riff Raff to a new level, a good one though.
@@Greenwood4727 There is also a song that Brad sings on the bed when he is racked with guilt called Once In A While ... I cannot understand why they cut it as it is full of emotion that turns the story around but maybe that was why they cut it ?
Tim Curry has actually released a few albums in late 70s and they're on TH-cam if you're interested. This was a pleasant surprise for sure and I absolutely loved this reaction!!! It was perfect that you didn't know much going in. Thank you🙂🙂🙂
You should see if you can find a midnight showing of this, where everyone in the audience participates. There's a tons of parts where the audience interacts with the movie.
I cannot wait!
Do not wear anything delicate.. and maybe a raincoat..😂😂
Interesting fact, Meatloaf said when came to the studio to shoot his scene for this film, he was actually pretty young, in his late teens, early twenties. He wandered onto the lot and the scene they were shooting at the time was the rest of the main cast up on the stage in stockings, and he wasn't sure what he'd gotten himself into.
Wrong, he was in the stage play in los Angeles before the movie and it was there that during rehearsal that he was suddenly upset about what he had gotten himself into. He has spoken about this numerous times. He was in the Roxy cast in 1974 when Tim Curry and the play came over from England. Obviously he got over his misgivings because he then did the movie and then the short Broadway run .
I was in my early teens when this movie came out. Every year, on Halloween, a few local theatres would show it, with full audience participation. It was still being done well into the 1990's, but I'm not sure if it still happening. It's so nice to see new generations enjoying this awesome show and I love the fact that you "get it". ! Listen to the soundtrack as well!
Oh, nice! That's cool you were in your eaely teens when it came out, and yeah, I keep hearing about the live audience participation! Yesss, I have been listening to the soundtrack so much since watching! Incredible.
Thanks so much for this comment!
Pandemic aside, it's still happening.
LATE COMMENT: This is the guiltiest of guilty pleasures. It's a movie you need to watch about 10 times to catch all the little elements that make it so great. In the opening the lips were Pat Quinn's (Magenta, the Domestic) but the voice was Richard O'Brien's (Riff Raff), and it does help to know the old science fiction movies of the 30's - 70's. It is a real bummer that so much of the music due to copyright rules.
Tim Curry has a killer voice. For example, he played the big devil/demon in Legend, which really showed off his voice. Killer soundtrack in that movie also.
This is a salute to horror, sci-fi & rock n roll.
My introduction to this movie was in the mid '80s during my university years. Annually, around Halloween time, the local cinema would have midnight showings featuring "full audience participation". People would dress as their favorite characters and line up around the block hours in advance. The cinema also sold "goodie bags" with all of the typical "participation props" (i.e. rice, newspaper, squirt gun, hot dog, etc.) I became such a fan that I bought a book on the history of the stage play and how it was made into the movie. The book also contained many of the standard audience participation lines. My DVD copy of the movie has the option to play with or without audience participation banter.
This was a perfect reaction to this fever dream of a movie. Nothing beats a live viewing in a theater with others who are just as enthusiastic to be there. Catch a midnight showing if you can find one. Write a short note saying it is your first time, and hand it to a cast member when you see one. They appreciate little things like that.
Bahahaha
Angel, NO! A Rocky Horror virgin should not watch this film alone. It's like drinking fine wine out of a paper cup. This needs to be experienced in a theater during a midnight showing, full of people that have seen it dozens of time. Us weird ones that know the props to bring what to say, and what do to. Don't Dream it. Be it!
Ish. I can see the up side of having seen it before, so that you're not struggling to hear / figure out what the audience is reacting to.
I actually watched it alone first, at home, out of curiosity. I didn't love or hate it, but was intrigued and enjoyed the music. Then I went to my first live showing and was hooked!! I probably attended 10 or 12 showings until the shadowcast that came to my town unfortunately stopped coming. But it was a blast dressing up, singing along, and acting crazy with friends. I've dressed up as Columbia, Magenta, Janet, Brad, Eddie, and a Transylvanian. I can't watch any part of this now without thinking of callbacks. 😂
I didn't know! haha I really can't wait to go to a live showing, now!
Rocky Horror Picture Show was a play on stage in ENGLAND!
It was written (including the music and lyrics) by Richard O'Brien, who played Riff-Raff.
I saw the movie in a theatre in Nice, France in '86 - it was great, especially when they dropped water on the people sitting in the middle seats while Brad & Janet were in the rain 😂
The music is soooooo catchy.
Absolutely one of the best movies ever.💖
"Little Shop of Horrors" is another great musical horror (not scary) with a great cast! Definitely worth checking out if you haven't already, or even if you have 😂
Tim Curry: he is *AMAZING* -- and yeah, every one of his expressions/moves/turns-of-phrase are meme-worthy... lol
Rocky's birth tank was originally used in The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958). The castle was a popular location for films like The Brides of Dracula (1962).
This was the beginning of all their careers. It’s the greatest Cult Movie ever.
This was written by "Riff-Raff", Richard O'Brien".
The Red Mark across Meatloafs head was from Frankenfurter giving half of Eddie's Brain to Rocky.
Meatloaf was a great singer/songwriter as well!
YES, Watch Clue!!!
The motorcycle guy was the legendary Meatloaf! Amazing voice and so many hits back in the 70's 80's. His Bat out of Hell album is fantastic. Sadly he passed away a couple years ago
Oh no! I didn't know he had passed away. RIP. Yes, I has heard of Meatloaf but had no clue that was him until the credits! Thanks for the comment. "Eddie" was one of my favorite characters.
So they had meatloaf for dinner ;)
This movie was a super cheap production and many of the actors performed the stage show.
Poor old Timbo has has a stroke and isn't in the greatest of health.
What? Meatloaf again??
Meat Loaf was also in Hair - and yes, he did get the bonus for going au natural.
Yes, DEFINITELY watch Flash Gordon. It's as bonkers as it is epic. Soundtrack by Queen. Such a good time. Richard O'Brien (Riff Raff) even has a small part in it.
The only way to see Rocky Horror Picture Show is to see it live with an audience and the stage show that goes underneath the movie screen. The movie itself is not that good, it's more about the cult experience of seeing at midnight on a Saturday night. You can look up a scene from the movie Fame where they go see Rocky Horror and it gives you an idea what the phenomenon is all about.
I am SO excited to see it live, after reading all of these comments. Thank you!!
Rocky Horror started as a play in West London, the Rocky Horror Show. some of the play's cast including the lead Tm Curry also appear in the film.
One of my favorite Tim Curry performances is him as the linguistics teacher for Sylvester Stallone in the comedy, Oscar.
This is my favorite reaction to this movie now. You were clearly completely enjoying yourself. I love how you thought it was gonna be a horror movie - priceless!
You want to see Brad and Janet after this? Wish granted! Shock Treatment (1981). Produced during an Actors Guild strike in the US, so Brad and Janet had to be recast and much of the film scaled down and changed from the original intent, but still…
Totally agree. I think shock treatment is very underappreciated and is a ton of fun
Oh, that's awesome! Thank you! Adding it to the list. :)
Such a sad loss when meatloaf passing away last year such a great singer
He played Eddie and Dr. Scott in the stage version. He got the job because he could actually sing "Hot Patootie" cold. He was upset that he wasn't allowed to play Dr. Scott in the film, but I don't think it would have worked in that medium.
I didn't know he had passed, until reading the comments. :( RIP.
I have probably seen RHCP 150-200+ times on random friday and saturday nights at midnight all over southern california. this movie is my jam. the stage performance is what its about, lemme sum up, you are in a room, where hundreds of people are yelling asshole in unison while wearing cosplay and throwing shit like rice.
over the years fans learn to yell funny things at the movie to interact with it, then as fans go from lets say, long beach to pasadena, they bring their jokes with them, and the show evolved over decades of weirdos having a laugh yelling at the movie, dressing up and just basically celebrating de-generacy. it was a glorious time.
watching the end, sounds like lips down on dixie is what we used to experience. cosplayers perform the movie directly under the screen, while audience members (also sometiems in cosplay) interact with them thru rituals passed down year after year
That is so, so AWESOME. I seriously cannot wait to be able to go to a midnight showing! When I do, I'll have to tell you guys all about it.
Ohhh! Okay, cool, they perform under the screen?!? Omg. I really can't wait. Thanks for sharing, and as always, for watching and your comments! ❤️
This was a play in England in the late 60's and it was so popular that they did this film. It was a box office bomb, but when they began doing midnight showings, it took off. People went dressed up like the characters and acted it out during the show. It has been going on that way since the 70's. I'm sure you could find one to go to and see what they do.
Not the sixties. Early seventies upstairs in the smaller theatre at the Royal Court theatre.
The show opened in June 1973
Tim Curry has made a statement in this movie...I own this role...there is no other who could own it....and I am going to enjoy it.....
Back in '87, one little 2 screen theater in the next town over played Rocky Horror every Friday and Saturday night at midnight for the entire summer, and my brother, a friend and I attended almost every showing. That was a great summer. On the flip side, the one time a theater showed it in our town, it was a disaster, the normals didn't get it, some idiot actually lit a roll of toilet paper on fire and threw it, and the whole thing was stopped. During the wedding scene, where the audience brings rice to throw, somebody brought a 50 lb bag of rice, threw some of it, then threw the whole bag across the theater. Some people just can't have nice things.
Our local theater showed it once and didn't know what to expect, and a beer bottle went through the screen. A group of us went to a different normal theater one time, and we actually had the rest of the audience on our side within minutes. They all started yelling at the ushers when they tried to throw us out. Fun times.
Pro tip: If you're gonna throw a roll of toilet paper, unroll a bunch of it on your leg, set the roll on top, and throw the whole thing. It makes a long streamer, where just throwing the roll while holding the end doesn't work, it just snaps off.
Tim curry in Hunt for Red October. Small part. But when he says"captain?" It's magic.
Best friend and i would watch it with every new boyfriend at least once, I've seen it live and i was part of the stage part of it at a writing camp in high school. There's a screening every Halloween in the town I'm in now, really have to go.
It's really hard to pick a favorite song, as you know, but probably Frank iin the elevator, it's such a great entrance. And that voice, too amazing. And my favourite character is probably magenta because she's so fucking hot, but i think i played the other alien woman way back because i thought my outfit was closer.
And this is one of my mom's favorite movies and she's 67.
Seek thee now a live performance of this. The cast and audience participation add exponentially.
I love this movie. I first saw it in high school in the late 1970s with full audience participation. Good times! Love your reaction.
"Dammit Janet" is something I absolutely hum regularly, especially when I meet someone named Janet.
Hi there! So, you should do a little research on this movie, it's very interesting. It began as a play in London. The guy who plays Riff Raff, Richard O'Brien, wrote it. When they were performing, Tim Curry was the original Dr. Frankenfurter and O'Brien played Riff Raff and Magenta and Columbia were also played by the same performers as in the movie. The play was so successful it went to film. When RHPS played in theaters, the audience began shouting out snarky comments and reactions to scenes in the movie, throwing toast when at the dinner table someone says "A toast!" or using newspaper over your head when Janet uses a newspaper to cover her head in the rain, they'd throw rice when the wedding guests threw rice at the married couple, things like that. But unless you've seen it a hundred times, this new generation won't quite understand that part, well, the commenting part. Sometimes the jokes were in bad taste, some were funny. "Hey Riff Raff, show us your mother!" just before Riff Raff opens the coffin when Janet and Brad first arrive at the castle.
Fun Fact: Richard O'Brien (Riff Raff) is the voice of Phineas and Ferb's dad, Lawrence Fletcher.
"Rocky" is so good that even after ~50 years, it continues to "do the time warp again". Quite an experience to duck all the stuff thrown around in its midnight theatre showings back in the day (you sheltered yourself with the paper bag in which you'd brought everything you planned to throw).
YES!!!
I watched this movie on CBS Sunday Night Movie in 2000, and I have been a fan ever since!
Someone may have already mentioned this but you have to find a midnight showing of this somewhere. There is audience participation where the audience, in unison, talks back to the movie. There are also things you have to bring. Rice - a newspaper - a water gun - toast and maybe a couple of other things. Not kidding. Sometimes people dress as the characters and act out the movie while it plays.
I saw the stage play in 73 with the original cast just after it had transferred to the Kings Road London in an old building awaiting demolition. Cheap and cheerful production with a torch as the light, tin tray as the thunder, but the live music was amazing. The 'audience' in the movie replicated the play where the action from that scene took place around us. Pretty much a Fringe production that I don't think any of us who saw it and loved it expected it to be still going strong 50 years later.
"that's the guy they were going to see. Why would they be there.?" Because sweet Angel 😇 It WAS an EXTRAORDINARY coincidence.
Something I found fascinating about Tim Curry years after being introduced to him in movies like Annie, Home Alone 2, Rocky Horror, Clue & Ferngully (& the show The Wild Thornberrys) was that he lied on his resume about his acting history/experience. Just think, if he hadn't, we never would've had those great characters (at least as we know them).
And yeah, that guy was Meat Loaf (RIP) as Eddie, Columbia's love interest (in the credits, she's referred to as "A Groupie.") And the dancers in that scene, the kinda creepy one with her thick, crimped hair in her face, was one of Richard O'Brien's ex-wives (Kimi Wong); they married in 1972 & performed together under the moniker of Kimi & Ritz, so yeah, he automatically thought of her when they needed dancers for the Time Warp bit.
Oh, honey, I know you'd never seen this before but, I'm staggered at how much you missed; yes, they were eating Eddie (hence why Frank said that discussing him was a "tender" subject & why Magenta smirked); yes, they're aliens; no, they're not his children, but they are siblings; they're from the planet Transsexual in the universe (or maybe galaxy) of Transylvania; yes, they were turned into statues. I had to eye roll at parts of your reaction, but I still loved it. Welcome to the Rocky Horror Family, Angel!
I have watched a few of these reaction vids on Rocky Horror and the comments are hilarious. I saw it in 1978 when I was 20 my 1st yr of Uni. The first time I saw it I was shocked and hated it. I have since seen it more than 100 times and still get a kick out of it only now I watch it with my kid and we sing all the songs to it. Watching reactions to the movies I grew up with by the younger generation is so funny-then I think of how I react to movies my parents grew up with-just as funny. Some of those shows and movies just don't work by today's standards. What will future generations think of today's entertainment 30 or 40 yrs from now?
years and years and years of Rocky productions and viewings of the movie. I was doing callbacks for sure
As someone who had played Janet and Frank in the theatre as the film was playing you have to watch it several times to get even half the sight and verbal gags . I have seen this movie in the theater over 150 times and played the characters IN the theater MANY times... I loved playing Frankie... soo much fun and exhausting.
Tim's album Simplicity was pretty good. He had 3 solo albums during the mid to late 70s. Sloe Gin from Read My Lips, is dark but delicious!
Tim Curry as "Pennywise" in the TV version of "IT" is something scary and a great performance.
If I had to describe the Rocky Horror Picture Show in one word it's "fun". From start to finish this is always a delight to watch
I'm so happy you liked it! This movie has a special place in my heart. I could not look at Tim Curry the same way after that, I don't know how anyone could have done a better job. If you liked this, I would venture to bet you would love a public viewing even more, but it's very VERY interactive, so if you do go, you might want to research and prepare. Every production is a little different and might have different rules. It's a special tradition when presenting a public viewing that there also be a live re-enactment in sync with the movie and one of the most important characters is you. So welcome, as a former TRHPS virgin myself, I can say your first time will be something to remember. Just know, there are tons of folks just like you who relish and revere the music, performance, counterculture, campy style, and greater community of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. We look forward to your attendance and, par-ti-ci...pation. 🤩
LOL your face at 11:10 😄
Other than Rocky Horror & Clue, there are three films every Tim Curry fan should see:
1. Legend (1985), also starring Tom Cruise in one of his first films,
2. The Hunt for Red October (1990), also a key film for about a dozen A-listers including Sean Connery, and
3. The Three Musketeers (1993).
That outro with the Angel tree topper made me think about the one I discovered this year that I want for next year. The alien from "They Live" as an angel holding a sign that says "CONSUME". I wish there was a way to link photos here, but TH-cam edits them out. I'm sure you can search it on the webz.
"It might get really scary..." LOL! "Oh no 'Angel' Groves! It just ramps up more... tension..." Give a shout out to Tim Curry. He loves appreciation.
Back when theaters had midnight Saturday showings of this where fans would dress up as characters and use props at specific moments in the movie, my brother and his wife would go almost every week for a long time.
I went with them once because I'd never seen it.
It was wild. People all singing along, saying lines with the actors, throwing rice, toast, using squirt guns, just nuts. 😎
See this in a theatre with a bunch of fans. Really, the only way. Hard to believe that I've been dancing and singing along to this film for almost fifty years. Such a rich experience. So go see it with others in a theatre.
I think everyone has the same response to Tim Curry in this film.. "I knew he was good, but.."🤯😂❤️ Can we just remember the same guy brought us Pennywise the clown!? That man!!❤❤❤😂
OK, so yeah for something you might not have noticed. When the movie cuts to the narrator there is a projected image of the church Brad and Janet were at that has Tim Curry circled and an arrow pointing at him.
A quirky movie Tim Curry is in, playing a character named Darkness, is Legend. Released in 1985, it stars a young Tom Cruise. It is a movie that not a lot have seen, but one that I quite enjoyed.
Richard O'Brien, who plays Riff-Raff, is the one who wrote the script for the original musical.
That is so cool!
Really enjoyed that, glad you enjoyed it too, one of the best movies ever. I'm sure you have caught up on a lot of the background since. I used to enjoy our local cinema's monthly Saturday midnight showing, this was in Edinburgh in Scotland around 1984/85, we used to go in full costume (I made a good Riff-Raff if I do say so) and we would go in with a bag full of props, newspaper, water pistols, rice, toast, all to be used at the appropriate moments (eventually they banned the props because of the mess) and we all used to run up onto the stage in front of the screen to do the Time Warp... I've seen this film hundreds of times.
I have loved Tim Curry since I was around 7......so like 1983/1984? He's always been one of my favorites since I saw him in Clue the movie.
It’s pretty accurate to the original stage play. The play opens with “Science Fiction Double Feature” sung by an usherette (this part is doubled with Magenta). Eddie and Dr Scott are also played by the same actor. Meatloaf was apparently disappointed that he was only to play Eddie in the film. Other differences are that Sweet Transvestite and Time Warp are in reverse order in the play; and Brad has his own song (“Once in a While”) when he has done the dirty with Frank. This was removed from the film for pacing reasons in the final edit. It can be found on this platform in pretty crap quality, if you want to check it out.
It was a London fringe play, written by Richard O'Brien (aka Riff-Raff.) The women who came to watch was surprised how attracted they were to Frankenfurter (Tim Curry.) So no surprise there. It's now a cultural phenonema, the audiences dressing up as cast characters. I'm quite dull, so I dressed up as Brad.
Edit: If you want to watch an even more famous fringe movie, then the only option is "Phantom of the Paradise." You can also visit the castle, now a hotel. Stay there overnight.
"Hot Patootie bless my soul,
I really love that rock & roll..."
And yes, he (he being Eddie) was in a ice/freezer room - Incredibly though, he wasn't dead...
Incredibly because the reason he was in the freezer-thing, is that Frankenfurter (presumably after drugging him unconcious) took half his brain to put into Rocky to bring him to life.
Don't remember what else you asked... I've been writing this message for about an hour, an hour and a half; I'm half asleep and keep nodding off only to startle awake when my chin hits my chest or I lean too far to one side...
Eh, got sidetracked again; Both in forgetting to write (or think for that matter) because of fatigue (/exhaustion) and in going on a tangent when I was writing.
Anyway, I hope that helped answer at least some of your questions & confusion.
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Omg! Love love love Tim Curry! And this is were my love affair started with him! I was 16 yrs old and to young to go (rated R), my brother snuck me in and my parents were so anger with my brother but not me. 😅 I went to this movie at least 50 times. The midnight show was so fun. People dressed like the characters, the physical props that were thrown and the whole audience singing every word! Best experience still to this day! I’m 61 now and absolutely loved this reaction! Glad you liked it! 😍🥰