Paramount Summer Classic Film Series-Rocky Horror Picture Show

 

Once again my unconventional convention years it's time for us to visit transsexual Transylvania and the castle of our host Dr. Frankenfurter. Brad and Janet get lost on the way to visit their friend Dr. Scott and we get taken along on the journey to a forbidding Castle filled with crazy weirdos doing their native dance the time warp.

I come to this movie with a long tradition of participation in the usual Rocky Horror audience call back. I do however find that people overindulge in this particular venue with their own personally created comments and inserts, which can sometimes work well, sometimes miss the mark, and frequently can't be made out in the crowd because someone else is engaging in the same behavior. When everybody knows the call-outs and participates as a crowd it's great fun, when voices are calling out randomly and the words are running over one another and it's barely loud enough to make out any of the words but it is loud enough to drown out what's going on on the screen, that's a little bit of a problem. Although I have to admit I am usually overcome by the enthusiasm of everybody who's participating this way. So let's go ahead and indulge them a bit and hope that once in awhile there's self-created call back to the Antics on the screen will provoke a laugh.

The theater was full, lots of people dressed up, and surprisingly there were a couple of hundred people who were seeing the movie for the first time, Lucky them. We had a good time calling out the familiar chants, and singing along to the songs, but most especially cheering the arrival of characters on screen. I do think the a****** and s*** call outs are a little excessive, the first time is fine the 25th time is boring, but once again who am I to say where the line is. I can however enthusiastically cheer when Riff Raff appears in the window during the storm, when Eddie breaks out of the Deep Freeze on his motorcycle, and most especially when Frankenfurter comes down the elevator to greet his guests. This is one of the Great Moments of a character appearing on screen in all of film history. Yeah I said it and I'll defend it.

If you've never seen Rocky Horror Picture Show then you won't understand, but then what the heck are you doing reading this page anyway?