It was 50 years ago this month that The Rocky Horror Picture Show, had its U.S. premiere in Los Angeles after an August London opening. Based on Richard O’Brien’s stage play The Rocky Horror Show and directed by Jim Sharman, the 20th Century-Fox release was a box office flop upon its initial outing. Within two years, though, it gained new life as a “midnight movie” and slowly built a devoted audience. Those fans would regularly show up at theaters dressed up as the cast and re-enact scenes from the film.
To mark the quintessential cult movie’s Golden Anniversary, MovieFanFare will be kicking up its heels for the rest of September. We’ve got a selection of classic articles and brand new pieces that will have you shivering with antici…pation. To start things off, let’s go back in time to the summer of 1975 and watch RHPS’s original theatrical trailer:
Boy, Fox really wasn’t certain what they had on their hands, were they? Keep checking this site over the next two weeks for more Rocky-related fare sure to delight the most uncoventional of conventionists.