Hollywood often gets a deserved bad rap for squeezing blood from stones (or beating dead horses, or whatever colorful metaphor one wishes to use) with ill-conceived and unnecessary sequels. Still, you have to give them some credit for allowing many…
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To conclude MovieFanFare’s Golden Anniversary salute to the 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this week’s poll offers you a chance to vote for which RHPS character is your favorite. Are you a devotee of “absolute pleasure” and…
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“I would like, if I may, to take you…on a strange journey.” These are the first words spoken in The Rocky Horror Picture Show by the film’s erudite narrator/host. For many moviegoers, it’s also the first time they may…
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Okay, here’s the drill. We, the unconventional conventionists of MovieFanFare, are celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show throughout the month of September. For today’s tribute we’ve taken a still from the 1975 cult favorite and given…
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s US theatrical debut in September of 1976 wasn’t quite what 20th Century-Fox hoped for. Okay, let’s be Frank (no pun intended); the film tanked. Its sole bright spot was at Los Angeles’ UA Westwood Theater,…
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It was 50 years ago this month that The Rocky Horror Picture Show held 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,…
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“It isn’t easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache.” – Dr. Frank N. Furter (a scientist). Originally released in 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has had about as strange of a trajectory as any film…
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We were saddened to learn of the passing of singer and actor Meat Loaf, who died yesterday at the age of 74. Best known for his Bat Out of Hell recordings written by the late, great Jim Steinman and for…
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For this latest Halloween post, we are going to mix things up a bit by throwing some laughs in with the shocks to ask you what your favorite horror-comedy is. Perhaps the greatest example of the genre is Mel Brooks‘…
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What you are about to see is pure video gold. As you are probably already aware, when The Rocky Horror Picture Show was originally released in 1975 by 20th Century-Fox, it was a box office failure. Then something interesting happened,…
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