Rocky Horror
Midnight movie classic
Rocky Horror refers to *The Rocky Horror Picture Show*, a 1975 cult musical film featuring science fiction, horror, and camp sensibilities.
The film spawned an interactive theatrical tradition where audiences dress in costume, shout callbacks, and throw props during midnight screenings.
Rocky Horror has become shorthand for campy, gender-bending spectacle and countercultural celebration: We're doing Rocky Horror this Halloween.
- cultFervent fringe group
- fishnetMesh for catching seafood
- transvestiteOne who crossdresses
- creature of the nightEntity thriving in darkness
- midnightTwelve o'clock at night
Tim Curry · screening · double feature · toast · newspaper · virgin sacrifice · pelvic thrust · floor show · lips · corset · Transylvania · Janet · Riff Raff · Magenta · musical · glam · heels · audience participation
- 70s CinemaThe Godfather, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Chinatown, Apocalypse Now
- musicalsWicked, Les Miserables, Cats, Chicago, Grease
- 1975Saturday Night Live, SNL, Born to Run, Bohemian Rhapsody, Apollo-Soyuz
- cult followingcult classic, cult film, cult hit, fandom, superfan
- Rock MusicalsJesus Christ Superstar, Tommy, American Idiot, Godspell, Evita
- camphigh camp, kitsch, theatricality, flamboyance, exaggeration
Rocky HorrorMary Poppins
Rocky Horrorkitchen sink realism
Drama of everyday hardship
social realism · Oklahoma! · documentary · prestige drama · My Fair Lady
rocky, horror, rock, rocks, rocked, rocking, rocker, rockier, rockiest