For some reason, I would bet that many here in this forum have seen and enjoyed Rocky Horror Picture Show.Tell us about your first time seeing it, what you thought of it and which character you associate with if any. Your essey will be graded on style and pure entertainment value with no points taken away for spelling. This is a fun thread so have fun!

Frank N. Furter

It was great when it all began. I was a regular Frankie fan, but it was over when he had a plan to start a working on a muscle man.

One day a friend of mine told me that I needed a mini vacation and should come to a movie with her. I did and was surprised that I had to show up at 9:00 P.M. for a midnight showing. Many in the line were dressed as the characters in the show, and I was taken to be introduced to Franknfurter, Magenta, Columbia, and Riff Raf. I was priveledged to be allowed to sit in the third row middle seat where some guy dressed as a Transylvanian with bright red lipstick on and dark glasses kissed me. I just knew it was going to be a night to remember. I was laughing deeply inside.

The movie started, I got squirted with water guns and toilet papered, but when I saw Franknfurter coming down that elevator with those godawful white and black sparkley platform shoes and fishnet tights, I flipped out. My friend loved seeing the damage she was doing to my poor mind.

That night when I went to bed I couldnt get the time warp song out of my head. I woke up with it the next morning and returned the same evening with another friend that had never seen it before.

Thereafter I went to see the show every Friday and Saturday night. I was such a release to go there and sing the whole show and laugh and scream. I loved it. I got a lifetime pass issued by Chicago's Biograph theatre, and all of the rolls of toilet paper I could collect. I stopped counting at 86 times viewing the show. I introduced my husband to be to the show and he liked it but he couldn't see going so often. Then I started to like guys in fishnet stockings and when I realized this, I got scared shitless and quit going. Now I own a tape of the show and no longer am turned on by guys in fishnets...my husband refused to wear them. I am sitting here with a big smile to remember those days fondly.

I never identified with any certain character, but I took great care to paint my nails fire engine red and to wear a slash of red lipstick. It was like getting into a uniform. The minute I put the lipstick on I was in the mood.

Thanks for bringing this up.

i'm a big fan of the movie, almost obsessively so at one point. never got to see it live but i have two copies on vhs. That movie helped me keep my sanity for a full year and then some. I was living at home, and all i was aloud to do was go to school and stay home, day after day. well that's when i got heavily into movies to help me keep my sanity. the Rocky Horror Picture Show was one i felt a special about so i'd put it in the vcr let it play and then auto rewind afterwards and hit play again, i must have watched it about 10 times a day or more for lack of anything else to entertain myself with. i learned all the songs by heart and all the call out lines i got off the net at school. my favorite was frank but i think i always made a better brad. He was the one who was always so reserved, polite and propper yet you could tell when he let go he had a blast with frank, and was sort of set free of his inhibitions in the end with everybody else.

I could play any part if i were aloud to go out to see it when they showed it at the mason jar every first and third Saturday. I would have loved going and dressing up. being a part of that special group of free spirits.

Also that movie helped me make a good friend at that time, but that is a different story. lol might share it later.

If you havn't seen it live at a theater, you havn't seen it, really. I was 17 when I got the "V" marked on my forhead. It was a theater in Beaumont, TX (can you say bible belt, baptistville) in 1987. I was drunk on Schlitz Malt Liquer (hey, the bull doesn't come through the wall for nothin'). That's when I became a regular "Frankie Fan". My best friend and I got the soundtracks and I still know every word from every song. Damn, I want to go see it again now!

For some reason, I can see an International MoM being held in a castle like that with everyone dressed as Unconventional Conventioners... LOL! Makes me want to don some fishnet stockings and a black wig with high heels (that would be a scary sight, I promise!)