The world “cult basic” will get thrown round lots nowadays, too typically meant to imply a film or TV present with a cult following. However earlier than the web gave us entry to all the things and something, true cult classics meant motion pictures that you just needed to be launched to by somebody already initiated. The Rocky Horror Image Present was such a sensation, going from a London fringe play to a flopped film to a midnight insanity phenomenon that is lasted for 50 years.
Unusual Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror is a documentary that appears again on the origins of this actually iconic movie, as Richard O’Brien, creator of The Rocky Horror Image Present, lays out forward of the trailer above.
His son, documentarian Linus O’Brien, interviews a slew of the unique solid members, together with O’Brien, Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick. To get an thought of the affect this film about kinky aliens had on popular culture, O’Brien additionally speaks to stars who grew up obsessive about Rocky Horror, together with Tenacious D’s Jack Black and RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars champion Trixie Mattel.
Archival footage from the ’70s permits audiences to do the time warp once more, taking us again to the rise of the shadow casts and all of the in-theater mayhem that got here to be part of the present’s legacy. However past that, this documentary goals to discover why this “freak” present appeals to so, so, so, so many.
How one can watch: Unusual Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror opens in a restricted theatrical run in additional than 50 cities beginning on Sept. 26, together with the Landmark Theatres Nuart in Los Angeles, the Village East by Angelika in New York, and the Music Field Theater in Chicago.
