🥀🍃Seasons Don’t Fear the Reaper🌾🍂
Rocky Horror at 50: When Fishnet Stockings Meet the Culture Wars Time, it seems, is a flat circle wrapped in a feather boa. Fifty years after The Rocky Horror Picture Show first scandalized audiences with its sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania, the midnight movie phenomenon continues to confound parents whose twenty-something children drag them to theaters for audience participation rituals that feel less like cinema and more like ceremonial possession . My son insists I couldn't possibly have "gotten it" when I saw Rocky Horror in the '90s. He's probably right, though not for the reasons he thinks. Back then, amid the smoke and fury of the LA riots, Rocky Horror felt like pure visual intoxication—a fever dream of Victorian gothic meets glam rock excess. The gender politics? They seemed as quaint as the castle's laboratory equipment, artifacts from a more innocent time when rebellion could be performed in sequins and stilettos. But ...