The Rocky Horror picture is not scary, spooky, or related to Halloween in any real way, and yet it is a modern Halloween classic. That’s why we’re selecting it for this month’s SparkNotes Movie Club. We’re also selecting it because when we asked what movie you guys wanted to watch, this film won by a landslide. Or maybe the voting was hacked by a high-tech theater kid.
What Rocky Horror lacks in frights, it makes up for with the wild party atmosphere that we associate with late October. It’s also one of the very best movies to watch with a group of people. That means this live-blog will be the best thing to happen to computers since the Num Lock key!
Load up on fun size candy bars and sad-size carrots! We’re throwing a Halloween party/Rocky Horror live-blog right here on SparkNotes next Wednesday, October 26th starting promptly at 8 p.m. (EST). Think of it as the world’s greatest Halloween party during which you can pick your nose and the other attendees won’t even know it.
We’ve had some issues with the live-blogging technology in the past, but this time it’ll work. For real! Next Wednesday we’ll post the live-blog article where you can sign in and start typing in real-time. We will all begin our own copies of the movie at the same time and I’ll be making comments and remarks so profound and awe-inspiring that missing this Halloween Party will be the biggest mistake of your life.
You can write funny comments. I can write funny comments. And then you can write, “Dan! You’re a pimple!”
And then I’ll pretend I’m not crying.
Even if you’re not watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show, stop by and hang out.
To those who have no idea what The Rocky Horror Picture Show is, here’s a brief explanation:
The movie is a bad 70’s sci-fi musical/horror/comedy about two prudes who stumble upon a cross-dressing mad scientist’s lair. What happens next is a blur of catchy songs, bright colors, dancing, and over-acted brilliance. A critical and box-office failure upon its initial release, the movie became a cult classic at midnight showings, where audience members would shout back at the screen and dress up like the characters.
There’s nothing quite like The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Glee tried to mimic the magic last year in a Rocky Horror-themed episode, but try as they might, the songs didn’t work the same after they were polished and modified by the Glee kids. The campy movie is where the campy songs belong.
Yes, the movie is rated R, but despite what you may think, it’s a rather soft R, and would probably receive a PG-13 had it been rated by today’s standards. Seeing a man dressed as a woman is less shocking than it was 35 years ago. After watching the film a few times on VH1, we can’t even tell what was cut out of the version broadcasted on TV. And it’s not scary. Honest!
I wanted to watch The Human Centipede, but that’s a live-blog for a whole different website—the FBI’s Criminal Watchdog website, to be exact.
Start memorizing the Rocky Horror lyrics and deciding which character you will dress as (I’m going as Brad and Janet’s car) because you have only a week to get ready! The live-blog Halloween party is next Wednesday!
And, in the off chance that the live-blog technology will crash, we will rush on over to my Facebook wall and continue the party as a usual live-blog.
This will be awesome! Until then, you will shiver with antici------------------------pation.
(See what I did there?)
If the Halloween movie you suggested was not picked, please take it personally. I rejected it because I hate you and your mind. Just kidding. All the suggestions were great and they all went on our big list of awesome movies that we will one day select.
Oh, and I am officially decreeing that The Nightmare Before Christmas is not a Halloween movie, but a Christmas movie. Wanna fight ‘bout it?
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Topics: Entertainment, Celebs & Stuff
Tags: holidays, movies, halloween, rocky horror picture show, sparknotes movie club
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