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Jack_Q_Frost_Jr t1_jdt0zsb wrote

I hope you'll give the follow up a shot too. It's called "Shock Treatment."

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Dragonborn83196 t1_jdt2ot2 wrote

You know I’ve been super hesitant to watch that as I’ve heard it’s just bad. But maybe one day I’ll suck it up and just put it on

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Jack_Q_Frost_Jr t1_jdt5zeq wrote

Rocky Horror was a huge part of my teenage years. I saw it at the midnight movies dozens of times. Almost every weekend for a few years back in high school. All my fellow Rocky fan friends hated "Shock Treatment", it was always dismissed as being irredeemably awful. I feel their reaction was for a few reasons other than quality. The plot is not related to Rocky Horror's plot at all, the only returning characters are Brad, Janet (both played by different actors) Betty and Ralph. Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, and Little Nell are in it but as different characters. Charles Gray's character may be The Criminologist, but it's never explicitly stated. So, I think Rocky Horror fans felt it was sacrilegious to make a sequel but not follow up on the story, recast Brad and Janet, and not have Tim Curry in it*.

But... if you are able to look past those differences, I think it's a terrific film that's very underrated. The story about reality TV stardom was ahead of its time, the music is just as good as the music in Rocky Horror, and Little Nell has never been hotter.

*From what I've read, they wanted Tim Curry in a sequel and though he did not want to play Frank again, he was willing to return as a different character. >!As Brad Majors, believe it or not. But reportedly at the last minute Curry got cold feet about his ability to do an American accent and dropped out.!<

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CptNonsense t1_jdtdnt7 wrote

>Curry got cold feet about his ability to do an American accent and dropped out.

As someone who watched Congo, that was the correct assessment of his ability to do accents

Also, will someone explain to me what the hell the spoiler is in that section?

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Jack_Q_Frost_Jr t1_jdtmjdu wrote

I guess it is stupid to tag a spoiler for a movie never made. My bad.

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Dragonborn83196 t1_jdt6qs0 wrote

Interesting. I didn’t watch Rocky Horror until I meet my now ex, her dad used watch the midnight premieres back in the day when it first started to develop a cult following. So first we watched the movie together, I loved it, I watched it again like 20 times by myself and learned the callouts. But her dad was one of the few people I know to have seen shock treatment and told me not to bother. But as I said maybe one of these I’ll check it out

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CptNonsense t1_jdtdjew wrote

>You know I’ve been super hesitant to watch that as I’ve heard it’s just bad

Lol.

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