The Rocky Horror Picture Show cult following is the cultural phenomenon surrounding the large fan base of enthusiastic participants of the 1975 movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show, generally credited
Dori Hartley and Sal Piro at the Waverly Theater in New York City, 1977
D. Garrett Gafford and Terri Hardin at the Tiffany Theater in Hollywood, 1978
San Francisco's Strand Theatre, 1979. Linda Woods, Marni Scofidio, Denise Erickson and Tim Curry
RHPS performance at Six Flags St. Louis during Fright Fest
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A midnight movie is a low-budget genre picture or distinctly nonmainstream film programmed for late-night screening or broadcast. The term is rooted in the practice that emerged in the 1950s of local
The Rocky Horror Picture Show cult following
…the large fan base of enthusiastic participants of the 1975 movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show, generally credited as being the best-known cinematic "midnight movie". The film The Rocky Horror Picture Show came about due to the tremendous success of the stage musical The Rocky Horror Show and opened in the United…
One of the definitive midnight movies, Tod Browning's Freaks (1932) was the sort of (then) obscure horror film shown on late-night TV beginning in the 1950s; in the 1970s and early 1980s, it was a staple of midnight screenings at theaters around the U.S.
Maila Nurmi as Vampira, the original midnight movie TV host.
"A film too heavy to be shown any other way." Newspaper ad for December 1970 midnight screenings of El Topo at the Elgin Theater.
David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) found an audience through midnight screenings.