Anticipation runs high as one of the longest running cult-classic movies is coming to the Patricia Theatre, only the second time the movie has been shown there since the 1980s.
Two screenings of Rocky Horror Picture Show will fill the theatre Halloween night, Thursday, October 31, as a fundraiser for the upcoming Powell River Film Festival, which runs February 11 through 16 next year at the Patricia.
The 1975 British musical comedy horror film is an adaptation of The Rocky Horror Show, a musical stage play by Richard O’Brien. It was directed by Jim Sharman and is a tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the late 1940s through to the 1970s. It stars Tim Curry as mad scientist Dr. Frank N. Furter, Susan Sarrandon as Janet Weiss and Barry Bostwick as Brad Majors.
The story follows a newly engaged couple, Majors and Weiss, who find themselves lost and with a flat tire on a cold and rainy late evening. Seeking a telephone, the couple walk to a nearby castle where they discover a group of strange and outlandish people who are holding an Annual Transylvanian Convention. They are soon swept into the world of Furter, a self-proclaimed “Sweet Transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania.”
The film is known for audience participation, but due to new technology, there will be some restrictions on what the audience can expect to do. “Because of the new expensive digital film screen that was just installed last year with the Patricia Theatre upgrades, people can’t throw food or anything else for that matter at the screen,” said CaroleAnn Leishman, who is helping to organize the festivities. “Replacement of the screen would be very expensive and even getting a stain on it would damage it permanently.”
There will be little baggies available for $1 with the interactive essentials: a couple of pieces of unbuttered toast, some confetti, some rice, and some playing cards, she said.
“There will be no open flame allowed in the theatre so people can hold up their phones or a flashlight,” she added. “You can bring in newspapers and noisemakers and it is encouraged to fully dress in character to fit in.”
The show runs 100 minutes and is rated 18A.
Throughout the evening, wine and Townsite Brewing beer will be on sale.
The first screening of the show will be at 9:30 pm and the second at midnight.
Tickets are $20 and on sale at the Patricia, Breakwater Books and Coffee and Ecossentials.
