Ifirst saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show a couple of months after it premièred in September of 1975 in the movie theatre at the Canadian Forces Base in Winnipeg. Article content

This was before the movie inspired ritualized midnight screenings featuring audience participation along the lines of shooting squirt guns and throwing popcorn at the screen. Clearly, that kind of thing would not have been tolerated at a cinema where you had to stand for the national anthem before every screening. Article content Article content

Curiously though, it registers as an uncontroversial event. A pointed musical parody of horror genre tropes through a queer lens, it tells the story of a wholesome American couple, Brad and Janet, falling victim to an array of unwholesome influences when a storm force

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