20 or 30 years ago, many cities had a group of nerds who would get together monthly / quarterly / annually to put on a live action RHPS and/or watch the film. They would dress up in themed/fetishy costumes to go. There was a sort of ritualised audience participation portion where the audience yelled certain things at certain times in the plot, IIRC threw popcorn, and other stuff. I don't think I ever actually attended in one of these but I knew various people who were in the subculture. my view of it was the crowd was largely queer/bi/pan/poly/straight/genderbender white people.
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is anybody still doing this? (maybe it's still as active as ever and I've just changed who I know?)
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did the internet kill it and if so, how?
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gen z: are you familiar with this phenomena?
bonus question: what is the current analysis of RHPS, particularly, but not limited to, the concept of gender as depicted?
I've been to one, I went about 6 years ago though, so it's been a hot minute. Rocky Horror is something I've watched with people multiple times.
I really wanna go but they "recommend" costumes and props which makes it hard to go while abiding by the David Mitchell philosophy (your appearance must always be unnoteworthy but not so unnoteworthy that it in itself becomes noteworthy).
silly philosophy