Halloween Miscellaneous Masterpieces: Shock Treatment & Absolute O’Brien

By Matt Melis on October 31st, 2008

Halloween, at least in part, belongs to Richard O’Brien, as does the midnight hour with which we’ve come to associate all things frightening, macabre, and sexually taboo. O’Brien, 66, is the revered creator of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a stage musical and cult film that fuses together the unlikely triumvirate of science fiction, cross-dressing, [...]

Tricks or Treats: “Science Fiction/Double Feature”

By Elizabeth Grobel on October 22nd, 2008

When I think Halloween, I think The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I’ve probably seen it a hundred times. When I was thirteen and fourteen (and fifteen and sixteen and seventeen), you only had to be eighteen to get in, and being that this was before September 11th, at thirteen I was eighteen (or at least [...]