Shock Treatment
dir. Jim Sharman (1981)
Despite some quality songs and strong vocal performances, the artificiality of the society being satirised makes this Rocky Horror Picture Show sequel hard to engage with. The quirky cult appeal is there but — lacking the stage-driven evolution of its predecessor — feels undeveloped.
Still the Beast is Feeding: Forty Years of Rocky Horror
by Rob Bagnall & Phil Barden (Telos, 2013)
An overtly fannish (mostly in a good way, though sometimes belaboured) depiction of the Rocky Horror Show’s genesis and metamorphoses — the production was cocooned in film and reborn numerous times on stage amidst a mounting scourge of audience participation — across four decades.