Tim Curry gibt zu, dass Rocky Horror im seltenen Interview ursprünglich als „Misserfolg“ angesehen wurde: „Ich wurde zerquetscht“.

> „It died a death. It was a failure. And I was crushed…I thought that it might well be [the end of my movie career]. But I was tougher than that,“ he said.

> Midnight showings of the film, however, picked up steam, cementing its cult status as it began to be shown year after year to audiences who brought props and acted out certain scenes in front of the screen.

> „For your first movie to run for 50 years is crazy,“ Curry added of the film’s continued success, all these years later.

I still have yet to see this movie.

I love Tim, he’s such a a gem.  

#THAT MAN HAS NO NECK!!!

people flatter themselves into thinking they are cleverly ironic by saying a film like this is „good because it is bad“ — 

but they never say what they claim is bad about it

it is work of genius, ahead of its time, original yet an homage to past greatness . . . there is nothing accidental about why it succeeds . . . 

high concept — great production values, performances, design, music, sound, editing . . . quality by any standards . . . deep and hilarious . . .

This is a very disturbing experience as I thought he died in the middle of the 2010″.

Fortunately, it didn’t take that long for it to gain a cult following. I went to a packed midnight showing in the late 70s, and it already had quite a following by then.

Edit: I actually attended 3 midnight showings within a month, all packed.

The Room was also a huge critical failure and objectively „bad“ movie yet it also because a cult classic. That’s just it with art though – you never really know what gains popularity later on.

I just discovered last night that he was the devil in the 1980s movie Legend with Tom Cruise!

Tim Curry is amazing!!

When the hell did Tim Curry start looking like Larry Flynt?