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I saw it maybe in 1977 when it was on its way up the fame curve. Obviously a very strange flick. I did not dress up or participate from the audience.

I liked the "Time Warp" song. Meat Loaf is there, before becoming famous. Largely unknown Susan Sarandon in her underwear. Tim Curry nails the lead role.

The article in today's paper said Rocky Horror is the longest running release in film history. (Continuous showing?)

Also:

What matters with “Rocky Horror” isn’t so much what transpires in the movie as what happens around it. Ever since a particularly animated midnight screening of the movie at Greenwich Village’s Waverly Theater on Labor Day weekend in 1976, a night at the “Picture Show” equals a visit to another reality. All because a viewer named Louis Farese yelled “Buy an umbrella, you cheap bitch!” at Janet as she crooned “Over at the Frankenstein place/ There’s a light” (in a rainstorm, with a newspaper draped over her head).

Farese’s outburst initiated an outbreak of back talk from “Rocky Horror” audiences, inadvertently launching modern cinema’s first truly immersive experience. There exists an elaborate script of refrains, responses, challenges to the characters on screen and gratuitous profanities — once stored in the ether, later compiled and published by writer Jim Hetzer. One “virgin’s guide” to attending “Rocky Horror” makes a regulation of honoring alternative talk-back scripts: “Don’t try to shout down other people, they might know better lines than you do.” “Rocky” was social media before there was such a thing.

It also authorized viewers to begin arriving in character, turning everyday cinemas into experimental laboratories of gender-bending cosplay....