Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

ShangLuda Admirable film.

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

radmanart The filmmakers intended to shoot on location in Denton, Texas, but production screeched to a halt in 1980 when the Screen Actors Guild went on strike.Just knowing this movie is made after the town of Denton Texas makes this worth while. Denton, Denton, Texas is the next county over from my county;, Collin County. When we first moved here to McKinney in 1994 we traveled allot around Texas and we went to Denton every once and a while. It had a strange attraction to it, and the people seamed overly friendly and put offish at the same time. Weird in other words, but in a good way.My wife was thinking about going to college there back in 1994. We hung out there for a while and checked out the college. It seemed to invite you to like Denton at the same time push you away. I can not believe how much Shock Treatment reminds me of the movie True Stories. I wonder if some of the same people were involved in the making of both movies? I wonder if True Stories was modeled after Shock Treatment? True Stories is 100 times a better finer quality movie though. The sound quality in True Stories is the best I have ever heard in a great rock and roll based movie.

moshomaniac This much detested sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show was panned by critics and audiences alike when first released in 1981. A big fan of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, I decided to give it a watch. Though I knew of the film's infamy, I wanted to keep an open mind, like I do with all films. When the film began, my reaction differed drastically than the majority of RHPS fans--I LOVED it!!Shock Treatment must be viewed as a stand alone picture to be truly loved and appreciated. It was notoriously dubbed "an equal" upon its release, a notion that angered most RHPS fans. But I do think the film is a interesting-and fun-picture in its own right. If anything, it's more intricate and sophisticated than RHPS . The production values are top-notch, and the story is a bit cliché, but so was the proceeding film. The story takes place in the hometown of Brad and Janet, Denton, where the entire town has been turned into a huge television studio, where its brainwashed residents participate in 24/7 television, complete with commercials. Predating The Truman Show by almost a decade, Shock Treatment's biting satire of a world consumed by television, if anything, resonated even greater today. The idea of having the entire film take place on a soundstage was not a stroke of genius by Richard O'Brien, it was done out of necessity: the previous plot of the film--called "The Brad and Janet Show", which featured Brad and Janet's adventures shot on location in Denton, had to be scrapped due to a writer's strike going on at the time, so they opted to take the production back to England, and film it in its entirety on the giant television set. The film suffers from what I like to call "Halloween 3 syndrome", as it decided to take a familiar story and do something different and unique with the characters. Also, Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon didn't reprise their roles and Brad and Janet, played by different actors. Charles Gray, Little Nell, Richard O'Brien, and Jeremy Newson all return to the sequel, but play different characters: only Jeremy Newson reprises his role, as the character Ralph Hapschatt who was featured briefly on Rocky Horror. Overall, Shock Treatment, though not as good as Rocky Horror, is a misunderstood film that is not near as bad as its reputation would suggest. I suggest watching it with an open mind, and remove all pretenses of it being related at all to RHPS(because, in all honesty, it isn't). But if you are looking for a wild, crazy satire that is truly unique, give it a whirl. You might end up enjoying it.

plutoburns The spiritual successor to Rocky Horror stands as a far more interesting if less mimetic musical romp of wackiness. The story of a the Town of Denton, that takes so much pride in their local TV program that the audience will LITERALLY sleep in the stands between broadcast days. And over the course of this movie, a marriage will be broken, stars will be made and a national course of "Mental Health" will be prescribed.To sum up this movie is nigh impossible as it features an evil twin brother, incestuous doctors and biting social commentary, all fired fast and loose at the viewer. Rocky Horror didn't make much sense either, but Rocky was ultimately pointless nonsense meant to offend the sense abilities. Shock Treatment actually has a point to it all, but that point is mostly that reality television and fame are corrupting influences of evil; an admirable sentiment to hold considering that this movie predates reality TV by about a decade. All the packed in details, looping plot lines and motivations make this a much harder movie to comprehend than rocky and also harder to simply loose yourself in the surreal-ness of it all. But it definitely stands a bizarre movie worth seeing and easily riff able if you've had a few brewskis.The music is a mixed bag. Stand out tracks of Dear Blender and Shock Treatment constantly delight and there are some trippy introspection songs as well. But others just fall flat, either through instrumentation or staging.

Jackson Booth-Millard The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a great satirical horror spoof musical, and you probably wouldn't think there was a follow up, but there was, from returning director Jim Sharman. Basically this one, set six years after the previous film events, spoofs the world of television, specifically game shows crossed with early reality TV. Returning and in the audience for this show on a giant TV station called "Dentonvale", hosted by the eccentric Bert Schnick (Barry Humphries, best known as Dame Edna Everage), are now married Janet (Jessica Harper) and Brad Majors (Cliff De Young). They are currently in a rocky patch with their marriage, and the show offers a chance for them to restore their feelings for each other, which Janet is more than happy to do, while Brad is imprisoned. As time goes by it seems that Bert, along with the McKinleys as right hands, Nation (Patricia Quinn) and Cosmo (Richard O'Brien, also writing), are offering more than just the romance re-ignition, but a star career for Janet. She is entranced by her new life of stardom with the help of the megalomaniac TV crew, and has pretty much forgotten all about Brad, that is until we find out the other big name in the show Farley Flavors (also De Young) is the twin brother of Brad. After some looking behind the scenes by concerned Judge Oliver Wright (Diamonds Are Forver's Charles Gray) and Betty Hapschatt (Ruby Wax) things are settled in the end, I can't remember or be bothered to find out how, but it is. Also starring Nell Campbell as Nurse Ansalong, Rik Mayall as 'Rest Home' Ricky and singer and frequent guest judge in The X Factor Sinitta Renay as Frankie. One or two of the songs are a little catchy, the lyrics certainly do alright, and the colourful sets and costumes look okay, but all this doesn't make the film any better. The acting is terribly cheesy, the story is stupid, the music doesn't always fit, and you just know deep down that the first film is better, this is easily the most forgettable sequel I've ever seen, a silly musical satire. Pretty poor!