The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show bts #1 - Richard O'Brien and Patricia Quinn + Nell Campbell

Jubilee (1978)

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

1975

"Little" Nell Campbell

French Resistance, Paris, 1976 💋

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On October 27, 1988, The Rocky Horror Picture Show debuted in Hungary.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

dir. Jim Sharman

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

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Patricia and Nell🖤❤️

February 1978. Released a year after the royal Silver Jubilee to which the title alludes, this colorful, moderately surreal, definitely pretentious Derek Jarman punk indulgence is framed by an odd sequence in which an angel (Ian Charleson) gives Queen Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre) and John Dee (Richard O'Brien) a glimpse of the future, where a group of young punks — Amyl (Pamela Rooke, aka Jordan), Crabs (Little Nell, aka Nell Campbell, who could have convincingly played Helen Mirren's younger sister), Viv (Linda Spurrier), Mad (Toyah Willcox), Sphinx (Karl Johnson), Angel (Ian Charleson), and Kid (Adam Ant), along with the somewhat older and decidedly mad Bod (also Runacre) — struggle with end-of-the-world ennui and boredom that they try to fill with looting, sex, music (produced by the deranged Borgia Ginz, played by Jack Birkett, aka Orlando), mindless aggro, and the occasional recreational murder. (The story doesn't ever spell out exactly why the world is ending, but anyone living in the gloomy inflationary austerity of late '70s Britain hardly needed any elaboration on that score.)

Even if you don't recognize the various punk and New Wave figures who appear throughout, the film captures the early punk sensibility pretty well, although for all its mayhem, its aura of studied disaffection makes it rather slow-moving and occasionally dull. This seems intentional — the characters themselves are desperately bored, and while everyone's still going through the motions out of inertia or nostalgia, the point is that there is no point.

For all that, JUBILEE is still significantly less cynical than the later LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS (which also features an array of punk stars), and occasionally manages to seem strangely wistful. CONTAINS LESBIANS? There's a fair amount of gay sex, but the closest it gets to wlw is a scene where Bod and Mad do a little knife-play. VERDICT: Definitely an acquired taste, but if you have any interest in punk, New Wave, or post punk, it's essential viewing. As a companion piece, try the somewhat earlier THE FINAL PROGRAMME (also with Jenny Runacre), based on Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius novel, which is similar in tone and sensibility.

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Columbia's Solo ~ Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Rayner Bourton, Belinda Sinclair, Nell Campbell, Tim Curry, and Christopher Malcolm in The Rocky Horror Show, London, 1973