The Rocky Horror Picture Show

50 Years

The cult film to end all cult films is turning 50 years old in 2025. The midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show didn’t begin in 1975, but by 1976 it became a midnight classic. 

I think about the fact that any time I hear about a movie getting a cult following and persistent screenings, those films are always compared to Rocky Horror, without fail. When The Room was becoming a cult hit, people compared those screenings to Rocky Horror. When Cats became an object of in-theater ridicule and fascination, people invoked Rocky Horror. When people think of a cult movie you dress up to see in a theater, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is still the movie people mention. That’s how you know a movie has a true legacy, when its name essentially becomes terminology for how we understand entertainment.