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Then, as dictated by tradition, the crowd stands up, turns toward the projector while waving their middle fingers and, in unison, shouts “Start this f---ing movie!”.
that time, but the Rocky tradition is kept alive by devotees who attend conventions and engage in other expressions of fandom and shadow casts active around the country. In the past, New Orleans had roving groups like the Transylvanian Electric Co., which would perform at movie theaters, bars and other venues. Before that, the now-closed singlescreen Sena Mall Theater in Metairie hosted popular Rocky screenings The campy R-rated sci-fi movieduring the height of Rocky mania. In musical — in which a naive, newly recent years the city has not had an engaged couple finds themselves active professional shadow cast. Now in a mysterious castle occupied the only theater consistently showing by strange inhabitants, a place of experimental science, cannibalism and Rocky in New Orleans is the Prytania, and a group of Tulane University choreographed dances — opened in students has recently assumed the theaters in 1975. Ticket sales were role of its official Rocky cast. poor, but the film soon enjoyed a Rocky is a beloved tradition at cult following on the midnight movie Tulane, where on Halloween it hosts a circuit. By the late 1970s, midnight wildly popular screening of the film in screenings of The Rocky Horror the school’s McAlister Hall, according Picture Show were a national craze, and the tradition of audience callbacks to student Erin McCluskey, the director and participation began to take shape. of the cast. McCluskey became interested in the event while a member The film by no means occupies the of the school’s Office for Gender and counterculture cachet it did during
Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch me, I wanna feel dirty!
Tulane student Jason Winikoff is the cast’s Dr. Frank-N-Furter. PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER