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Given a limited release on the midnight movie circuit beginning on October 30, 1981, Shock Treatment was a critical and commercial failure, not earning the same level of cult film status its predecessor received, but contemporary reviews have since praised its satirical themes, particularly a prescient satire of reality television. In 2015, the ...
Given how accurately the misunderstood 1981 film predicted the future, it’s actually spookier than anything that took place inside Frank N. Furter's castle.
The stage performance mimics many horror B movie and science fiction elements. The stage show was adapted in 1975 as the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which quickly gained a cult following. After being successfully adapted to film, an "equal" was released in 1981 under the title Shock Treatment. While not an outright sequel, the film ...
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 7 Scream: Cal-Com: Byron Quisenberry (director/screenplay); Pepper Martin, Hank Worden, Ethan Wayne, Alvy Moore, Bobby Diamond, Woody Strode, Ann Bronston, Julie Marine, Nancy St. Marie, Joseph Alvarado, John Nowak, Joe Allaine, Cynthia Faria, Bella Bluck, Dee Cooper, Bob Macgonigal, Gino Difirelli, Gregg Palmer
August 28, 1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash; September 1981 The Woman Inside: theatrical distribution only September 25, 1981 Southern Comfort: distribution only; produced by Cinema Group Ventures October 9, 1981 Tattoo: USA distribution only October 31, 1981 Shock Treatment: December 18, 1981 Taps: December 25, 1981 Modern Problems: February ...
5. 'Escape from New York' (1981) John Carpenter's dystopian action film depicted a New York City so hopelessly crime-plagued that the U.S. government gave up on it entirely, walled it off, and ...
James David Sharman (born 12 March 1945) is an Australian director and writer for film and stage with more than 70 productions to his credit. [1] He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director since the 1960s, and is best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit The Rocky Horror Show, its film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and the film ...
It wasn't long after Bioshock released in 2007 that rumors sailed about that a movie was being produced by Universal and to be directed by Gore Verbinski of Pirates of the Carribbean and The Ring ...