stackyFACTSLeave it to theater kids and insomniacs to turn a critically panned 1975 sci-fi musical into a global religion.
Leave it to theater kids and insomniacs to turn a critically panned 1975 sci-fi musical into a global religion. The film itself is barely the point anymore; the actual entertainment is the crowd. Patrons arrive in full corsets, scream deeply choreographed insults at the characters, shoot water pistols during rain scenes, and hurl toilet paper during a mummy reveal. It transformed the passive act of movie-going into an aggressively interactive, gloriously chaotic midnight ritual.
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