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Shock Treatment
- Director: Jim Sharman
- Writer: Richard O'Brien; Jim Sharman
- Producer: Lou Adler; John Goldstone
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Lightening rarely strikes twice - it missed this by a couple of hundred miles.
It has to be said: Rocky Horror was a terribly directed film with great material.
This is a terribly directed film with crap material.
Both Sharman and O'Brien lost the plot and preened their egos as they wrote this moronic monstrosity.
Totally miscast, rotten re-hashing of familiar songs and disastrously duplicated dialogue - all serve to brand this catastrophe as an outright CON.
Thank God - it flopped - no other production in the history of the film-making industry deserved such a fate.
Sharman, wisely, gave up film direction - or it gave him up - as this was his final nail driven, spectacularly, into his creative coffin.
O'Brien has been living off of Rocky for years - all hail the one hit wonder.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Following on from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", this musical is set several years later in Brad and Janet Majors' hometown - which has become a giant TV station; residents are either participants or viewers. They are married now, but their romance has fallen on the rocks. Ostensibly to fix their marriage, Brad is imprisoned on the program "Dentonvale" (the local mental hospital) while Janet is conscripted to become a new star. As Janet is entranced by the high life, she forgets Brad. Who is trying to woo her away?
Cast & Characters
Jessica Harper as Janet Majors;
Cliff De Young as Brad Majors / Farley Flavors;
Richard O'Brien as Cosmo McKinley;
Patricia Quinn as Nation McKinley;
Charles Gray as Judge Oliver Wright;
Ruby Wax as Betty Hapschatt;
Nell Campbell as Nurse Ansalong;
Rik Mayall as 'Rest Home' Ricky;
Barry Humphries as Bert Schnick;
Darlene Johnson as Emily Weiss;
Manning Redwood as Harry Weiss;
Wendy Raebeck as Macy Struthers;
Jeremy Newson as Ralph Hapschatt;
Betsy Brantley as Neely Pritt;
Perry Bedden as Neely's Crew