20 or 30 years ago, many cities had a group of nerds who would get together monthly / quarterly / annually to put on a live action RHPS and/or watch the film. They would dress up in themed/fetishy costumes to go. There was a sort of ritualised audience participation portion where the audience yelled certain things at certain times in the plot, IIRC threw popcorn, and other stuff. I don't think I ever actually attended in one of these but I knew various people who were in the subculture. my view of it was the crowd was largely queer/bi/pan/poly/straight/genderbender white people.
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is anybody still doing this? (maybe it's still as active as ever and I've just changed who I know?)
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did the internet kill it and if so, how?
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gen z: are you familiar with this phenomena?
bonus question: what is the current analysis of RHPS, particularly, but not limited to, the concept of gender as depicted?
I swear every indie theater still does this. I'm pretty sure RHPS and the Room are single handedly keeping independent theaters in business lol
This is true but this is also how I got to see the Akira remaster in the theater in like 2017
Yeah, I love indie theaters and love the rhps and room nerds for keeping them in business. o7
That and John Carpenter movies
Why yes I did see Halloween at the local drive in theater last week how did you know
It was packed too