A look at the creation, influence and eternal life of the Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror (Picture) Show as told by most of the principal players to Linus O’Brien, Richard’s son.
One of the great films of 2025 and one of the best films on
film I’ve ever run across, STRANGE JOURNEY is a masterpiece. It is a film that opened up my heart and soul
in the best possible way. It is a film that only the son of Richard O’Brien
could make because I don’t think anyone else could have corralled everyone to talk
about the film with such openness and candor. They are not talking to a filmmaker
but a friend since everyone refers to Linus by name at some point. What O’Brien
manages to do is to get the oft told tales not to sound by rote, while at the
same time getting an infusion of new details most of us have never heard
before.
I was a sobbing mess because this film connected me to some
part of myself that is still now and forever doing the Time Warp. I adored how the
film essentially saved people because with in the film they found a home and a
place to be – a place where it was okay be gay, or whatever because that was
what Rocky was ultimately about. As Trixie Martell says at the beginning of the
film, it was gay, but it was so hip and so okay that even straight guys leaned
into it. Watching the film it’s clear that the film truly changed the world.
And it was completely unexpected. As Richard OBrien says at
the beginning, if you had told him when he was cutting hair in New Zealand way
back when, that one day on a spot near where the shop once stood that there would
be a statue of him in fishnets and Riff Raff garb he would have thought you insane.
I love this film and I love Rocky Horror.
One of the best films of 2025
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