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gridloreI'd love to see Shock Treatment get a remake.
Yeah, completely inferior to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but think about it. RHPS was a creature of its time; a camp musical that drew on the horror films of the fifties and the sexual revolution of the seventies. Shock Treatment, with it's weird town-as-TV-studio, celebrity-pop-psychology, and reality TV themes didn't hit at all with audiences in 1981.
But today? We are inundated with reality TV. court shows, tell-all day-time talk shows, Survivor, Big Brother, Ice Road Truckers, it seems that every other show involves really people have crappy days being followed around by cameras. Even the idea of a town existing inside a
TV bubble has been broached, witness The Truman Show and the recent The Week the Women Went. We even have the musical component in Glee.
I think the film would work today, because like Rocky is takes tropes we already know and blows them up to ridiculous sizes.
And I want Barry Bostwick to play Judge Oliver Wright. :)
Yeah, completely inferior to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but think about it. RHPS was a creature of its time; a camp musical that drew on the horror films of the fifties and the sexual revolution of the seventies. Shock Treatment, with it's weird town-as-TV-studio, celebrity-pop-psychology, and reality TV themes didn't hit at all with audiences in 1981.
But today? We are inundated with reality TV. court shows, tell-all day-time talk shows, Survivor, Big Brother, Ice Road Truckers, it seems that every other show involves really people have crappy days being followed around by cameras. Even the idea of a town existing inside a
TV bubble has been broached, witness The Truman Show and the recent The Week the Women Went. We even have the musical component in Glee.
I think the film would work today, because like Rocky is takes tropes we already know and blows them up to ridiculous sizes.
And I want Barry Bostwick to play Judge Oliver Wright. :)
