Shock Treatment

How many supposed The Rocky Horror Picture Show fans don’t even know there’s a sequel? Well, less a sequel and more a follow-up, with genius provocateur Richard O’Brien following the further psychosexual misadventures of Brad and Janet (now played by Cliff DeYoung and Jessica Harper) and their respective emotional meltdowns after the first film. Cover story subject of the very first Austin Chronicle, there’s none of the sing-along B-movie homage fun of the first film, but rather a depressingly prescient warning about the rise of reality TV, set to a New Wave soundtrack. – Richard Whittaker