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[quote=Anonymous]I remember going in the 80s and it was very cool because the audience participation was so well adapted to the moment and the geographic area.  There were specific call-backs that referenced Reagan and specific issues of the moment (like Nancy Reagan's Just Say No campaign, as well as whatever international thing was going on at the moment, like Libya or Grenada).  There were also specific call-outs to some local cultural issues -- e.g., I saw this in a college town, and there were some really cutting call-outs about the "cool kids" frats/sororities.  In the 80's, it was shown at this particular art house theater every Saturday at midnight, and it had a cult following of people that were invested in developing the audience story.

I saw it again the 90s in a showing where it was just randomly being shown -- not part of the local counter-culture, and it was indescribably lame.   It's a terrible movie, so without the counter-culture that developed around it many decades ago, it is just really pointless.

It was also an open space for queer and trans teens and young people to gather, back when there weren't a lot of those spaces in most towns.  I don't think the cultural context would be the same now.[/quote]

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