![]() It belongs on a stage, with the performers and audience joining in a collective send-up.” Little did he know that’s exactly what would happen. Robert Ebert’s original review of the film said “ The Rocky Horror Picture Show would be more fun, I suspect, if it weren’t a picture show. Most people didn’t get it and many others found its themes of queerness, cross-dressing, and sexual promiscuity to be unholy and disgusting. Critically panned and a box office bust, the movie was a disaster. When The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in 1975, it was an absolute failure. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) 20th Century Fox In the years since its release, it’s gained a massive queer following, and actress Robin Tunney, who plays Sarah in the film, even says that Natalie Portman has admitted the movie is her favorite guilty pleasure. It’s fun, it’s campy, and it’s oh-so-totally ’90s. The story, about four teenage witches in Los Angeles who become immeasurably more powerful when they combine their energy, is technically an R-rated horror film, but instead feels more like Clueless with witchcraft. ![]() It wasn’t until The Craft began airing on TV and hit the rental market that the movie started gaining a following. The Craft was just a so-so hit that luckily earned more than its budget…but only by about $10 million. For comparison, that same year Scream raked in over $173 million and the following year I Know What You Did Last Summer brought in over $125 million. So it wasn't surprising that we got our hat handed to us a little bit at the box office.The Craft wasn’t necessarily the biggest box office bomb ever, but its box office gross of $24.5 million is nothing compared to the other ’90s horror movies of its day. I mean, it is a fun movie, but it doesn't fit that mold. ![]() Event Horizon, it's not a fun summer popcorn movie. That was really when we should have been released. It's like, we're a really dark, disturbing science-fiction movie, we should be in the fall, we should be Halloween, or in November. You know: Oh, my God, you want to release my movie in the middle of the summer? To compete against a Harrison Ford movie where he plays the President of America? That sounds great! Of course, what I should have been was really concerned, like: Oh, my God, we're going to get killed. Looking back, if I'd been more experienced as a filmmaker, I would have pushed back against the studio about the release date. Whenever I bump into him, he's always very pleasant, and I love him as a filmmaker. No! Listen, Cameron has been very vocal about how he likes my Alien vs. The end result was, the majority of what you see onscreen is real, and reality holds up well, whereas nothing dates as fast as cutting-edge CG. Given a choice between having Laurence Fishburne on a blue screen and building an upside-down set into which we stuck Laurence upside-down and spun him round and round, we'd do. And if you can't do it for real, do as much as possible for real." Instead of going with cutting-edge CG, we would build big models of the spaceships, we would build big interiors for the sets, we'd try and do as much practical as possible. I said to Richard, "How did you manage that?" And he said, "Just do it for real. You looked at their visual effects 15 years afterwards and they just didn't look dated, they looked like they'd just been made. He'd worked on all these terrific movies like Blade Runner and 2001. I think one of the reasons why the movie continues to look really good is, I had an excellent visual effects supervisor, Richard Yuricich, whose favorite kind of visual effect was no visual effect.
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