When did you first see this? Where were you? What did you think?

Junior year of Hogh School if I remember right, and no one actually took me, my girlfriend at the time and I were huge fans and we fojnd out about it showing on Friday nights so we wentand it was everything I hoped it would be, such a good time.

I was 4 or 5, maybe a little older, when I watched it for the first time. It was one of my Dad's favorite movies. He had it on one night and I got sucked in by the costumes, singing, and Tim Curry. I recognized his voice from another of my favorite movies, Legend.

From that moment on my Dad and I would watch it together every Halloween night as a tradition. He's passed that tradition down to his other daughters and at least one of them watches with her son.

I experienced the film one afternoon in 1976 or 1977 ( or some time thereabouts) at the Westwood Theater in Toledo Ohio. I was 30 years old then, familiar with the story from reading about the source play long before there was any likelihood that I'd ever see it. The total audience was maybe 20 people. It was before the midnight show participatory cult caught on, so I was fortunate in being able to watch and listen to the dialog without distractions. That's always been an advantage because the next two viewings were among the customary crowds and the audience had become the focus. Those were less enjoyable experiences.

I've always thought the crowds missed part of the point of the show. I learned that every showing had a lead Master of events who enforced the "correct" rituals for a particular location. Deviations were met with disfavor. Think of Donald Trump responding to protesters at a rally. And that subverts the underlying anarchic basis of the original.
Frank is a radical individualist whose transgressions against social/sexual norms define the character as an Outsider. Riff's rebellion and punishment of Frank represent the oppressive and repressive society of the audience. So enforcement of RULES is a co-optation that allows audience participants to think they are doing something enticingly forbidden while they are being controlled. They are having fun, in what very quickly became an approved way. I'm old enough to think that Marcuse's "repressive desublimation" describes the situation.

That said, I've watched the 1975 film 6 times, and attended a live production of the original stage show. Those viewings remain meaningful for me but I won't go near a midnight frolic in the years that remain to me.

At 65, I'm trying to watch it for the first time on TV, mainly because I like Susan Sarandon. My first reaction was, "What a load of ####", but it's odd enough that my curiosity may keep me watching.

Was never interested when it debuted and after that, the cult standing was a turnoff. Granted, I'm not the target audience, but I never realized my generation was that disturbed.

Valentines night with my boyfriend in 7th grade up in his room. I didn't "get it" but I liked that it was unique and that I could shock my parents a bit by telling them I'd seen it at my young age.

I was 11, watching it in my living room on VHS and I was absolutely amazed. It became my most watched movie ever. I loved it. I think I was a very weird, random kid.

I heard Time Warp on the radio sometime in the 70s and I thought damn that's a cool song. I never knew about the movie, since I lived in the sticks, and our local grocery store carried magazines showing interesting stuff from unimaginably far away like New York or Los Angeles, and I saw vague references to this weird film. I never saw the film until the 1990s when it was shown on TV, I think it was VH1 and I heard Time Warp and I thought oh, that's why they played that song on the radio way back then. I've loved the film ever since, and I wish when it was released there were some way my twelve-year-old self could have actually seen it in a theater in 1975. Tim Curry is brilliant, but then I guess he was able to perfect the role after many stage performances. The songs are still catchy, and the subtext of corrupted morals and one-percenter decadence still resonates today.

I'm 22, was 13-14 the first time I saw it.

It was kinda funny, I woke up from a nap one night and my friend was over watching it with my sister and her friend. I walked in pretty late in the movie, I think maybe the dinner scene or right after. I was so confused and bewildered, but they loved it so much they started it over so I could watch from the beginning.

My uncle was involved with the midnight screenings every weekend when he was younger, so when he heard that my friends and I had seen it and loved it, he taught us what to do and say during the theater screenings. We went every year after.