Shock Treatment Review

A sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show that completely failed to capture the audience of that genuine cult sleeper, this has been very rarely seen, even on double bills with Rocky Horror, and so you might feel curious enough to check it out. Actually, it has a rather better score than the first film courtesy of Richard O’Brien, and heroine Jessica Harper stops the show several times with sizzling dance numbers, but the storyline is a wash-out and it doesn’t really connect with the well-remembered transvestites-from-outer-space movie. Set in a small American town that’s also a TV station, it’s full of obvious jokes about game shows, medical soap operas and family sit-coms, and features a semi-name cast— Barry Humphries, Rik Mayall, Nell Campbell, Ruby Wax—not really doing very much.