Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment is throwing rice at the altar of pop culture’s greatest midnight monster. Just in time to mark 50 gloriously unhinged years of fishnets, freaks, and toast, Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror unleashes itself on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital on October 20.
This isn’t just a documentary. It’s a glitter-drenched, callback-filled, high-heeled deep dive into how a shabby little stage show mutated into the single most obsessive cult film on the planet. Rocky Horror didn’t just break new ground—it ripped out the floorboards, danced on the rubble, and told the world to shiver with antici… pation.
Featuring an all-star lineup of contributors—from Richard O’Brien and Tim Curry to Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Nell Campbell and Patricia Quinn—Strange Journey maps the show’s origin on London’s fringe theatre circuit to its takeover of late-night cinema screens worldwide. Hell, even Jack Black and Trixie Mattel show up, because let’s face it: everyone has a Rocky Horror story. And half of them involve a corset.
Directed by Linus O’Brien—yes, that O’Brien, son of the Riff Raff himself—there’s more than just history here. There’s blood. There’s sweat. And a hell of a lot of lipstick. This is Rocky stripped bare, rebuilt, and appreciated not just for the absurd spectacle, but the deeper truth baked into every verse of “Sweet Transvestite” and every shadow cast on those theatre walls. What began as a gender-bending B-movie musical became something personal. A lifeline. A sanctuary. A rebellion.
Rocky Horror didn’t just influence pop culture. It became it. The kind of phenomenon that hit harder than anyone expected—and never went away. What started in a busted theatre became a global echo chamber of weirdness, freedom, identity, and noise. And Strange Journey doesn’t just tell that story. It feels it.
Premiering at Sheffield DocFest before racking up awards like the Audience Prize at GAZE Film Festival, the film has carved out its own corner amongst this year’s must-watches—not just for horror fans, but for anyone who’s ever felt like an outsider until the lights went down and that red lip sticked mouth filled the screen.
Fifty years later, Rocky Horror isn’t a relic. It’s a revolution covered in glitter and gore.
And it’s still dancing in the aisles.
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Available on DVD, Blu-ray, and Digital October 20.
Watch the official trailer below and get ready to do the time warp—again.
