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Let's do the Time Warp again. MARION McMULLEN celebrates The Rocky Horror Picture Show - the longest-running release in film history

- MARION MCMULLEN

FANS have been happily putting on fishnet stockings and corsets and doing the Time Warp in cinemas for 50 years.

Princess Diana even told Tim Curry, the film’s eccentric scientist Frank-N-Furter, that she was a fan of the movie and said: “Thank-you for completing my education.”

The Rocky Horror Picture Show initially opened to poor audiences in Los Angeles on August 14, 1975, but then midnight cinema showings began with audience participation.

It turned the film's fortunes around and it became a cult hit that quickly spread across the country and the world.

It is still being screened today making it the longest-running film release of all time.

Cinema audiences often dress as their favourite characters and bring a variety of props along to join in the onscreen action.

Newspapers are needed to be put over heads for when Brad and Janet are caught in a storm, while confetti is often thrown, as is toast, when Frank-n-Furter proposes a toast at dinner.

Ardent fans have also been known to throw hot dogs and prunes at the cinema screen when food products are mentioned.

Water pistols used to be brought in to recreate the film’s famous thunderstorm scene, before cinemas discouraged them for being a hazard.