Science Fiction / Double Feature
(Written by Richard O'Brien, from Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Michael Rennie was ill
The Day the Earth Stood Still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear
Claude Rains was The Invisible Man
Then something went wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam
Then at a deadly pace
It Came From Outer Space
And this is how the message ran...
The Day the Earth Stood Still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear
Claude Rains was The Invisible Man
Then something went wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam
Then at a deadly pace
It Came From Outer Space
And this is how the message ran...
Science fiction (ooh ooh ooh) double feature
Doctor X (ooh ooh ooh) will build a creature
See androids fighting (ooh ooh ooh) Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in (ooh ooh ooh) Forbidden Planet
Wo oh oh oh oh oh
At the late night, double feature, picture show
I knew Leo G. Carroll
Was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills
And I really got hot
When I saw Janette Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills
Dana Andrews said prunes
Gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills
But When Worlds Collide
Said George Pal to his bride
I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills
Science fiction (ooh ooh ooh) double feature
Doctor X (ooh ooh ooh) will build a creature
See androids fighting (ooh ooh ooh) Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in (ooh ooh ooh) Forbidden Planet
Wo oh oh oh oh oh
At the late night, double feature, picture show
I wanna go - Oh oh oh oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show
By R.K.O. - Wo oh oh oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show
In the back row - Oh oh oh oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show
Last week we went to see a couple more shows at the Stratford Festival - a double feature as it were - and as this song served as the intro to our day of theatre, it'll serve as my intro here with no deeper meaning intended (and, yes, I could have used a more upbeat tune, but I really was looking forward to stressing the "double feature" aspect.) I should start the whole thing off by noting that Rocky Horror, the movie, is a huge favourite with the rest of my family (when discussing it over dinner later, I was totally shot down when I said, "Can we at least agree that the movie itself - without the fun audience participation - is garbage?") This love leads to this kind of dressup fandom (too bad Mal's fishnets don't show up in the bad cellphone picture; she looked pretty cute):
And that, as we drove home near midnight, made for the most engaging of conversations; discussing with the whole family our late night, double feature, picture show.