Shock Treatment is a 1981 comedy-musical and a follow up to the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. While not an outright sequel, the movie does feature several characters from the movie portrayed by different actors and several Rocky Horror actors portraying new characters.
Shock Treatment was a TV film in 1995. The film was directed by Michael Schultz. It received one nomination for best visual effects in 1996 at the Gemini Awards.
Following on from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", this musical is set several years later in Brad and Janet Majors' hometown - which has become a giant TV station; residents are either participants or viewers. They are married now, but their romance has fallen on the rocks. Ostensibly to fix their marriage, Brad is imprisoned on the program "Dentonvale" (the local mental hospital) while Janet is conscripted to become a new star. As Janet is entranced by the high life, she forgets Brad. Who is trying to woo her away? Written by Miss Rori Stevens
Following 6 years after The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a musical continues the adventures of Brad (Cliff De Young) and Janet (Jessica Harper), now married, back home in Denton which has been turned into a giant TV station. Residents are either participants or viewers of the shows. Brad is imprisoned in "Dentonvale", the local mental hospital while Janet is to become a huge star. Who is trying to woo Janet away? With Richard O'Brien as "Dentonvale" doctor Cosmo McKinley, Patricia Quinn as his "sister & colleague" Nation, Nell Campbell as Nurse Ansalong, Cliff De Young also playing Farley Flavors, a local tycoon, and Charles Gray as Judge Oliver Wright in the Lou Adler and Michael White production of Shock Treatment. Written by Corey Semple
Final film of Douglass Dumbrille.
