“God said: ‘Let there be lips!’”

So the audience shouts as Patricia Quinn’s disembodied, stop-sign-red mouth appears on the big screen, the luscious sneer crooning the opening number of cult film/movie musical “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

First-timers to a “Rocky Horror” midnight screening, which occur regularly at many places in the Pacific Northwest and around the world, would be forgiven for thinking they’d stumbled into an actual cult.

Loyalty pledge: check. Special outfits: check. Initiation rites and unison chanting: check and check.

Luckily this cult’s primary tenets are about having fun and being yourself, which undercuts the idea of a bad cult in a major way.

These popular screenings often feature a shadow cast (more on that later) and both new and veteran attendees fille

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