Shock Treatment has been widely touted as Rocky Horror successor. Can reduce it to this film, however. The musical comes as Rocky Horror, written by Richard O'Brien, who will take a lead role in the play here as well. In addition, Charles Gray, Pat Quinn and Little Nell are back on the field again. However, other guest stars are well worth seeing: Ruby Wax (later on BBC to Talk icon with their comedy cult talk show "The Full Wax"), Christopher Malcolm (the Ur-Brad Majors in the Rocky Horror Show stage production 1973 in London and later Saffy's father in the BBC's cult comedy "Absolutely Fabulous") and Barry Humphries, best known as Dame Edna, kompletieren the already iconic cast. The story? Brad and Janet, the Spieserpaar from the Rocky Horror Show are now married and live naturally in piefigen Denton - The Home of Happiness. There now is a local commercial station went into operation. Denton TV. And what makes this film an absolutely bitter satire on private channels and especially Superstar cult (where the film from 1981 !!!). Janet is built unceremoniously separated from Brad and self-confident star of the transmitter in the show "Marriage Maze" (a kind of couples therapy on commercial TV). Brad is put into a straitjacket and pumped full of behind the scenes with drugs. Janet's parents are involved and already created for the private broadcasters a docu-soap à la Big Brother. Wonderfully cynical, ruthless, brilliant music of Richard O'Brien. Too bad that a DVD release will probably never take place. Shock Treatment is only known to a small audience and was also (thankfully) never synchronized! You need a bit of ... uuuuh ... Shock Treatment !! CULT!
