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A few years beforehand, he made the movie Office Space about an overworked and underappreciated white-collar programmer in Texas who never stands up for himself. Idiocracy wasn’t Mike Judge’s first foray into cult classic territory. But in the rental and DVD market, the movie exploded in popularity and has become more and more relevant since its release. 20th Century Fox, the film’s distributor, was worried the movie would offend people and upset corporate Hollywood, so it stymied Idiocracy from the start, only releasing it in a few theaters.
Making the movie even more unintentionally meta is the fact that its poor initial box office earnings of just $495,000 is directly due to the politics of capitalism that Idiocracy mocked. In 2021 The Guardian even said, “This disturbingly hilarious film is as horrifying as 1984 or Brave New World, but takes a different route – emphasizing the dangers of collective incompetence rather than oppressiveness of the state.” In recent years, as more and more Americans willingly fell victim to fake news, conspiracy theories, and bigotry, the movie has become depressingly prescient and has gained tons of attention because of it. The movie was set in the future, where radicalization, nationalism, militarism, capitalism, consumerism, and commercialization have ruined society, turning the population into a blubbering race of morons. Mike Judge’s Idiocracy was a polarizing film.
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It’s since gone on to gross hundreds of millions of dollars and spawned a sequel, a TV remake, and it even got its own special episode on Glee. It has continuously been played every week in some theater around the world and in many major cities it’s a monthly (or even weekly) affair. The film has become the longest-running theatrical release in history and, to date, has never ended its original run. Rocky Horror celebrated the weird, the wild, the wrong, and the wondrous. Word of mouth spread and people (generally outcasts) came to watch the film because, for the first time in Hollywood history, they were the ones on-screen.
It belongs on a stage, with the performers and audience joining in a collective send-up.” Little did he know that’s exactly what would happen. Robert Ebert’s original review of the film said “ The Rocky Horror Picture Show would be more fun, I suspect, if it weren’t a picture show. Most people didn’t get it and many others found its themes of queerness, cross-dressing, and sexual promiscuity to be unholy and disgusting. Critically panned and a box office bust, the movie was a disaster. When The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in 1975, it was an absolute failure.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) 20th Century Fox In the years since its release, it’s gained a massive queer following, and actress Robin Tunney, who plays Sarah in the film, even says that Natalie Portman has admitted the movie is her favorite guilty pleasure. It’s fun, it’s campy, and it’s oh-so-totally ’90s. The story, about four teenage witches in Los Angeles who become immeasurably more powerful when they combine their energy, is technically an R-rated horror film, but instead feels more like Clueless with witchcraft. It wasn’t until The Craft began airing on TV and hit the rental market that the movie started gaining a following. The Craft was just a so-so hit that luckily earned more than its budget…but only by about $10 million. For comparison, that same year Scream raked in over $173 million and the following year I Know What You Did Last Summer brought in over $125 million. The Craft wasn’t necessarily the biggest box office bomb ever, but its box office gross of $24.5 million is nothing compared to the other ’90s horror movies of its day.
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