The Rocky Horror Picture Show wit to be "too weak to sustain a film" and thought that the "songs all sound the same". In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" helped shape conditions of cult film's transition from art-house to grind-house style. The film developed a cult following in 1976 at the Waverly Theatre in New York, which developed into a standardised ritual. According to J. Hoberman, author of "Midnight Movies", it was after five months into the film's midnight
The Rocky Horror Picture Show television series over the years. Episodes of "The Simpsons", "The Venture Bros.", "The Boondocks", "Glee", "The Drew Carey Show", "That '70s Show", and "American Dad!" spotlight "Rocky Horror", as do films such as "Vice Squad" (1982), "Halloween II" (2009), and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" (2012). The 1980 film "Fame" featured the audience reciting their callback lines to the screen and dancing the Time Warp, the dance from the stage show and film, which has become a novelty dance at parties. Director Rob Zombie cited "Rocky Horror" as a major influence on his film "House of 1000 Corpses" (2003),