Disney+ UK shares The Time Warp in full
The newly posted song offers a way into Rocky Horror’s stage origins and the audience rituals that took its performances beyond the screen.
The short answer: The newly posted song offers a way into Rocky Horror’s stage origins and the audience rituals that took its performances beyond the screen.
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The Time Warp is back in the spotlight on Disney+ UK’s YouTube channel. Published on 23 October 2026, the full-song video from The Rocky Horror Picture Show offers a musical way into a film whose audience became part of the performance.
For anyone who knows the dance better than the story, the film follows newly engaged Brad and Janet, played by Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon, into a castle hosting an unusual Transylvanian convention. Tim Curry’s Dr Frank-N-Furter is their host; horror and science fiction supply the musical’s playground.
From a London stage to the screen
The Rocky Horror Show began at London’s Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in June 1973. Richard O’Brien wrote its book, music and lyrics, drawing on 1950s rock ’n’ roll and the low-budget science-fiction films of his youth. Those influences also reached the film’s production: some filming took place at Bray Studios, where Hammer Horror films that had inspired O’Brien were made.
The 1975 film carried several performers across from the stage. O’Brien returned as Riff Raff, Patricia Quinn as Magenta and Nell “Little Nell” Campbell as Columbia, while Curry reprised Frank-N-Furter. They were bringing characters to the screen that they had already played in the theatre.
When the audience joined in
Participation was already part of the stage show’s appeal. A historical account published by Sight and Sound records that instructions for dancing The Time Warp were handed out after performances. Audiences had an invitation to join in before the film developed its midnight-screening following.
At the cinema, spectators added another live layer. The same account describes audiences dressing as characters and reproducing their gestures beneath the screen, alongside an evolving repertoire of shouted responses to the dialogue. In a 2024 San Francisco Chronicle interview, Quinn recalled travelling to New York with O’Brien to witness the phenomenon.
We couldn’t bloody believe it, it was extraordinary. Patricia Quinn, speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle in 2024
The upload’s description also includes an invitation to stream The Rocky Horror Picture Show and a link to the film’s UK Disney+ page.