Going through some old newspapers and I found this listing of two different movie theaters in the same city both showing
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW at the same time. No clue if either one of them had a shadowcast, but it gave me the idea for a short story (or even a series of novels) about a long-running gang war between two different shadowcasts that both operate in an extremely small city. There is only two single-screen theaters in town and both are on the main street near the only traffic light in town. Neither are allowed to burn the other theater down, due to respect to Rocky, so instead they just do silly stuff like messing with each others costumes and cue cards. I can think up thousands of other ideas, but too depressed right now. I'd enjoy seeing an actual voodoo priest involved somehow.
[Update 08/20/2025: Been thinking a little about the voodoo priest character and I think he (or she or they) should be a voodoo priest tough guy. His signature move is to cleanly cut off a person's nutsack and let them live, then sew the ball to the inside top lining of his old beat-up pick-up truck. When he feels like it or is angry, he punches the balls and the person who the balls used to belong to would still feel the pain in their phantom ballz. One time, the voodoo priest wreck his truck and he tumbled end over end and dozens of ball-less dudes all over the world simultaneously started writhing in pain as their balls smashed into each other.
[Update 08/21/2025: Thought about it a little more and such a violent character doesn't really fit in with my idea of the Rocky Horror gang war, so I'm going to move the voodoo priest enforcer / ballsack enchanter over to my moonshine warfare story that I've been working on (for my own private reading) for a while now. Oh yeah, the two Rocky gangs might be fighting over the UK versus US versions. One theater shows one and the other shows the, uh, other. But at the end of the story (which might be like 10 or so books in) will have the groups coming together to do a Science Fiction Double Feature and showing both films one after the other.]
