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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters. Through elaborate dance and rock music, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man.
1975 · Directed by Jim Sharman · 100 min · Comedy · Science Fiction · Horror · Screenplay in the scene database · 51 frames
Tagline
A different set of jaws.
Plot
The film begins with a pair of floating disembodied lips welcoming the audience to a science fiction double feature ("Science Fiction/Double Feature"). Throughout the film, a criminologist from an unspecified point in the future narrates and provides commentary on the events.
Following the wedding of their friends, a naïve young couple, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, get engaged and decide to celebrate with their high-school science teacher Dr. Scott, who taught the class where they first met ("Dammit Janet"). En route to Scott's house on a dark and rainy night, they get lost and suffer a flat tyre. Seeking a telephone to call for help, the couple walks to a nearby castle ("Over at the Frankenstein Place") where a party is being held. They are accepted in by the strangely dressed inhabitants, led by the butler Riff Raff, the maid Magenta, and a groupie named Columbia, who dance to "The Time Warp". Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite mad scientist, introduces himself and invites them to stay for the night ("Sweet Transvestite").
With the help of Riff Raff, Frank brings to life a tall, muscular, handsome blond man named Rocky ("The Sword of Damocles"). As Frank vows he can improve Rocky into an ideal man in a week ("I Can Make You a Man"), Eddie, a motorcyclist with a bandaged head, breaks out of a deep freeze ("Hot Patootie – Bless My Soul"). Frank kills Eddie with an ice axe, justifying it as a "mercy killing". Rocky and Frank depart for the bridal suite ("I Can Make You a Man (Reprise)").
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Richard O'Brien, Jim Sharman
- Cinematography: Peter Suschitzky
- Edited by: Graeme Clifford
- Music: Richard Hartley
- Production design: Brian Thomson
- Produced by: Michael White
Cast
- Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
- Susan Sarandon as Janet Weiss
- Barry Bostwick as Brad Majors
- Richard O'Brien as Riff Raff
- Patricia Quinn as Magenta
- Nell Campbell as Columbia
- Jonathan Adams as Dr. Everett V. Scott
- Peter Hinwood as Rocky Horror
- Meat Loaf as Eddie
- Charles Gray as The Criminologist
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America, Netherlands Antilles
- Language: English, German
- Studios: 20th Century Fox, Lou Adler Productions, Michael White Productions, Houtsnede Maatschappij
- Budget: $1,400,000
- Box office: $171,181,400
- Themes: sexual identity, rock 'n' roll, transvestism, time warp, transylvania, transvestite, group sex, halloween, seduction, castle
On this film
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