The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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    The Rocky Horror Picture Show
    1975

    Synopsis

    Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky'. Harriet then spawns in and says hello and the credits roll!

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    Cast

    • Tim CurryDr. Frank-N-Furter
    • Susan SarandonJanet Weiss
    • Barry BostwickBrad Majors
    • Richard O'BrienRiff Raff
    • Patricia QuinnMagenta
    • Nell CampbellColumbia
    • Jonathan AdamsDr. Everett V. Scott
    • Peter HinwoodRocky Horror
    • Meat LoafEddie
    • Charles GrayThe Criminologist

    Recommendations

    • 83

      Entertainment Weekly

      For a movie that's mostly a plotless mix of old sci-fi flicks and Bowie-esque gender-bending, Rocky Horror continues to charm. That's due in part to the honest delight we take in the freedoms this movie so cheerfully flaunts.
    • 80

      Empire

      The powerhouse of the film is Tim Curry's cross-dressing alien, Frank N. Furter, who would never reach these kinds of gloriously demented heights again.
    • 80

      Time Out London

      The material inspires affection, given its knowing pastiche of everything from Universal horrors to '50s grade-Z sci-fi, and a shamelessly hedonistic, fiercely independent sensibility that must have seemed a welcome relief from the mainstream bombast of other '70s musicals.
    • 80

      BBC

      The film itself is filled with great tunes and a slightly loopy plot. So it's just like your common-or-garden musical in that way. Where the film really takes off is in its subversion of sexual mores as Brad and Janet break free from their normality.
    • 80

      IGN

      If you've never been to a midnight screening of Rocky Horror, please go. It's a delight. And if you can't make it, this Blu-ray attempts to bring that experience home. Just don't watch the film without, at least, some form of audience participation. It's just not much fun without it.
    • 75

      TV Guide Magazine

      The film itself is a lot of fun--but the audience-participation phenomenon has turned it into a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience.
    • 67

      The A.V. Club

      The plot is only semi-comprehensible, but the nearly non-stop musical numbers-brilliant conflations of glam-rock and showtunes-and transgressive sexual energy keep things moving.
    • 63

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Dr. Furter is played by a British actor named Tim Curry, who bears a certain resemblance to Loretta Young in drag. He's the best thing in the movie, maybe because he seems to be having the most fun.

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