The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Fasten your garter belt and come up to the lab and see what's on the slab! It's The Rocky Horror Picture Show Special Edition, a screamingly funny, sinfully twisted salute to sci-fi, horror, B-movies and rock music, all rolled into one deliciously decade

The Power of Good Living

It's fantastic to revisit a movie decades later and still find delightful. It reaffirms one's faith in the power of good living...

ANYWAY, this is my favorite of three musicals. It is an ode to rock-and-roll. It is a passionate muezzin-call of joie-de-vivre rising to the very heavens and it is NOT some watered-down yuppie b.s., and/or pretentious imitation of a redubbed remake...

**Susan Sarandon's** name will forever be pronounced with respect & tenderest adoration because of her performance herein. **Tim Curry** became the Patron Saint of the Trans-DamnNearAnything because of his work herein. Tim O'Brien, Barry Bostwick and even Meatloaf never had to worry about getting a real job after this bronzed titan among cult flix let its freak-flag fly... If you ever even thought that you like 'indie' films, this was a turning point and is an uber-touchstone. July 7, 2008

Let there be Lips

A biazarre film and a work of genius. It pokes fun at virtually everything including old science fiction movies; horror movies; transvestites: homosexuals; incest; professional spokesmen; sexual innocence; UFO's; cannibalism and even Nazi Germany.

Franknfurter, or whatever his name is, has the qualities of a transvestite, bisexual Count Dracula and Dr. Frankenstein. He's also an "evil" person who seduces both Brad an Janet. He's also quite a scientist and has produced the perfect man--"I've made me a man with blond hair and...a tan to ease my tension." This has elements of Nazi racial theory. "It's a triumph of your Vill!!! an excited Magenta emotes [Triumph of the Will by Leni Raftenstein on the up-and-coming Adolf Hitler]. Unfortunately, this blond superman is used for Frank's carnal purposes, another slap at Nazi theory.

Anyway, it's all a lot of fun right up until the very end when the persecuted and Igor-like Riff Raff, dressed like a rather extreme Flash Gordon character, and Magenta, with white streaked hair reminiscent of the "Bride of Frankenstein", show up to blast Frank and his one-time girl friend Columbia, with absolutely ridiculous ray guns.

It's all unbelievably stupid which makes it a near perfect comedy.

Now I have a question for all those who read my review. A couple of years ago I saw a rather bad movie called "Return to the Valley of the Dolls" produced, I think, a year or two before "Rocky". It has many for the features of "Rocky" and I wonder if "Rocky" ripped off "Return" or vice versa. Does anybody have the answer?

Ron Braithwaite June 6, 2008

Wonderfully hilarious movie!

I will be totally honest, I'm 26 years old and I didn't watch this movie until I was 23, because I was skeptical and I didn't think I would like it. Boy was I wrong!! From the first musical number til the very end, I had a grin plastered on my face. This is a different sort of tale, but very exciting and I absolutely LOVE musicals so it's right up my alley. Tim Curry is incredible as Frankenfurter, Susan Sarandon SINGS in this movie, using her real voice! And Barry Bostwick is hilarious as Brad Majors. May 11, 2008

Awesome

You definitely would have to love strange movie plots to enjoy this movie. I happened to fall into the "cult" if you will, of this movie in my late teens, and enjoy to this day in my mid-forties. March 3, 2008

It's just a jump to the left

I ask you, how can a person NOT like this film???? Undeniably one of the best midnight b-movies that has ever come out. I mean there are other cult films like Eraserhead, Wizards, Cannibal Holocaust, and so forth,...but the Rocky Horror Picture Show is the absolute KING (or Queen) of midnight cult classics. This is not just a film.....it is a right of passage. You follow characters who have their own quirks and just trying to make it through a situation. I'm not going to try and explain the film.....it's something you just have to watch, preferably with a group of friends who have seen it many times.
September 18, 2007

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