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- Mad ScientistMaster and ServantSelf DiscoverySexual RelationsFish Out of WaterGender BendingTransvestismGender more...
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- ComedyMusicalSci-Fi
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- 20th Century70s
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- Palaces Castles and Temples
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975
English
UK, USA
Profile of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The mood of The Rocky Horror Picture Show is offbeat, scary, and exciting. The plot centers around transvestism, masters and servants, and a mad scientist. It features campy humor and silly humor. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a comedy, musical, and sci-fi movie. Stylistically, it is gothic. In approach, it is not serious and fantastical. The Rocky Horror Picture Show takes place, at least partly, in a palace, castle, or temple. It happens in the 20th century. It is adapted from a play. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is known for being groundbreaking, a cult favorite, and a blockbuster. Note that it includes brief nudity and profanity.
Summary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a magical phenomenon unlike anything ever before seen onscreen. Borrowing largely from cinema's horror conventions, the film begins as an innocent young couple is stranded at the home of a mad scientist who is building the perfect man. The castle is filled with a most bizarre group of characters who worship their master, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, played magnificently by the fabulously sexy Tim Curry, in leather jacket, pearls, fishnet stockings, and heavy makeup. Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) are forced to examine their own sexuality as the voluptuous doctor releases the hidden desires in each of them.
Based on the stage musical by Richard O'Brien (who also appears in the film as Riff Raff), the film comes alive with unforgettable song-and-dance numbers that have come to represent the sexual liberation of the 1970s. The outstanding costuming and makeup, the terrific acting by a group of relative unknowns (Curry, O'Brien, Bostwick, Sarandon, Nell Campbell, Patricia Quinn, Meat Loaf), and the memorable songs ("Time Warp," "Sweet Transvestite") help make The Rocky Horror Picture Show one of the most bizarrely entertaining and satisfying musicals ever made.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, USA |
| Release date: | 26 September 1975 |
| Runtime: | 100 min |
Cast and Crew
as Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist
as Brad Majors - A Hero
as Janet Weiss - A Heroine
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- 05.September.2010
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- by: Elizabeth phelps
- Elizabeth phelps rated this movie
10/10Must See
- 21.March.2009
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- by: Carlos Mal
- Carlos Mal rated this movie10/10Must See
