"Don't dream it, be it!"

Author's Rating:

Pros: Great cast, great story, great transexual fun!

Cons: You kind of feel the need to slap the cookie-cutter couple.

The Bottom Line: 
Don't let your kids in on this movie!

Author's Review
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 1975
Directed by Jim Sharman
Written by Richard O'Brien and Jim Sharman
Genre: Comedy/Horror/Musical/Sci-Fi
Taglines: "Action-packed... lotsa larfs & sex... gorgeous gals... thrills & chills... Transylvanian parties... romance."
Runtime: 100 minutes


CAST
Tim Curry -- Dr. Frank-N-Furter
Susan Sarandon -- Janet Weiss
Barry Bostwick -- Brad Majors
Richard O'Brien -- Riff Raff
Patricia Quinn -- Magenta
Nell Campbell -- Columbia
Jonathan Adams -- Dr. Everett Von Scott
Peter Hinwood -- Rocky Horror
Meat Loaf -- Eddie
Charles Gray -- the Criminologist
and The Transylvanians


PLOT
This is the story about a young, "square" and "cookie-cutter" couple that have just gotten engaged. They end-up stranded in the middle-of-nowhere on a stormy and rainy night. They find a place to use a phone from, but they have no idea what they are getting themselves into. They have entered into a sort of bunch of transexual aliens, where they discover many, many things. Sexual things, of course... This exciting movie includes, among many other things: the creation of a perfect bodied idiot, the eating of MeatLoaf, the Time Warp, and other fun ideas.



This is the touching story of a great movie and obsession of mine, since I was 14 years old...

So here I was, 14, just freshly starting to rebel against my parents. I was visiting my father in Los Angeles and, as usual, I was bored out of my mind. Until my father's girlfriend's niece (hello, Ferris Bueller!) invited me to go to a "show" that she was in. So she took me to a theater at midnight. That was the first time I saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show. And not only did I see it in film format in a theater, but I also got the stage version right underneath at the same time, as well as the crowd reactions. I will explain this a little bit further down for those of you who have no idea about what I am talking about (this movie always plays on VH1 for Halloween, by the way).


The Rocky Horror Picture Show has now become THE classic cult film. Ironically, it didn't do well at all in the box office when it came out though, I think it was too much ahead of it's time. It has become such a cult thing that almost every major city in the U.S. has one theater playing it once a week. But it is not just a movie that you get to see. This phenomena has evolved into something even more incredible. What happens is that while the movie is playing on the screen, there are also actors acting the movie out underneath the screne, on a stage. And what is even more fun, is that the crowd plays a big part in this. For example (if you know the movie), when the couple is out in the rain, the audience sprays water guns, and there are also responses to lines in the movie that the crowd says, trust me, it's a lot of fun!


The characters in this movie are really fun as well. Their is Dr. Frank-n-Furter, the "leader" of the transexuals, or so it seems, who is a lonely bisexual transvestite who keeps using people, there is the cookie-cutter couple who you just want to slap, but that end-up joining in on the fun, there is the psycho, scary butler, and many more!




AND TO END IT ON THIS

Frank: A mental mind f*ck can be nice.


Frank: [singing] Whatever happened to Fay Wray / That delicate satin-draped frame / As it clung to her thigh / How I started to cry / 'Cause I wanted to be dressed just the same.


Frank: Give yourself over to absolute pleasure. Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh - erotic nightmares beyond any measure, and sensual daydreams to treasure forever. Can't you just see it? Don't dream it, be it.


The Criminologist: And crawling on this planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time. And lost in space... and meaning.


The Criminologist: [reading from dictionary] "Emotion: Agitation or disturbance of mind; vehement or excited mental state." It is also a powerful and irrational monster. And from what Magenta and Columbia eagerly viewed on their television monitor, there seemed little doubt that Janet was, indeed... its *slave*.


Frank: [singing] I'm just a sweet transvestite, from Transsexual Transylvania.


Janet: What have you done to Brad!
Frank: Nothing. Why, do you think I should?


Riff Raff: You're wet.
Janet: Yes - it's raining.


Riff Raff: Yes... I think perhaps you better both come inside.
Janet: You're too kind. Oh Brad, I'm frightened. What kind of a place is this?
Brad: Oh, it's probably some kind of hunting lodge for rich weirdos.


Riff Raff: You've arrived on a rather special night. It's one of the master's affairs.
Janet: Oh, lucky him.
Magenta: You're lucky, he's lucky, I'm lucky, we're all lucky! Ha ha ha...


Brad: [singing] Dammit, Janet, I love you.


Janet: [singing] Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch me / I wanna be dirty! Chill me, thrill me, fulfill me / Creature of the night!


Magenta: I ask for nothing!
Frank: And you shall receive it, IN ABUNDANCE!


[in song]
Riff Raff: With a bit of a mind flip
Magenta: You're into a time slip
Riff Raff: And nothing can ever be the same.
Magenta: You're spaced out on sensation. HAH!
Riff Raff: Like you're under sedation!
All: Let's do the time warp again!


Frank: So come up to the lab and see what's on the slab. I see you shiver in antici... pation.


Brad: Say, do any of you know the Madison?


Frank: Enchant". Well! How nice. And what charming underclothes you both have. But here. Put these on.They'll make you feel less... vulnerable. It's not often we receive visitors here, let alone offer them... hospitality.
Brad: Hospitality!? All we wanted to do was to use your telephone, Goddammit, a reasonable request which you've chosen to ignore!
Janet: Brad, don't be ungrateful.
Brad: Ungrateful!
Frank: How forceful you are, Brad. Such a perfect specimen of manhood. So... dominant.


Riff Raff: [singing] It's astounding, time is fleeting, madness takes its toll.


Frank: It's not easy having a good time! Even smiling makes my face ache!


Frank: In just seven days, I can make you a man. Dig it if you can.


Dr. Everett Scott: Janet!
Janet: Dr. Scott!
Brad: Janet!
Janet: Brad!
Frank: Rocky!
[Rocky grunts]
Dr. Everett Scott: Janet!
Janet: Dr. Scott!
Brad: Janet!
Janet: Brad!
Frank: Rocky!
[Rocky grunts]


Janet: If only we were amongst friends... or sane persons!


Riff Raff: Master, Rocky has broken his chain and vanished. Your new playmate is loose and somewhere in the castle grounds. Magenta has just released the dogs.


Columbia: My God! I can't stand any more of this! First you spurn me for Eddie, and then you throw him off like an old overcoat for Rocky! You chew people up and then you spit them out again... I loved you... do you hear me? I loved you! And what did it get me? Yeah, I'll tell you: a big nothing. You're like a sponge. You take, take, take, and drain others of their love and emotion. Yeah, well, I've had enough You're gonna choose between me and Rocky, so named because of the rocks in his head.