The Rocky Horror Picture Show
| release date | August 14 1975 |
| studio | 20th Century Fox |
| director | Jim Sharman |
| writer | Richard O'Brian |
| starring | Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Meat Loaf |
| rating | R |
| tagline | Action-packed... lotsa larfs & sex... gorgeous gals... thrills & chills... Transylvanian parties... |
| site | rockyhorror.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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meh
AHHHHH OMFG! i love this movie it is so amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the best cult movies of all time, hands down.
This is the best movie ever made!!
this has been my all time favorite move since I was 7 years old.
I guess I can almost see someone liking this… personally I think it’s lame and very over-rated. Live show is worth watching though
i guess this movie is a case of severe love or hate , you either hate it or love it , no in-betweens !
i happen to be on the side of L-O-V-FUCKING-E this movie !
its been a favorite of mine since i was 11 , when i first got my hands on the VHS of this baby .
for the fans who are into it , knowing the lyrics , music , dances or dialogue , ide DEFINETLY say its much better to see it live , or at a midnight viewing !
but if you have never seen this film before , i suggest you sit down and watch it at home , and pay attention or you will most likely get lost .
all in all , i love this movie , especially because it would be impossible to imitate or throw a sequel to it , it is both untouchable and irreplaceable !
10/10
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this!!! no one can ever make a movie that even comes close to being as good as this movie.
Hands down, this is a classic… always a fun movie to watch. Tim Curry is amazing.
love it
This is one of the most ultimate movies EVER!
This is a classic. It isn’t a horror movie, per say, but a pop culture phenomenon. See it!
As of 2009, it’s official that there have been more classic horror rehashes/remakes/homage films than actual classic horror films. It’s almost humorous when a movie like Hatchet or Wrong Turn will come around and proclaim to the masses that it’s here to bring back oldschool horror . . . for literally the 500th time. Obviously, there is something about nostalgia of overtly bad movies that captivates directors and audiences alike. In modern cinema, nostalgia has become such a driving force that things like originality, intelligence, and quality have been discarded. So, looking back on The Rocky Horror Picture Show from a modern viewpoint, I can’t help but find it refreshing to say the least. Instead of just wholesale copy/pasting past films, The Rocky Horror Picture Show relives nostalgia through semi-original ideas. If more modern homage films must be made–and I really wish they weren’t, but it’s inevitable–and if they have to copy/paste anything, then they should copy/paste The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s formula.
It’s always hard to review a film that everyone loves but you’ve just seen for the first time. Very few movies mean the same to the modern viewer what they are to those who saw it at midnight on the day it was released. I watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time last night, and it simply failed to awe me. Do not misunderstand me: I’m not saying it’s a bad movie by any stretch of my words, but it was just a little dull. I can’t put my finger on why, exactly–it just was. I guess it could have been due to the overhype it receives. I was expecting some god-awesome transvestite musical with a plot like none other and characters that I’d never forget. In reality, The Rocky Horror Picture Show was just average, even for its time. It’s creative, but it’s not original. The characters are memorable, but they’re not wholesale unforgettable. The jokes are funny, but they’re a lot more typical than I thought they’d be. The entire movie is intentionally pumped with clichés, but that dulls it all rather than creates obvious homage. Maybe I’m being overly critical, but I’d go as far as to say I was very disappointed.
What I’m trying to say is this: The Rocky Horror Picture show isn’t as amazing to the first-time viewer as it’s hyped to be.
All the actors play their roles perfectly. Tim Curry certainly does not disappoint. But a lot of the supporting characters are all just clichés-with-legs, and that really dulls the movie further. It’s as if they were rejected by The Munsters and The Adam’s Family and decided to get together and make a movie with the exact same exact character profiles. It’s sad to see such a lack of imagination on less important details.
The story itself primarily unfolds in a single room, and that gets boring quickly. Though there is a lot of homage to sci-fi/horror films, there isn’t enough of it. The writers incorporate a few over-the-top 40s moments, but they’re few and far between. The story itself is mostly a long, linier cliché, and I do not think that was intentional. Even if it was, it’s boring. It’s predictable. It doesn’t hold your attention. Once your mind can get past the awesome-creepy Tim Curry character, everything just falls into predictability.
So, as you can hopefully tell, my review contradicts itself more than once. One paragraph I call The Rocky Horror Picture Show a great movie, then the next I call it pathetic. But those contradictory statements represent how I feel about the overall movie. It’s both semi-original and painfully predictable. It’s certainly not everything that the hype says it is, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve that hype. AHH! Okay, before I contradict myself again . . .
Overall: The Rocky Horror Picture show is an essential piece of cinema. It demands at least one viewing. However, it isn’t as imaginative as it appears to be.
After years of people telling me to see it, I saw it.. Entertaining, good songs (and I don;t care for musicals) and good lines.. Nothing amazing, but better then alot of other flicks I’ve caught… Worth a watch, though I can;t understand how people can find it odd or disturbing, I found it pretty tame..A good bad movie.
a macabre circus of music and sex.
classic fun.
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!
Epic. Fucking. Win.
pure joy, fun to watch, keeps me and my friend in awe and amazement! one of a kind movie =] 10/10
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Not really my cup of tea. Way overated.
why…. Ill never understand the attraction…
anyone who does not like the rocky horror picture show should be put to death! this movie is the greatest creation in living history the fact that its still alive and popular after 30 years prooves that!!
A timeless musical classic…A definitive love or loath movie. There is no denying Rocky Horror’s charm and whit. Excellent performances, Fabulous set pieces and one of the best movie musical soundtracks still to this day. Inventive yet not completely original (which is the whole point!!)
Rocky Horror pokes fun at at the B movie genre, Sci Fi pop culture and throws in the mix some unforgettable musical numbers and acid tongued dialogue, with a truly amazing performance from Curry.
So…Don’t Dream It, Be It and bring on the lips!! :}
Amazing movie. Tim Curry’s performance is perfect. This movie is guaranteed to thrill you, chill you, and fulfill you.
I didn’t really care for it the first time I saw it but when Glee did their episode I figured I’d give it another shot and I loved it. It’s a movie that gets better each time I watch it! It’s fun and it has great musical numbers. I highly recommend it!
A true cult classic !!
Well “The Rocky Horror Show” definitely isn’t for everyone, it’s crazy, it’s psycodelic, it’s even more crazy! But, it is for me. “Rocky Horror” is a high camp (no I’m not gay) fun flick that will have your toes tapping to the catchy beat of the songs.
The songs were great in this especially “Time Warp” that is so catchy and fun, the whole film is just like one big music video and I think that is one of the problems with it. I think this is more of a theater show than a “picture” show, but in a weird sort of way it did work.
I didn’t quite understand the storyline and I think that could’ve been developed more, when it got to the end I didn’t know what the heck was happening but i didn’t really care because it was just so much fun. It’s like the big mum at the end of “Brain Dead” you don’t know why but you don’t really care wither because it’s too outgrageous!
Tim Curry had a ball, he was super hammy and delightful as Dr. Foster or whatever the name was. Susan Sarandon was just a little too hammy for me, you could have got a pig to play her part and it would be less hammy.
Anywho, it was fun and I haven’t seen anything like it. Give it go
Indeed, one of my favorite movies of all time. I’ll never forget it.
Pure fun. LET’S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!!!
this was really funny. i thought Tim Curry was awesome in his role as Dr. Frankenfurter, i think that was his name. anyways, this is a must see because it’s just all out fun.
funny, witty, but too gay. It says horror on it, but there’s none of that.
But seriously, Tim Curry freaking rules. He’s an amazing actor.
Fun as hell! Hollywood better NOT try to remake it. You can’t touch this movie! Bizarre.Catchy.Transvestite-y.
This is intended for Drug use!Fun musical,odd ball cast,and a crazy plot.I love it,light on Horror, but it’s not meant to be for everyone.A cult classic indeed!
Though there are one or two other amazing horror musicals and/or parodies (Phantom Of The Paradise, Young Frankenstein) there’s something about Rocky that stands alone. Perhaps because it combines the best of everything, really fucking well. All songs are killer, all characters well-defined, perfectly-cast and brilliantly unforgettable, the humour is biting, the costumes are fabulous, the sets and scenery appropriately atmospheric, and the homages are absolutely spot on, in everything from filming style to plot. That’s only a perfunctory list of the immediate advantages this film has – in reality, it goes a lot deeper for a whole lot of people (myself included). It has ‘the very… spark of life!’ to use Frank’s phrase. This movie will never die.
A great, classic, movie; I love the songs, I love the characters, and I love the story.