![]() ![]() Adaptation Title Change: The Rocky Horror Picture Show is based on the stage musical called The Rocky Horror Show.The narrator being made into a "criminologist" in the film, giving a reason for why he knows about the story's events.Also, the original character of Rocky had actual dialogue and personality, and was aware that he was created to be a living sex toy. Some music from the original show was cut for the film, including a whole song for Brad ("Once in a While") and a verse or two from other songs.Acme Products: A close up of one of the speakers in Frank's lab shows that it has "ACME SOUND" stencilled inside it.Frank-N-Furter, when he gets into bed with each of them, disguised as the other. Accidental Adultery: Both Janet and Brad cheat on one another when they are seduced by Dr.That special, titled The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again, premiered October 20, 2016. as well as Tim Curry himself taking up the role of the Criminologist. The special has some pretty good names attached, including Laverne Cox starring as Dr. There have been several remake attempts, none of which went anywhere, until it was announced that Fox was making a two-hour TV special set for fall of 2016. It was released in 2006 on DVD, but the quality of the transfer isn't much better than the VHS tape or LaserDisc that preceded it. It also never really took off as an Audience Participation show due to its bigger cast of characters. Its makers also weren't happy with how it turned out, due to many compromises made during its production, such as character recastings and a drastically cut budget. ![]() There is a pseudo-sequel, Shock Treatment (1981), focusing on the bizarre turns Brad and Janet's lives take upon their return to Denton after their adventure in Rocky Horror, but it was not as well-received as its predecessor. ![]() Frank-N-Furter invites them all to dinner. Scott appears looking for his nephew Eddie, and Janet and Rocky are found together. Realizing she's been cheated on by Brad, she takes an interest in the monster.Īt this point, Dr. Both victims are horrified afterwards, and Janet wanders the castle till she finds Rocky (cowering from Riff Raff, who's been tormenting him). Brad and Janet are then shown to separate rooms, and Frank-N-Furter seduces the two in exactly the same manner first entering their separate rooms in a Paper-Thin Disguise, then using his considerable charm and, well, skills, plus the fact they're both horny. ![]() They are interrupted by biker/ex-delivery boy Eddie, Columbia's lover, whom Frank-N-Furter had kept in the deep-freeze. After being stripped down to their underwear, they are invited up to Frank-N-Furter's lab where he unveils his creation - the Brainless Beauty Rocky Horror. a "Sweet" Transvestite Mad Scientist, to be specific (from Transsexual, Transylvania). They meet the servants, handyman Riff-Raff and his "most beautiful note If she's beautiful, I'd hate to see the ugly ones! sister," Magenta the domestic note A domestic what?, and groupie Columbia, who live with Dr. and that's where things get really, really, reeaaaaaaaaalllly weird. However, on the way there, they get a flat tire and find themselves outside a stereotypical Haunted Castle ("It's probably a hunting lodge for rich weirdos" note Rich weirdos aren't in season, asshole!). The story: Brad Majors note Asshole! and Janet Weiss note Slut! are two lovely, naive virgins from Denton note The Home Of Happiness!, U.S.A., who get engaged and drive off to tell Dr. The film is based on the stage musical The Rocky Horror Show, also by Richard O'Brien (who played Riff Raff both in its original staging and this film). It's most famous for still being played in theatres all over the world once a week, and for having a fanbase that dresses up, throws stuff at the screen, re-enacts the scenes and generally indulges in Audience Participation. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical film written by Richard O'Brien and directed by Jim Sharman. note How strange was it? So strange they made a movie about it! Not the book, the movie!" ''"I would like note You would, wouldn't you?!, if I may note You may not!, to take you note Where?/Take me, take me! on a strange journey. ![]()
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