The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show - 1975 | 100mins | Musical | Colour

The Production Team

Director: Jim Sharman.
Producer: Michael White.
Script: Richard O'Brien, Jim Sharman and Richard O'Brien. (play The Rocky Horror Show)
Cinematography: Peter Suschitzky.
Film Editing: Graeme Clifford.
Production Design: Brian Thomson.
Art Direction: Terry Ackland-Snow.
Costume Design: Sue Blane.
Makeup Department: Ramon Gow, Pierre La Roche and Peter Robb-King.
Sound Department: Ron Barron, Graeme Clifford, Ian Fuller, Keith Grant and Bill Rowe.
Non-Original Music: Richard O'Brien and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

The 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

Plot Synopsis

Jim Sharman's anaemic screen version of Richard O’Brien’s definitive cult musical mixes rock opera with affectionate spoofs of vintage horror and sci-fi b-movies. The songs are clunky and the risqué sexual content tame by modern standards, but the rude energy of kitsch classics The Time Warp, Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me and Sweet Transvestite are still highly infectious. The late night screenings of this high-camp favourite have tuned into an elaborate ritual of dressing-up, singing along and throwing rice at the screen.

One rain-swept evening, archetypal Ohio sweethearts Janet (Susan Sarandon) and Brad (Barry Bostwick) looking for a telephone stumble upon the creepy residence of transsexual alien scientist Frank N Furter (Tim Curry). The old castle is full of alien revellers from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy Transylvania geared up for an evening of seduction and debauchery and the strait-laced American couple soon undergo a startling transformation. The camp lair contains such memorable deviants as hunch-backed butler Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien), blonde beefcake Rocky (Peter Hinwood), leather-clad biker Eddie (Meatloaf) and prominent groupies Magenta and Columbia (Patricia Quinn and Nell Campbell).