The Rocky Horror Picture Show

UPC: 024543051008

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Mild Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language]

Summary: This low-budget freak show/cult classic/cultural institution concerns the misadventures of Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) inside a strange mansion that they come across on a rainy night. After the wholesome pair profess their love through an opening song, their car breaks down in the woods, and they seek refuge in a towering castle nearby. Greeting them at the door is a ghoulish butler named Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien), who introduces them to a bacchanalian collection of partygoers dressed in outfits from some sort of interplanetary thrift shop. The host of this gathering is a transvestite clad in lingerie, Dr. Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry), a mad scientist who claims to be from another planet. With assistants Columbia (Nell Campbell) and Magenta (Patricia Quinn) looking on, Frank unveils his latest creation -- a figure wrapped in gauze and submerged in a tank full of liquid. With the addition of colored dyes and some assistance from the weather, Frank brings to life a blonde young beefcake wearing nothing but skimpy shorts, who launches into song in his first minute of life. Just when Brad and Janet think things couldn't get any stranger, a biker (Meat Loaf) bursts onto the scene to reclaim Columbia, his ex-girlfriend. When Frank kills the biker, it's clear that Brad and Janet will be guests for the night, and that they may be next on Frank's list -- whether for murder or carnal delights is uncertain. And just what is that mystery meat they're eating for dinner, anyway? In addition to playing Riff Raff, O'Brien wrote the catchy songs, with John Barry and Richard Hartley composing the score. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Features: cc Multi-story (U.K. or U.S. version): View the original cut or the new edition with musical sequence "Superheroes" edited back in
Commentary by Richard O'Brien and Patricia Quinn
The theatrical experience: View Rocky Horror as you would in the theater, complete with introduction from RHPS fan club president Sal Piro. View audience reactions and performers in front of the screen at certain points throughout the film
Prompter: "When do I squirt my water pistol and when do I scream?" This subtitle track will tell you
DVD-ROM games, trivia and more
Anamorphic widescreen (aspect ratio 1.66:1)
Audio: English 5.1 surround, English mono
Subtitles: English, Spanish

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Format: DVD

Release Date: 09/03/2002

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Vistavision

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD1 Dolby Digital Mono, THX THX-Certified Mastering

Runtime: 100 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Science Fiction/Double Feature (Main Titles)
2. The Home of Happiness
3. Dammit Janet
4. A Strange Journey
5. Over at the Frankenstein Place
6. A Hunting Lodge for Rich Weirdos
7. The Time Warp
8. Sweet Transvestite
9. What's on the Slab
10. Rocky's Birthday
11. Sword of Damocles
12. That's No Way to Behave
13. I Can Make You a Man
14. Hot Patootie
15. Eddie's Death
16. I Can Make You a Man (Reprise)
17. Frank and Rocky's Nuptials
18. Apprehension
19. Janet's Seduction
20. Rocky's Escape
21. Brad's Seduction
22. If Only... /Rocky Returns to the Womb
23. Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me
24. A Doctor in the House
25. Very Little Bonhomie
26. Eddie
27. You'd Better Wise Up
28. The Medusa Device
29. Rose Tint My World
30. Fanfare/Don't Dream It
31. Wild and Untamed Thing
32. I'm Going Home
33. Hello, Oblivion
34. Return to Transsexual
35. End Credits
1. Science Fiction/Double Feature (Main Titles)
2. The Home of Happiness
3. Dammit Janet
4. A Strange Journey
5. Over at the Frankenstein Place
6. A Hunting Lodge for Rich Weirdos
7. The Time Warp
8. Sweet Transvestite
9. What's on the Slab
10. Rocky's Birthday
11. Sword of Damocles
12. That's No Way to Behave
13. I Can Make You a Man
14. Hot Patootie
15. Eddie's Death
16. I Can Make You a Man (Reprise)
17. Frank and Rocky's Nuptials
18. Apprehension
19. Janet's Seduction
20. Rocky's Escape
21. Brad's Seduction
22. If Only... /Rocky Returns to the Womb
23. Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me
24. A Doctor in the House
25. Very Little Bonhomie
26. Eddie
27. You'd Better Wise Up
28. The Medusa Device
29. Rose Tint My World
30. Fanfare/Don't Dream It
31. Wild and Untamed Thing
32. I'm Going Home
33. Hello, Oblivion
34. Return to Transsexual
35. Superheroes
36. End Credits

Derek Armstrong

The shining textbook example of a film so bad it's good, writer/director Jim Sharman's The Rocky Horror Picture Show owns an absolutely unique place in film history, loosely considered the longest-running film of all time. This bawdy and cut-rate Frankenstein story became the definition of "cult classic" when theaters worldwide began offering midnight screenings (a tradition that continues today), attracting legions of decked-out fans to shout lines and throw rice at the screen, often while live performers acted out the plot. The film was quickly enveloped in kitsch, and since has become a well-known phenomenon frequently re-created on-stage, partly on the strength of such gonzo (and overtly sexual) musical numbers as "The Time Warp" and "Sweet Transvestite." The sets and production values are head-shakingly crude, the plot is an absurd haunted house fantasy about transsexual aliens, the writing is so clunky that fans created a supplemental dialogue of sarcastic retorts, and the performances constitute the highest possible camp. But that's what makes it all a dizzy and subversive treat: a melange of poor decisions that equal one outrageous unit of bad cinema. In his first screen role, Tim Curry leads the way and sets a new standard for overacting as the flamboyant mad scientist Frank-N-Furter, with a cast of freakishly dressed bit players filling out the halls of his demented castle, among them singer Meat Loaf. Those unfamiliar with the movie may be surprised to see Susan Sarandon and (to a lesser extent) Barry Bostwick as the impossibly square and terminally heterosexual WASP couple who stumble upon the madness after their car breaks down. Neither a boon nor a specific hindrance to any of the careers involved, The Rocky Horror Picture Show exists as a solitary achievement in unintentional wretchedness, which has earned it slavish devotion and cinematic immortality. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Lou Adler  Executive Producer 
Jim Sharman  Director 
Jim Sharman  Screenwriter 
Michael White  Producer 
Richard O'Brien  Screenwriter 
Tim Curry  Actor 
Susan Sarandon  Actor 
Barry Bostwick  Actor 
Richard O'Brien  Actor 
Jonathan Adams  Actor 
Nell Campbell  Actor 
Peter Hinwood  Actor 
Meat Loaf  Actor 
Patricia Quinn  Actor 
Mark Johnson  Actor 
Jeremy Newson  Actor 
Koo Stark  Actor 
Charles Gray  Actor 
Hilary Labow  Actor 
Christopher Biggins  Actor 
Gaye Brown  Actor 
Ishaq Bux  Actor 
Imogen Claire  Actor 
Fran Fullenwider  Actor 
Lindsay Ingram  Actor 
Annabel Leventon  Actor 
Anthony Milner  Actor 
Henry Woolf  Actor 
Sadie Corré  Actor 

Country: UK