The Rocky Horror Picture Show: 45th Anniversary Edition [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Director: Jim Sharman Jim Sharman

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/11/2020
UPC:	0786936871944
Original Release:	1975
Rating:	R
Source:	20Th Century Fox
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:40:00
Sales rank:	3,959

Special Features

Includes both the U.S. and U.K. versions of the film; The Midnight Experience: the late-night, double-feature, picture-in-picture show; Vintage callback track (unrated); Prop box; Trivia track; Rocky-oke: Sing It!; Mick Rock (a photographer); Mick Rock's picture show (a gallery); Pressbook and poster gallery; Audio commentary by Richard O'Brien and Patricia Quinn; Deleted musical scenes and outtakes; Alternate B&W opening; Alternate credit ending and misprint ending; Rocky Horror double-feature video show; Beacon Theater, New York City; "Time Warp" music video... and more!; 1080p High Definition; 7.1 DTS-HDMA and Mono; English SDH subtitles

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tim Curry	Dr. Frank N Furter
Susan Sarandon	Janet Weiss
Barry Bostwick	Brad Majors
Richard O'Brien	Riff Raff,Composer
Jonathan Adams	Dr. Scott
Peter Hinwood	Rocky
Patricia Quinn	Magenta,Actor
Jeremy Newson	Ralph Hapschatt
Hilary Labow	Betty Munroe
Frank Lester	Wedding Dad
Mark Johnson	Wedding Guest
Koo Stark	Bridesmaid
Petra Leah	Bridesmaid
Gina Barrie	Bridesmaid
John Marquand	Father
Meat Loaf	Eddie
Christopher Biggins	Transylvanian
Nell Campbell	Columbia
Gaye Brown	Transylvanian
Perry Bedden	Actor
Hilary Farr	Betty Munroe Hapschatt
Ishaq Bux	The Transylvanians
Stephen Calcutt	The Transylvanians
Hugh Cecil	The Transylvanians
Imogen Claire	The Transylvanians
Tony Cowan	The Transylvanians
Sadie Corre	The Transylvanians
Fran Fullenwider	The Transylvanians
Lindsay Ingram	The Transylvanians
Peggy Ledger	The Transylvanians
Annabel Leventon	The Transylvanians
Anthony Milner	A Transylvanian
Pamela Obermeyer	A Transylvanian
Tony Then	A Transylvanian
Kimi Wong	A Transylvanian
Charles Gray	Criminologist
Henry Woolf	A Transylvanian
Sadie Corré	Transylvanian Dancer
Richard Hartley	Composer

Technical Credits

Jim Sharman

Richard O'Brien

Jim Sharman	Director,Screenwriter
Richard O'Brien	Screenwriter
Lou Adler	Executive Producer,Producer
John Goldstone	Producer
Wally Veevers	Special Effects
Michael White	Producer
Ron Barron	Sound Effects
Ian Fuller	Sound Effects
Bill Rowe	Sound Effects
Peter Glossop	Sound Effects
Doug Smith	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

After beginning as a small, offbeat London stage production, Rocky Horror's 1975 big screen release has since become the ultimate doctrine of decadence, with a timeless rock-'n'-roll soundtrack that defies comparison. Tim Curry stars as the deviant and devious Doctor Frank-N-Furter, an alien from Transsexual Transylvania. Homespun couple Brad and Janet, portrayed by Barry Bostwick (Spin City) and Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking), happen upon Furter's castle on the eve of the unveiling of his new creation, Rocky, his personal Adonis. Fellow Transsexual Transylvanians include butler Riff Raff (screenwriter Richard O'Brien), Magenta the maid (Patricia Quinn), and Columbia the groupie (Nell Campbell). Charles Gray appears as the narrator/criminologist and a pre-superstardom Meat Loaf delivers as ex-delivery boy Eddie. The film's popularity quickly matured as a subculture of midnight shows and audience participation emerged, of which acting out and acting up in the costume of a favorite character was the meat -- and throwing soggy food products was the potatoes. Employing the best-loved elements of kitschy thrillers and B-grade science fiction, this bizarre and fun-filled twist on love and inhibition continues to transcend generations a quarter century later.

Barnes & Noble - Sharon Steinbach

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.

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