Rocky Horror originated as a 1973 stage musical by Richard O'Brien and evolved into a fifty-year international cult phenomenon. The live theatrical productions emphasize audience participation and costume, generating sustained energy and communal experience. Tim Curry stars as Dr Frank-N-Furter, a flamboyant, queer, alien figure who promotes uninhibited pleasure and leads a household of followers including Riff-Raff and Eddie. The plot follows an all-American couple, Brad and Janet, who arrive soaked at the castle and undergo sexual awakenings. The story culminates in the creation of a perfect male body, Rocky, and a climactic celebration of theatrical naughtiness.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is now 50 years old, a B-picture horror-schlocker campfest extravaganza based on Richard O'Brien's original stage musical from 1973; it has carried on as an international theatrical touring phenomenon ever since. That live show, with the vital element of regular audience participation and dress-up, may in fact now have a bit more energy and point than the movie itself, which (whisper it) perhaps suffers a few longueurs.
The undoubted star is the sonorous and feline Tim Curry playing Dr Frank-N-Furter, a vampirically queer alien sex god, proselytising here on Earth for borderless pleasure and describing himself as a sweet transvestite transsexual from Transylvania. Dr Furter toys with the affections of the many followers and servants at his giant castle in middle America, including his butler Riff-Raff (played by O'Brien) and tearaway Eddie (played by Meat Loaf).
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