The Rocky Horror Picture Show (DVD)

25 years of absolute pleasure. I fell in love with Rocky Horror after going to The Leeds Grand Theatre in 1997 and then again in 1998 to see Jason Donovan strut his stuff as Frank N Furter. Then I went to The Alhambra Theatre in Bradford in 1999 to see it again. In 1998 and 1999 I got dressed up because I knew what the story was about. The crowd was wild,the dresses were phenomenal, Ken Morley who played Reg Holdsworth in Corrie(the one who did those crap windows ads)was the narrator! I was lucky enough to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show on TV a couple of months later(with a pre-amble from Mark Lamarr about how uncomfortable he ...  Read the complete review

I absolutely love this movie. I have never seen it live (mainly because none of my friends like it and I would never go alone) but I bet it's great! For those of you not familiar with the story, it is about Brad and Janet, two small town american teens who stumble across a big old house one night when there car breaks down. Brad and Janet are 'wholesome and pure' kinda kids and they knock at this house to use their phone. What ensues is a world of total madness. The house is that of Frank Furter, a transexual transvestite from transylvania. He has a host of guests and staff and Brad and Janet kind of get stuck there living in this bizzare world of Frank ...  Read the complete review

One of my favourite films has to be ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’. It is now nearly thirty years old and yet I find the issues it creates are as relevant today as they were in the early 1970’s, when the idea was first conceived. It is a stereotyped science fiction movie, portrayed in a format, which is very much ‘tongue in cheek’. ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ combines comic humour with a classic Gothic horror story, Frankenstein: Gothic meets the twenty-second century! In a fifties sci-fi film genre. **History** ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ was originally designated as a piece of experimental ...  Read the complete review

The first time I watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a real let-down. This was in 1975, after having had my fill of The Rocky Horror Show in the King’s Road Theatre. Goodness knows, I had seen the stage show so many times and knew every nuance of every actor, from Tim Curry and Meatloaf, to Little Nell, and, of course Richard O’Brien himself. As each actor changed (the stage show ran and ran) so did the performances. Little did I know that I was caught up in the making of a cult. We would dine at the trendy Borsch & Tears if we had time before the show, and scoff Donner Kebabs on the way home, often rubbing shoulders with the cast and crew. On ...  Read the complete review

I knew leo G carrol was over a barrel when tarantula took to the hills. This is quite possibly the best opening to any musical or film that has ever graced stage or screen. The Rocky horror show is a fantastic, well crafted and weird blend of sci-fi, fantasy, erotica and just plain strangeness. From the outset of the film at the wedding of betty munroe and ralph hapshack, you are dragged kicking and screaming into the musicfest of this film. some of the lyrics are strange but hey who cares!! and looking a it noe the cast is quite impressive. susan sarandon, richard o' brian, tim curry, meatloaf, and i can't at the moment remember the name of the narrator but ...  Read the complete review