The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I would like ...

... if I may, to take you on a strange journey!

How can I dare to really review "The Rocky Horror picture show", so far one of the most popular cult movies of all times? Well am gonna tell you a short story. When I was a kid, about 5 years old, I saw the movie first on DVD, couldn't read the subtitles yet or understand it but I loved the music. By the age of 9 I was quite good in English but now I also could read the subtitles and I could talk the whole movie in German. By the age of 10 I also could speak the whole movie in English and had a phase where I watched it weekly and drove my parents insane ;) Does that predestine me to review it?

As I grew up with that movie, I guess many people did and there aren't many who never even heard of it. If there's one thing to say about this masterpiece then it is that you can only love or hate it. There's no such thing as "I watch it sometimes but it's not really my stuff" that just doesnt exist. You are a total fan and can sing and dance the whole movie or you watched it once and didn't see a sense in it!

The movie itself was produced in 1974 and at first nobody wanted to release or do it. THAT story? Never. Why would someone wanna see that? The movie producers were not really amused by the play written by Richard O'Brien and Jim Sharman. It was quite understandable because it doesn't come with a story you would have showed around at a family movie evening in the 70s. But imagine if not in the end someone had decided to produce it, where would we be today then?

So now for the ones who really dont know the movie, shame on you by the way ;)

Brad and Janet after their engagement decide to visit the prof in whose class they first met. On their way to visit him, in a dark rainy night, their car breaks down because Brad forgot to bring a spare tyre. They go back to the last building they saw on their way to call a mechanic and end up knocking at Frank N. Further's door. They reckon they disturbed a party "of rich weirdos" but what they actually come to visit is the exposure of Frank's latest "project" - he created himself a man. But if that wasn't strange already they soon find out that Frank and his "servants" are alien transvestites from the Planet of Transylvania ...

The careful reader may have realized that here we got a very strange version of the classic Frankenstein story.

So what does this movie make cult, you may ask if you don't know it.
First of all its the summary of outstanding performances. Not only the young Tim Curry as Frank N. Further, also Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick as Brad & Janet, Richard O'Brien himself as Riff Raff, Patricia Quinn as Magenta, Nell Campbell as Columbia - to make it short, every single actor in the movie - are great!
The second point are the dialogues, strange, with a bit of dark humor and quite memorable - once heard you will remember them everytime watching the movie before they are said, that's what I can asure you.
The third part and most important is the music! It's the same as with the dialogues, everyone who watched the movie more than once will be able to sing them. Meat Loaf stars in the movie, too as Eddie, singing 'Hot Patootie' and Tim Curry, who originally is a musical star as many of you will know, is totally outstanding singing and acting as Frank.

This movie is a must for you, no matter which genre you usually prefer, I bet you twenty bucks you will love it! (Or hate it ... :D ) Feel free to do your own little performance everytime while you watch the movie - "Dont dream it, be it!" ;)



No other musical movie has ever caused so many fan parties and fan meetings, till today there are many! 33 years of "Rocky Horror" and no end in sight! Congratulations for that to everyone who stared in the movie, produced and of course wrote it!