The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) on Netflix
Brad Majors and Janet Weiss get engaged after their friends' wedding and drive to see an old teacher. A flat tire leads them to a castle, where Dr. Frank-N-Furter introduces himself.
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Plot summary
Following their friends' wedding, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss get engaged and set off through a rainy night to visit Dr. Scott, the science teacher from the class where they met. Their car loses a tire, so they walk to a nearby castle looking for a telephone. Costumed strangers are dancing the Time Warp inside, among them Riff Raff, the butler, Magenta, the maid, and Columbia, a groupie. Dr. Frank-N-Furter, who says he comes from Transsexual, a planet in the galaxy of Transylvania, greets the couple and invites them to spend the night. He is at work on a muscular blond man of his own making, and he means to bring him to life.
Cast
- Jeremy Newsonas Ralph Hapschatt
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- After The Walt Disney Company acquired 20th Century Fox in 2019 and began withdrawing archival Fox movies from theaters into the Disney Vault, it made an exception for The Rocky Horror Picture Show so that the traditional midnight screenings could continue.
- The shouting of lines at the screen is traced to a normally quiet teacher in the audience who, seeing the character Janet place a newspaper over her head to protect herself from rain, yelled, "Buy an umbrella, you cheap bitch."
- O'Brien drafted a sequel titled Rocky Horror Shows His Heels in 1979, featuring the return of all the characters from the original film, but Sharman did not wish to revisit the original concept so directly, nor did Tim Curry wish to reprise his role.
- Designer Sue Blane discussed the costumes' influence on punk music style, calling them a big part of the build-up to punk and saying that ripped fishnet stockings, glitter and colored hair were directly attributable to Rocky Horror.
- The tank and dummy used for Rocky's birth were not built for this production at all: they had originally appeared in The Revenge of Frankenstein in 1958.
- Filming took place during the autumn, which made conditions on set worse, and during the shoot Sarandon fell ill with pneumonia.
- On 10 April 2015 the Fox Network announced a modern-day reimagining titled The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again, with the role of Dr. Frank N. Furter played by transgender actress Laverne Cox.
