In the year 1975, the Rocky Horror Picture Show was first introduced as a film. The play version had been around for many years before that. The film is a parody between science fiction and b-list movies. The film screenplay, written by Richard O'Brien is about a young couple, newly engaged who get a flat tire on the way to their mentors place of residence. The young couple, Brad and Janet played by Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon find themselves in the company of some very strange people, transvestites, in the middle of a party. The party is to celebrate Franks newest creation, a man named Rocky. They meet Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien), his sister Magenta (Patricia Quinn), Columbia (Neil Campbell), and introducing Frank N Furter (Tim Curry) and find themselves in the hands of evil.
Their is an audience participation version of the film/play where the common folk dress themselves up as their favorite character and go to the play. They use props like rice and toilet paper for some scenes. As you can see, the characters use a lot of make-up in this film that would not normally be seen in the everyday environment.
Some intresting facts about the cast are that the character of Eddie, Columbia's human love intrest that gets killed by Frank N Furter, is played by the musical artist Meatloaf. Patricia Quinn, Magenta, is now a dutchess and in the introduction to the movie version of the film, it was her lips singing the song "Science Fiction, Double Feature", with singing by Richard O'Brien. Tim Curry, Frank N Furter is the voice of many cartoons and has stared in many other films, but he may be commonly known to anyone who watched the television channel Nickelodeon, as the voice of Nigel Thornberry on the show "The Wild Thornberry's" He is also well known as the clown from the movie "IT"
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