The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Alright. So, any true cult movie fan can tell that my blog title is a play off one of the most popular, if not the most popular, movies of all time. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a great movie that makes fun of horror movies, musicals, and comedies, while at the same time being a serious musical.

How often are you going to see a man wearing a corset successfully the way Tim Curry did? It's very rare. The storyline is crazy and hilarious. The songs are catchy, the title intriguing. This movie has such a devoted following that showings of it in a theater still sell out with people waiting in exorbitantly long lines.

The film's beginning wasn't well received in 1975 when it was released. It was ignored by everyone, or so it seemed. Just five short years later in 1980, the movie took off when someone had suggested to release it as a midnight cult movie, and from there, it exploded. Most of the great, classic cult movies start off in similar ways.

This movie has incredible amounts of strange events. As a whole, this movie probably should not make sense in the smallest way, yet it does. If you watch only parts of it without having seen it straight through, you would probably become confused, but also laugh a lot. Or be disturbed, one or the other.

My absolute favorite song in the entire movie is probably "Sweet Transvestite". My second favorite is definitely Meatloaf's song, which is called "Hot Patootie Bless My Soul". I love the different dances throughout the movie, and I admit that I have often danced along while I'm watching them. I enjoy the way the story is told, via a narrator and a point of view that isn't one of the characters.

A lot of people might say that this movie is low class and shoddy, but I disagree. Yes, parts of it are somewhat....eccentric and out there, but the storyline is incredibly out there. The devotion of all the actors to their roles was immense, which you can tell. It is very clear when you watch this film how devoted everyone was. All you have to do to see that is look at what they are wearing, and some of the scenes in it. Also you can see their devotion if you look at the number of shows they did as plays.



Tim Curry, then

Tim Curry even stated in an interview from 1981 that he probably wouldn't have had as large an impact on America, or even a film career without it. And how right Tim Curry is, at least on the impact he had on America. I'm certain that with his voice he would have at least become a voice actor, he has one of the best villain voices I have ever heard.

Tim Curry, now



Now, in 2012, 37 years later, I have watched this movie probably about a hundred times. I watched it online after friends telling me repeatedly to watch it. I was then determined to find it, and buy a copy. It took me months of searching, and finally I found it in a $5 dump bin at a Wal

I have also watched this movie with both of my grandmothers, who found this movie hilariously funny. Which I, in turn, found insanely funny that they both enjoyed this film just as much as I do.

This movie is definitely worth checking out for people who have never before seen it. And people who have seen at least parts of this movie should watch the whole thing, because I can almost guarantee that you will become a huge fan.

***Images found on Google by searching "Tim Curry then, and Tim Curry now"