Come and experience the old time drive in movie with a difference!
Tonight’s movie is The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Our annual late night showing of this classic movie.
Starting at 10pm, come and join in – Throw rice, throw toast, squirt water, dance the Time Warp, shout at the screen, dress up, be outrageous!
No glass containers or pets please! (Virtually everything else is allowed – within reason!)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British classic rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show, written by Richard O’Brien. The film is a parody of science fiction and B-movie horror films. Director Jim Sharman collaborated on the screenplay with O’Brien, who wrote both the book and lyrics for the stage. The film introduces Tim Curry and features Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick along with cast members from the original Kings Road production presented at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1973. In its day it was a highly provocative, though comedic, portrayal of gay and transgender culture, a symbol of LGBT themes, and a review of sexual quirks.
Still in limited release 35 years after its premiere, it has the longest-running theatrical release in film history. It gained notoriety as a midnight movie in 1977 when audiences began participating with the film in theatres. Rocky Horror is the first film from a major Hollywood studio to be in the midnight movie market. The motion picture has a large international following and is one of the most well known and financially successful midnight movies of all time. In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
Plot
The story, narrated by a criminologist (Charles Gray), tells the tale of newly engaged couple (“Dammit Janet“), Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, who find themselves lost and with a flat tire on a cold and rainy, late November evening (“Over at the Frankenstein Place“).[1] Seeking a phone with which to call for help at a nearby castle, Brad and Janet discover a group of strange and outlandish people who are holding an Annual Transylvanian Convention. They watch as the Transylvanians, servants, and a tap dancing groupie dance the “Time Warp“, the film’s signature song.
They are soon swept into the world of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a self-proclaimed “sweet transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania” (“Sweet Transvestite“). The ensemble of convention attendees also include servants Riff Raff (Richard O’Brien), his sister (and lover) Magenta (Patricia Quinn), and a groupie named Columbia (Nell Campbell, credited as “Little Nell”).
Frank claims to have discovered the “secret to life itself”. In a scene inspired by the classic Frankenstein films, his creation, Rocky Horror (Peter Hinwood), is brought to life (“The Sword of Damocles”). The ensuing celebration (“I Can Make You a Man”) is soon interrupted by Eddie (Meat Loaf), an ex-delivery boy, partial brain donor to Rocky, and Columbia’s lover, who rides out of a deep freeze on a motorcycle (“Hot Patootie – Bless My Soul“). In a jealous rage, Frank corners him and slaughters him with an ice axe. He then departs with Rocky to a bridal suite off of the laboratory (“I Can Make You a Man-Reprise”).
Brad and Janet are shown to separate bedrooms where each is visited and seduced by Frank, who poses as Brad and then Janet in order to trick the real Brad and Janet into sex. Janet, upset and emotional, wanders off to look for Brad, who she discovers is with Frank via a television monitor. She then discovers Rocky, cowering in his birth tank, hiding from Riff Raff, who has been tormenting him. While tending to Rocky’s wounds, Janet seduces him, while Magenta and Columbia watch from their bedroom monitor (“Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me“).
After discovering that his creature is missing, Frank, Brad, and Riff Raff return to the lab, where Frank learns that an intruder has entered the building. Dr. Everett Scott (Jonathan Adams), Brad and Janet’s old high school science teacher, has come looking for his nephew, Eddie, but Frank suspects that Dr. Scott investigates UFOs for the government. Upon learning of Brad and Janet’s connection to Scott, Frank suspects them of working for him.
Rocky and the guests are served dinner (“Eddie’s Teddy”), which they soon realize has been prepared from Eddie’s body. Janet runs screaming into Rocky’s arms and is chased through the halls of the castle by a jealous Frank (“Wise Up, Janet Weiss”). Janet, Brad, Dr. Scott, Rocky, and Columbia all meet in Frank’s lab, where Frank captures them with the Medusa Transducer, transforming them into living statues. They are then forced to perform a live cabaret floor show (“The Floor Show”).
The performance is interrupted by Riff Raff and Magenta, who stage a coup and announce their plan to return to the planet of Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania (“I’m Going Home”). In the process, they kill Columbia, Rocky, and Frank. They release Brad, Janet, and Dr. Scott, and then depart by lifting off in the Castle itself (“Science Fiction/Double Feature-Reprise”).
The narrator then finishes the film by concluding that man is alone – a rock floating through space.
Cast
Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter: A scientist. Main antagonist. Frank is a flamboyant, hedonistic transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania; a pansexual mad scientist.
Susan Sarandon as Janet Weiss: A heroine. Sweet and somewhat naïve. Janet, recently engaged to Brad, succumbs to temptation.
Barry Bostwick as Brad Majors: A hero. The clean-cut fiancé of Janet Weiss. Awkward and out of step, he finds himself in situations never before experienced.
Richard O’Brien as Riff Raff: A handyman. Frank’s minion and Magenta’s brother.
Patricia Quinn as Magenta: A domestic. Riff Raff’s sister.
Nell Campbell (credited as Little Nell) as Columbia: A groupie. A tapdancer. Self-proclaimed lover of Frank, and formerly involved with Eddie.
Jonathan Adams as Dr. Everett Scott: A rival scientist. Brad and Janet’s high school science teacher, now a government scientist searching for extraterrestrial life.
Peter Hinwood as Rocky Horror: A creation. Blond-haired and tanned, Rocky is mute except for his musical numbers. Rocky’s singing voice was dubbed over by Trevor White[disambiguation needed].
Charles Gray as The Criminologist: An expert. The film’s narrator.
Meat Loaf (credited as Meatloaf) as Eddie: An ex-delivery boy. Columbia’s former boyfriend, partial brain donor for Rocky, nephew to Dr. Scott, and eventually, Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s dinner.