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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
is a 1975 British Parody
Musical
comedy
that satirizes science fiction
and horror
B-movies. It was one of the first successful midnight movies and has gained a cult following
. Because of the cult following it has spawned a sequel Shock Treatment
, as well as merchandise such as video games, toys, comic books and trading cards. Richard O'Brien has also attempted (and failed) to write scripts for movies and plays to further the story.
of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, and Janet was pregnant with either Frank-N-Furter's, Rocky's, or Brad's child. It was never filmed because the director Jim Sherman didn't want to do the same movie twice, and due to the unavailability of some of the cast members. Because of this, O'Brien shifted gears and started working on The Brad and Janet Show, which would become Shock Treatment.
-Musical and a follow up to Rocky Horror. It is more of a spin-off
than a sequel, furthering the adventures of Brad and Janet. After Brad and Janet get married they travel home to Denton, to find it taken over by Farley Flavors and encased in a Reality TV Studio, and the duo are put on the game show Marriage Maze. Shock Treatment features many cast members from Rocky Horror but as different characters, with the exception of Jeremy Newson who was the only actor to reprise his role, Ralph Hapschatt.
. Fans titled it Rocky Horror: The Second Coming, but O'Brien never confirmed the title. He did, however, state that it would include elements from the unmade Rocky Horror Shows His Heels and Revenge of the Old Queen. The play would be set nine months after the events of The Rocky Horror Show and would feature a pregnant Janet carrying either Frank-N-Furter's or Rocky's child.
"Frankie Phoenix" was the only song leaked by O'Brien, and was stated to illustrate Frank-N-Furter's resurrection. It had also been intended to become a film like its predecessor if the play had become a financial hit, but after multiple false starts, the project has fallen into a development hell
.
and Sky Movies
planned to release a 2-Hour long remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The remake was based on the original screenplay, and was going to feature original songs and was going to be released around Halloween 2009. Richard O'Brien wasn't involved and did not give the film his blessing.
thought it was too depressing.
. It was vetoed by 20th Century Fox
for a more conventional look. In the 25th Anniversary DVD
, an easter egg appears that converts the film to a semblance of O'Brien's original vision, with the film switching to color instantly when Riff Raff swings open the doorway during the Time Warp.
is a 2003 Cover
Soundtrack performed by various Modern Punk-Rock bands including The Ataris
, Tsunami Bomb
, Alkaline Trio
, and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
, "The Rocky Horror Glee Show
" pays tribute to both the stage version
and the 1975 film adaptation
. The cast of glee released an EP
on October 19, 2010, called the Glee: The Music, The Rocky Horror Glee Show
featuring, "Science Fiction Double Feature", "Hot Patootie", "Damn It, Janet", "Sweet Transvestite
", "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me
", "There's a Light (Over at the Frankenstein Place)
" and "Time Warp
".
, Commodore 128
, ZX Spectrum
and Amstrad CPC
created by the CRL Group PLC. The game involved playing as either Brad or Janet and collecting pieces of the Medusa machine scattered around the castle, in order to free your partner from stone and escape the castle before it blasts off. Meanwhile the other characters in the game can hinder your progress by stealing and hiding your clothes along with what you are carrying. Riff-Raff can kill the player with his laser gun, and Eddie can run the player over with his motorcycle should he thaw out and escape from his freezer.
Video game. Released in March 1999 for the PC by On-Line PLC. Similarly to the earlier CRL game, the player plays as Brad or Janet and must rescue their partner from the castle. Unlike the older computer game, its gameplay was more puzzle-oriented, and benefited from the added detail, graphics, and live video sequences that the PC could provide. Despite this, it was criticised for a clumsy user interface and for using two-dimensional graphics, at a time when most games were using 2.5D.
, plushed by Caliber Press for the 15th Annivsary Celebration.
board game created by USAopoly for the 30th Anniversary Celebration. It features 1200's questions based on The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the actors from the film, and the sequel film Shock Treatment.
In 2000 Vital Toys created a Frank-N-Furter, Riff-Raff, and Columbia action figures. They were sold separately or together in a "box set". Two more series were planned, but never released due to poor sales. Frank-N-Furter was released as a CelebriDuck on CelebriDuck.com. And McFarlane Toys released a fully 3D rendered sculpture of the film's poster available on Cultureboom.net.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show, written by Richard O'Brien. The film is a parody of B-movie, science fiction and horror films of the late 1940s through early 1970s. Director Jim Sharman collaborated on the...
is a 1975 British Parody
Parody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
Musical
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
that satirizes science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
and horror
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
B-movies. It was one of the first successful midnight movies and has gained a cult following
Cult Classic
Cult Classic is a Blue Öyster Cult studio recording released in 1994, containing remakes of many of the band's previous hits.-Track listing:# " The Reaper" - 5:05# "E.T.I...
. Because of the cult following it has spawned a sequel Shock Treatment
Shock Treatment
Shock Treatment is a 1981 musical-black comedy film and a follow-up to the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. While not an outright sequel, the movie does feature several characters from the movie portrayed by different actors and several Rocky Horror actors portraying new characters...
, as well as merchandise such as video games, toys, comic books and trading cards. Richard O'Brien has also attempted (and failed) to write scripts for movies and plays to further the story.
Rocky Horror Shows His Heels
Rocky Horror Shows His Heels was the original script of a direct sequel to Rocky Horror written by Richard O'Brien. It focused on the resurrectionResurrection
Resurrection refers to the literal coming back to life of the biologically dead. It is used both with respect to particular individuals or the belief in a General Resurrection of the dead at the end of the world. The General Resurrection is featured prominently in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim...
of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, and Janet was pregnant with either Frank-N-Furter's, Rocky's, or Brad's child. It was never filmed because the director Jim Sherman didn't want to do the same movie twice, and due to the unavailability of some of the cast members. Because of this, O'Brien shifted gears and started working on The Brad and Janet Show, which would become Shock Treatment.
Shock Treatment
Shock Treatment is a 1981 American ComedyComedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
-Musical and a follow up to Rocky Horror. It is more of a spin-off
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...
than a sequel, furthering the adventures of Brad and Janet. After Brad and Janet get married they travel home to Denton, to find it taken over by Farley Flavors and encased in a Reality TV Studio, and the duo are put on the game show Marriage Maze. Shock Treatment features many cast members from Rocky Horror but as different characters, with the exception of Jeremy Newson who was the only actor to reprise his role, Ralph Hapschatt.
Revenge of the Old Queen
Revenge of the Old Queen, sometimes referred to as Rocky Horror Picture Show: Part Two, was the second direct sequel script written by O'Brien, but was never filmed due to Shock Treatments failure in the box office. It takes place mostly on the distant planet of Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania and focuses on Frank-N-Furter's mother, the Old Queen and her revenge against Riff-Raff for killing her son. Janet returns with her illegitimate son, Sonny; who is hinted to be the son of Frank-N-Furter. Brad returns as a bottomless go-go dancer.Untitled stage sequel
In 2001 Richard O'Brien confirmed that he was working on a new sequel of his original play The Rocky Horror ShowThe Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show is a long-running British horror comedy stage musical, which opened in London on 19 June 1973. It was written by Richard O'Brien, produced and directed by Jim Sharman. It came eighth in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the "Nation's Number One Essential Musicals"...
. Fans titled it Rocky Horror: The Second Coming, but O'Brien never confirmed the title. He did, however, state that it would include elements from the unmade Rocky Horror Shows His Heels and Revenge of the Old Queen. The play would be set nine months after the events of The Rocky Horror Show and would feature a pregnant Janet carrying either Frank-N-Furter's or Rocky's child.
"Frankie Phoenix" was the only song leaked by O'Brien, and was stated to illustrate Frank-N-Furter's resurrection. It had also been intended to become a film like its predecessor if the play had become a financial hit, but after multiple false starts, the project has fallen into a development hell
Development hell
In the jargon of the media-industry, "development hell" is a period during which a film or other project is trapped in development...
.
Unproduced film remake
In 2009, MTV FilmsMTV Films
MTV Films is the motion picture production arm of cable channel MTV. Founded in 1996, it has produced films based on MTV programs such as Beavis and Butt-head Do America and Jackass: The Movie, as well as other adaptations and original projects. Its films are released by fellow Viacom division...
and Sky Movies
Sky Movies
Sky Movies is the collective name for the premium subscription television movie channels operated by Sky Television, and later British Sky Broadcasting. It has around 5 million subscribers, via satellite, cable and IPTV in the UK and Ireland...
planned to release a 2-Hour long remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The remake was based on the original screenplay, and was going to feature original songs and was going to be released around Halloween 2009. Richard O'Brien wasn't involved and did not give the film his blessing.
US Cut
The US Cut of Rocky Horror Picture Show changed the ending of the film by removing the musical number "Super Heroes". The scene was omitted because 20th Century Fox20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...
thought it was too depressing.
OZ Recut
Richard O'Brien originally intended for the film to be in black and white for the first 20 minutes and turning to color when Frank-N-Furter appeared, starting with red color on his lipstick and spreading color throughout the picture as the song continued. It was a nod to The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...
. It was vetoed by 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...
for a more conventional look. In the 25th Anniversary DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
, an easter egg appears that converts the film to a semblance of O'Brien's original vision, with the film switching to color instantly when Riff Raff swings open the doorway during the Time Warp.
The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show
The Rocky Horror Punk Rock ShowThe Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show
The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show is an album featuring the soundtrack of the 1975 cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show as performed by modern punk rock bands...
is a 2003 Cover
Cover
- Science and technology :* A covering, usually one that completely closes the object** Lid** Mechanical seal* The outside of an object, not necessarily enclosing the object** Album cover** Book cover, or magazine cover** CD and DVD packaging...
Soundtrack performed by various Modern Punk-Rock bands including The Ataris
The Ataris
The Ataris are a rock band from Anderson, Indiana. They have released five studio albums, and their most recent E.P. was released on November 25, 2010 on the Gainesville, Florida based label, Paper + Plastick. It contained the brand new tracks "All Souls' Day" and "The Graveyard of The Atlantic"...
, Tsunami Bomb
Tsunami Bomb
Tsunami Bomb was a punk rock band from Petaluma, California that was active between 1998 and October 2005 and released 2 studio albums and 4 EPs. They were founded by Dominic David who left in 2003...
, Alkaline Trio
Alkaline Trio
Alkaline Trio is an American punk rock band that formed in McHenry, Illinois, in 1996. The band's line-up consists of Matt Skiba , Dan Andriano , and Derek Grant...
, and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes is a punk rock supergroup and cover band that formed in 1995. The Gimmes work exclusively as a cover band. The band is named after a children's book of the same name by Gerald G. Jampolsky and Diane V. Cirincione...
The 15th Anniversary Celebration
A four-CD box soundtrack set released for the 15th Anniversary. The set consists of: the original motion picture soundtrack; the Rocky Horror Show original Roxy cast recording; Songs from the Vaults, rare tracks from various cast members, tracks from the Shock Treatment soundtrack and radio advertising spots for the original release; and Rocky Horror International, a collection of tracks from cast recordings around the world along with the previously unreleased film cast recordings of The Sword of Damocles, Once in a While and Planet, Schmanet, Janet. Also included is a 24-page commemorative booklet, and comic book.The Rocky Horror Glee Show
On October 26, 2010, the fifth episode of season two of GleeGlee (TV series)
Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
, "The Rocky Horror Glee Show
The Rocky Horror Glee Show
"The Rocky Horror Glee Show" is the fifth episode of the second season of the American television series Glee, and the 27th episode overall. It was written by Ryan Murphy, from a story by Murphy and Tim Wollaston, directed by Adam Shankman, and premiered on Fox on October 26, 2010...
" pays tribute to both the stage version
The Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show is a long-running British horror comedy stage musical, which opened in London on 19 June 1973. It was written by Richard O'Brien, produced and directed by Jim Sharman. It came eighth in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the "Nation's Number One Essential Musicals"...
and the 1975 film adaptation
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show, written by Richard O'Brien. The film is a parody of B-movie, science fiction and horror films of the late 1940s through early 1970s. Director Jim Sharman collaborated on the...
. The cast of glee released an EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
on October 19, 2010, called the Glee: The Music, The Rocky Horror Glee Show
Glee: The Music, The Rocky Horror Glee Show
-Credits and personnel:Persons responsible for the project are as follows.*Adam Anders – arranger; engineer; producer; soundtrack producer; vocals*Alex Anders – engineer*Nikki Anders – vocals*Peer Åström – arranger; engineer; mixing; producer...
featuring, "Science Fiction Double Feature", "Hot Patootie", "Damn It, Janet", "Sweet Transvestite
Sweet Transvestite
"Sweet Transvestite" is a song from 1973 British musical stage production, The Rocky Horror Show and its 1975 film counterpart The Rocky Horror Picture Show, of which the book, music and lyrics by Richard O'Brien, and the musical arrangements by Richard Hartley...
", "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me
Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me
"Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me" is the eleventh song in The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack. It is sung by Janet and features one-liners from Rocky, Brad, Frank'n'Furter, Magenta, Riff Raff and Columbia.-Origin:...
", "There's a Light (Over at the Frankenstein Place)
Over at the Frankenstein Place
"Over at the Frankenstein Place" is the third song in the cult musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The 1975 cult film includes the song being sung outside Dr. Frank N. Furter's castle in the rain. It is performed by Susan Sarandon , Barry Bostwick and Richard O'Brien...
" and "Time Warp
Time Warp
"The Time Warp" is a song featured in the 1973 rock musical The Rocky Horror Show and in the 1975 film adaption The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as well as a dance performed during the chorus of the song of the same name. The song is both an example and a parody of the dance song genre in which much...
".
The Rocky Horror Show Computer Game
The Rocky Horror Show Computer Game is a 1985 video game for the Commodore 64Commodore 64
The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...
, Commodore 128
Commodore 128
The Commodore 128 home/personal computer was the last 8-bit machine commercially released by Commodore Business Machines...
, ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrum
The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd...
and Amstrad CPC
Amstrad CPC
The Amstrad CPC is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom,...
created by the CRL Group PLC. The game involved playing as either Brad or Janet and collecting pieces of the Medusa machine scattered around the castle, in order to free your partner from stone and escape the castle before it blasts off. Meanwhile the other characters in the game can hinder your progress by stealing and hiding your clothes along with what you are carrying. Riff-Raff can kill the player with his laser gun, and Eddie can run the player over with his motorcycle should he thaw out and escape from his freezer.
The Rocky Interactive Horror Show Game
The Rocky Interactive Horror Show Game is a 1999 PCPersonal computer
A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...
Video game. Released in March 1999 for the PC by On-Line PLC. Similarly to the earlier CRL game, the player plays as Brad or Janet and must rescue their partner from the castle. Unlike the older computer game, its gameplay was more puzzle-oriented, and benefited from the added detail, graphics, and live video sequences that the PC could provide. Despite this, it was criticised for a clumsy user interface and for using two-dimensional graphics, at a time when most games were using 2.5D.
The 15th Anniversary Rocky Horror Picture Show Comic
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Comic is a 1990 comic book adaption of The Rocky Horror Picture Show written and illustrated by Kevin VanHookKevin VanHook
Kevin VanHook is an American filmmaker who began his career in storytelling as a comic book artist and writer. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.-Biography:...
, plushed by Caliber Press for the 15th Annivsary Celebration.
The Rocky Horror Trivia Game
The Rocky Horror Trivia Game is a 2005 triviaTrivia
The trivia are the three lower Artes Liberales, i.e. grammar, rhetoric and logic. These were the topics of basic education, foundational to the quadrivia of higher education, and hence the material of basic education, of interest only to undergraduates...
board game created by USAopoly for the 30th Anniversary Celebration. It features 1200's questions based on The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the actors from the film, and the sequel film Shock Treatment.
Other
In 1980 Fantasy Trading Card Company produced a 60 card set of Trading cards featuring publicity photos of the main cast members. 50 of the cards told the story of movie by having an image on side, and the other had brief captions. In 1995 Comic Images created a 96 card set of trading cards for the 20th Anniversary Celebration.In 2000 Vital Toys created a Frank-N-Furter, Riff-Raff, and Columbia action figures. They were sold separately or together in a "box set". Two more series were planned, but never released due to poor sales. Frank-N-Furter was released as a CelebriDuck on CelebriDuck.com. And McFarlane Toys released a fully 3D rendered sculpture of the film's poster available on Cultureboom.net.