#140 The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Directed by Jim Sharman

Year 1975

There has never been a movie like this. Mixing Horror, Rock and Roll, Science Fiction, and Camp while celebrating transgressive sexuality, the film adaptation of an unusually successful theatrical experience opened to small box office. In time, it found its audience and became THE midnight movie, the definitive cult movie, an interactive movie experience with a rabid fanbase. I came in on the tail end of the phenomenon, truly an experience like no other. A welcoming party for “outcasts”, celebrating everyone from film and comic book nerds to transvestites, gays and punk rockers. The songs are catchy and fun, and Tim Curry (in his debut) became an instant legend as Dr. Frank-N-Furter

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