Rocky Horror Shows His Heels

***Rocky Horror Show: His Heels*** is a 1979 musical comedy horror film by 20th Century Fox, produced by Lou Adler and Michael White and directed by Jim Sharman. The screenplay was written by Sharman and actor Richard O'Brien, the film stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick and is narrated by Charles Gray Nell Campbell and Patricia Quinn.

## Plot

Rocky Horror, the gorgeous monster created by transexual madman Frank-N-Furter who was apparently destroyed when Frank's castle turned into a spaceship and blasted off into the stars (see Rocky Horror Picture Show), is miraculously reborn. But Frank is still dead, his corpse badly decomposed. Rocky longs to have Frank revived (Breaking Out). Brad and Janet, the straight couple turned freakish by Frank's influence, have married, and Janet is about to give birth. But Brad can contain his homosexuality no longer and leaves his wife, wearing high heels (Bitchin' In The Kitchen).

Brad visits crippled Dr. Scott, also turned gay by Frank. Then Rocky walks in with Frank's body; Brad realizes that Janet's baby is either Rocky's or Frank's. Rocky insists on Scott revitalizing Frank's body; Scott determines the chemicals necessary to revive the alien transsexual. Meanwhile, Emily and Harry Weiss (Janet's mom and dad) are shocked to learn that Brad left her; Dad is alarmed to hear of Brad's homosexuality (Thank God I'm a Man).

Brad and Scott give Frank some of their own blood, and eventually Frank is reborn; electroshocks manage to clear up the mold on his face (Shock Treatment). Frank is delighted to be alive again and even more pleased to learn he has a baby on the way. As Frank puts his charges to sleep, he calls his Transylvanians; they arrange a party in the small town of Denton the next night to celebrate Frank's rebirth.

Next day Frank, Scott, Brad, and Rocky don their gay apparel (Little Black Dress). Brad and Scott fight for Frank's attention, but he is absorbed with the idea of his new baby (I'm Gonna See My Baby). They arrive at the hospital, where Janet has given birth to a boy. Frank immediately claims control of the baby, to Janet's and Dad's ire. Frank instructs his child about his philosophy of life and tells the gathered people about the party that night; a prize will go to the one with the best costume.

Frank and his cronies travel the town, sprinkling everyone with fairy dust that transforms those who are touched by it into transsexuals. A jukebox reminds Frank of Eddie, his old, deceased nemesis, and Frank vilifies Eddie in virulent terms (He Lived & Died for Rock 'n Roll). Suddenly Frank collapses. Brad's and Scott's blood wasn't sufficient; he needs eleven pints of the blood of young male virgins and sends Brad to get the sacred fluid (Looking For Trade). Brad locates some boys who are thrilled to aid an alien celebrity--but one of the boys isn't really a virgin, though he doesn't confess this.

Mom, Dad, a policeman, and a hospital nurse are converts to Transylvanian lifestyles, all wearing high heels and acting lewdly (Look What I Did To My Id). At Frank's party, the townpeople act bizarrely, each hoping to win the prize for best costume. Meanwhile, two ghostly figures steal Janet's baby, tell Janet the baby is dead, and wheel Janet out of the hospital. The party is livened by Brad's wild dancing and Frank's singing (You're Looking at an Ace). Then Janet arrives at the party and prefaces telling Frank the news about her baby by saying she loves him. But Frank scorns romance. Janet says the baby is dead; Frank is outraged and unmasks the two ghostly figures--they are Riff Raff and Magenta, the pair who destroyed him in his previous life (Duel Duet).

Suddenly Frank starts to decompose, realizing one of the boys wasn't a virgin. As Frank chases the unchaste lad, Frank's spell evaporates, and the townspeople, now outraged, attack Frank; Riff Raff kills him. The crowd then overwhelms Brad, Scott, and Rocky, barely escaping. Riff Raff and Magenta drive off with Janet and her baby; from the baby's rock 'n roll gurgling, it is clearly Frank's.

## Cast

Tim Curry as Dr. Frank Susan Sarandon as Janet Weiss, The Heroine and Brad's Fiancée

Barry Bostwick as Brad Majors, The Hero and Janet's Fiancé

Richard O'Brien as Riff Raff, Hunch-Backed Handyman and Magenta's Brother

Patricia Quinn as Magenta, Maid and Riff Raff's Sister

Nell Campbell (credited as Little Nell) as Columbia, Groupie

Jonathan Adams as Dr. Everett V. Scott, Rival Scientist

Peter Hinwood as Rocky Horror, Creation (Trevor White as singing voice)

Charles Gray as The Criminologist, An Expert