Janet Weiss | Rocky Horror Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Janet Majors (née Weiss) is a character from the musical productions of The Rocky Horror Show since 1973, from the 1975 movie , from the 2015 tribute production celebrating 40 years, from the 2016 reimagining movie , from Shock Treatment and its 2015 musical , and from the never made sequels Rocky Horror Shows His Heels , The Brad and Janet Show , Revenge of the Old Queen and Rocky Horror: The Second Coming . She is the only character to appear in all made and never made projects. She was portrayed by Julie Covington and Belinda Sinclair in the 1973 Original London Production, by Abigale Haness in the 1974 Roxy Production and the 1975 Broadway Production, by Susan Sarandon in the 1975 film adaptation, by Alice Ripley in the 2001 Broadway Revival, by Haley Flaherty in the 2015 live tribute production, and by Victoria Justice in the 2016 reimagining movie.

In unrelated Rocky Horror projects, she was portrayed in 1981 by Jessica Harper in Shock Treatment and in 2015 by Julie Atherton in Shock Treatment: The Musical. Contents [ show ] The Rocky Horror Picture Show At the beginning of the film, Janet and Brad attend the wedding of Ralph and Betty Hapschatt , two of their friends. Brad, after seeing Janet catch the bouquet, confesses his love for her (" Dammit Janet ") and the two become engaged. They later drive away from Denton to visit their old friend, Dr. Everett V. Scott . Their car breaks down, forcing them to seek help in a nearby castle (" Over at the Frankenstein Place "). They knock on the door and the handyman Riff Raff invites them in. They watch a party going on (" Time Warp "), which reveals Janet's scared and naive nature. Janet wishes to go, with Brad trying to comfort her, until they run into the master of the mansion, Dr. Frank N Furter , a transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania. They are invited up to a laboratory to witness an experiment, being stripped down to their underwear.

Once there, Frank N Furter reveals to them that they are about to witness the birth of his creation. A man dressed like a mummy steps out of a bed and his bandages are removed by Riff Raff, the maid Magenta and a groupie named Columbia . The creation is a muscular man with blonde hair, and is named " Rocky Horror ". He performs a musical number ("The Sword of Damocles"), before Frank N Furter begins revealing his plans for him ("I Can Make You a Man"). This is soon interruped by the appearance of Eddie , Columbia's boyfriend, preserved in a freezer. When he gets Rocky's attention, Frank slaughters him with an ice axe and then leaves with Rocky to a bridal suite near the lab. Brad and Janet are then shown to seperate bedrooms where Frank disguises himself as their respective lovers to sexually seduce them. Janet wanders off in search of Brad only to discover that he was sleeping with Frank. Feeling cheated on, she then notices Rocky cowering in his birth tank, wounded from tormenting by Riff Raff. Janet tends to his wounds with strips from her torn skirt and then seduces him ("Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me").

They are soon discovered by all other characters, including the intruding Dr. Scott. He had come in search of Eddie, his nephew, but Frank suspects him to be working for the government to find unidentified flying objects, and Janet and Brad to be working for him. Everyone is then served dinner, which first appears to be ham (" Eddie's Teddy "), but is later revealed to be pieces of Eddie's body. Janet is welcomed into Rocky's arms before an enraged Frank N Furter chases after her ("Planet Schmanet Janet"). Janet, Brad, Rocky and Columbia are turned to stone via a Medusa machine, that strips them of their clothes. Frank dresses them up to perform a floor show (" The Floor Show : Rose Tint My World , Don't Dream It, Be It and Wild and Untamed Thing ") when Riff Raff and Magenta enter the ballroom. Frank attempts to explain his actions (" I'm Going Home "), but they are not convinced, and so Riff Raff shoots him with an antimatter beam to kill him, and also kills Columbia when she startles him, and Rocky as he tries to climb a tower. Janet can be seen completely terrified and being held by Brad during this.

Riff Raff and Magenta then release the humans before they take off to return to Transexual. Janet, Brad and Dr. Scott evacuate, but they are last seen stumbling around amid the smoke, injured from the takeoff ("Super Heroes"). The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error The Rocky Horror Picture Show ( 1975 ) R | A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

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Director: Rob Marshall Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again. Director: John Carpenter A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house. Director: Tim Burton Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George. Director: Mark Waters A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation. Director: Tim Burton Edit Storyline It's the weird and wonderful as newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter a problem when their car halts in the rain. They both look for contact, only to find themselves at the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite. A place to stay is offered, but will Brad and Janet want to remain there? Especially when a large group of Transylvanians dance to the 'Time Warp', Dr.

Frank-N-Furter builds his own man and a whole host of participation for the audience to enjoy. Written by simon A Different Set Of Jaws. See more » Genres: 31 August 1975 (Italy) See more » Also Known As: Orgía de horror y locura See more » Filming Locations: (edited) Sound Mix: Chace Surround (Remix for video release)| Mono (35 mm optical prints)| 4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints) Color: Did You Know? Trivia Tim Curry was very reluctant to talk about the film for years due to some not-very-good memories about his more rabid fans. He even told VH-1 that he grew "chubby and plain" in order to try escaping the role of Frank. These days, he's more open to talk about the film and even sees it as a "Rite of passage" for teenagers. See more » Goofs When Riff Raff is talking to Brad and Janet at the front door, he is tapping the door with his forefinger in frontal shots, but not when the camera is behind him. See more » Quotes Frank : One from the vaults... Don't be upset.

It was a mercy killing. He had a certain naive charm, but no muscle. See more » Crazy Credits At the very end of the film, The credits read: "The characters portrayed in this film are ENTIRELY FICTITIOUS and bear no resemblance to anyone living OR DEAD!" See more » Connections The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Rocky Horror Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia The Rocky Horror Picture Show 106pages on Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. The Rocky Horror Give Yourself Over to Absolute Pleasure tagline The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical science fiction comedy horror film directed by Jim Sharman. The screenplay was written by Sharman and Richard O'Brien based on the 1973 musical stage production, The Rocky Horror Show , music, book and lyrics by O'Brien. The production is a satirical tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the 1930s through early 1970s.

The film stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick along with cast members from the original productions. Contents [ show ] Plot The movie starts with a pair of red lips singing about the chain of events that science fiction has been following ("Science Fiction/Double Feature"). During which the characters are introduced which are Brad, Janet, Frank N Furter, Columbia, Magenta, Riff-Raff, and Dr. Scott. After the song it shows Brad Majors and Janet Weiss both at a wedding for their friends and when everyone is cleared out Brad proposes to Janet. Through song ("Dammit Janet"). She, of course, says yes. Only hours later the newly engaged couple of Brad and Janet are stuck in a thunder storm while driving down a distant country road. While they are driving down the road they are passed by several people dressed in leather riding on motercycles pass them going the oppisite way they are going. They than get a flat tire at the end of the road were Brad remembers a castle that they had past a mile behind and tells Janet to stay in the car while he goes to the castle to see if they have a phone he could use. But Janet comes with him.

After getting back to the castle they go through a gate that has a message- "ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!"- on it, but they go in anyway. Approaching the castle they see that all the lights are on and the windows are showing the many lights inside. Brad and Janet are so happy that they sing (with a small verse by Riff-Raff) a song ("Over at Frankenstein`s Place"). They are greeted at the door by the butler Riff-Raff and also meet the maid his sister Magenta who show them the rest of their kind (called the Transylvanians) and they all sing the show's must popular song ("Time Warp"). At the end they try to back away from the Transylvanians but they are stopped by the sudden appearance of Frank N Furter. He comes down from an elevator and sings a song ("Sweet Transvestite") and then tells Brad and Janet that they are invited to his labrotory to see him finish his creation. After being undressed and redressed by Magenta and Riff-Raff, Brad and Janet are taken up to the lab.

There they see Frank in a green rubbed lab coat with pink glooves and gives the spark of life to his creation Rocky Horror. They both give a song ("I Can Make You A Man") and then as Rocky is about to be taken by Frank one of the doors that lead off from the laboratory burst open. Eddie, an ex-delivery boy, comes out of a frozen bunker and it turns out he was Frank`s former play toy before he had started to make Rocky; and that Eddie was a partial brain donor for Rocky. Coming out on an motorcycle he jumps out and sings another song ("Hot Patootie-Bless My Soul") that Rocky sings along to. Fran N Furter in a jealous rage runs into the ice bunker and tear an ice pick from the wall and intterupts the song by chasing Eddie into the bunker and kills him off-screen. To gain back Rocky Frank sing a reprise song to the one he and Rocky sang earlier ("I Can Make You A Man (Reprise)"). They than go off into a bridal suite and Brad and Janet are kept in seperate rooms. Later during the night Frank goes to Janet's room disguised as Brad and has sex with her, promising not to tell Brad.

Afterwards, during the night, Frank goes to Brad disquised as Janet and has sex with him, too. Riff-Raff and Magenta are up stairs in the lab where Rocky is sleeping in his birth tank but when they try to have intercourse Rocky wakes up, so using a candle flame (very Frankenstein Monster like) to scare Rocky off. After they're done Riff-Raff sees on a television monitor that Rocky was outside the castle and unleashes the dogs on him. But all in vain because he vanishes off the monitor after Riff-Raff goes and tells Frank about the missing creation. Janet meanwhile is searching for Brad and sees him with Frank on the television monitor and starts to cry, but then she finds Rocky hiding in his birth tank, injured by the chasing dogs. While tending his wounds Janet eventually has sexual intercourse with Rocky in the birth tank and starts to sing ("Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me") while Columbia and Magentia watch from their room on their television moniter. Rocky and Janet are interrupted by Brad, Frank, and Riff-Raff, who Frank is torturing for the loss of Rocky with a whip.

Then Riff-Raff looks up at the televison monitor and sees that there is a stranger at the door who Brad reconizes as Dr. Evert Scott, a teacher he used to have. When Dr. Scott is in the Zen Room Frank uses a magnet to pull Scott into the room (he is in a wheel chair) and, after passing through the entire castle, Dr. Scott flies into the room. That is also when Frank hears a cry from the birth-tank. He lifts up a blanket and discoveries Janet and Rocky together, much to his rage. Frank N Furter is intterupted by Magentia who says that 'dinner is ready' and Frank, annoyed, says that formal dress will not be needed and storms out. They go to dinner, celebrating Rocky`s birthday. They all ironically wear party hats, and Evert Scott tells them that he is there with a purpose. Frank says that Scott is researching UFO`s and aliens for the government, but Dr. Scott says that he is actually looking for his nephew, Eddie. Columbia realizes what the birthday dinner was all about and runs out screaming to the next room.

Scott sings with help of Janet, Riff-Raff, Frank, and Magenta a song explaining that Eddie had always been a 'no-good kid' ("Eddie"). Now very angered, Frank N Furter rips off the table cloth and shows the guest that the dinner they had been eating was from Eddie's corpse and they had actually been dining on top of it. Horrified, Janet leaps into Rocky`s arms and Frank throws off his birthday hat and slaps Janet, then chases her singing ("Wise Up, Janet Weiss!") into the lab tailed by everyone. Frank captures Brad, Janet, Rocky, Scott, and Columbia (after stating that she loved him) by turning them to stone; and Frank N Furter says simply that it was getting to hard to have fun. Magentia and Riff-Raff are praised by Frank N Furter for being his most loyal servants and to prepare for the "Floor Show". So now, everyone but Riff-Raff and Magenta are dressed in fish nets and leather and start to sing a three part called "Rose Tint My World" ("Floor Show") ("Fanfare/Don`t Dream It") and ("Wild and Untamed Thing").

But then, after a swiming scene in a pool hidden under a fake radio tower that is covered by a stage curtain as the song closes, Riff-Raff and Magenta some in dressed in space suit-type clothes and they sing that they were taking Frank N Furter prisoner and returning to their homeplanet of Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania. At first, when Riff-Raff points an antimatter gun at Frank, he doubts it works and sings a song to explain what he had been doing ("I`m Going Home"), but they say that when they said they were going back they meant only themselves and they were going to kill Frank N Furter, who rises to his full height. Then Columbia screams and Riff-Raff swirls around and kills her with a single blast; Frank, now sure that the gun works, he tries to climb up the stage curtain. But a single blast kills him and Frank tears the stage curtain off as his body falls to the floor, and Rocky goes to his master and carries the corpse with him up the fake radio tower. After several hits with the antimatter gun, Rocky dies and the fake radio tower becomes electric, and, had Rocky been alive, eletrocutes his body.

The tower breaks and the dead bodies topple backwards into the swimming pool. Riff-Raff and Magenta let Brad, Janet, and Scott go as they prepare to Time Warp back to their home planet and the humans all escape as they set off in the castle itself. The narrator comes in and sings/reads the final ending song ("Science Fiction/Double Feature (Reprise)"): And crawling on the planets face, Some insects called the the human race. Lost in time and lost in space. And Meaning. Charles Gray as The Criminologist Minor Cast Hilary Farr as Betty Hapschatt Trevor White as Rocky Horror (singing voice) The Transylvanians - Perry Bedden, Christopher Biggins, Gaye Brown, Ishaq Bux, Stephen Calcutt, Hugh Cecil, Imogen Claire, Tony Cowan, Sadie Corre, Fran Fullenwider, Lindsay Ingram, Peggy Ledger, Annabel Leventon, Anthony Milner, Pamela Obermeyer, Tony Then. Kimi Wong, and Henry Woolf.

Uncredited cast (Wedding guests, Floor Show Audience) - Lewis Alexander, Gina Barrie, Hyma Beckley, Ernest Blyth, Rufus Collins, Victor Harrington, Mark Johnson, Juba Kennerley, Petra Leah, Frank Lester, Aileen Lewis, John Marquand, and Koo Stark. Crew Art Direction - Terry Ackland-Snow Makeup Department - Ramon Gow, Pierre La Roche, Peter Robb-King, Graham Freeborn, Ernest Gasser, Helen Lennox, Mike Lockey, and Jane Royle. Production Management - John Comfort Assistant Director - Mike Gowans and Bob Howard Art Department - Dick Frift, Ian Whittaker, Don Bradburn, Norman Dorme, Bob Douglas, Bob Hedges, John Leuenberger, Bryn Siddall, John Siddall, and Bob Spencer. Sound Department -Ron Barron, Ian Fuller, Bill Rowe, Peter Glossop, Doug Smith, and Len Tremble. Special Effects - Colin Chilvers, Wally Veevers, and Roy Spencer. Camera and Electrical Department - Dennis Lewiston, Mike Roberts, Fred Anderson, John Jay, Jack Roche, and Ronnie Rogers.

Casting Department - Celestia Fox Publicist - Geoff Freeman Assistant choreographer - Gillian Gregory Stand-ins - Janette Scott, Liz Coke, John Birkinshaw, Alan Harris, Eric Kent, Dave Murphy, Gerry Paris, Erica Simmons, Melita Smith, Richard Smith, and Tuppence Smith. Sequels Main article: Shock Treatment Following the unexpected and overwhelming success of The Rocky Horror Picture Show on the midnight circuit, Richard O'Brien approached producer Michael White with the idea of making a sequel. In 1978, he began work on a script titled Rocky Horror Shows His Heels, which found Frank and Rocky resurrected, Brad and Dr. Scott turned gay, and Janet on the verge of giving birth to Frank's baby. Director Jim Sharman was resistant to revisit the material and Tim Curry had no desire to reprise the role of Frank, but O'Brien had put some work into the songs, so he decided to retain them and simply revise the story. The new script was titled The Brad and Janet Show. This version is closer to what became Shock Treatment and was planned to be produced, but the filmmakers were plagued with a variety of problems. Dr.

Scott had been included in the script, but Jonathan Adams was not interested in reprising his role. Tim Curry had committed to portray Farley Flavors, but when he discovered Barry Bostwick was unavailable and he'd have to play the dual roles of Farley and Brad, Curry backed out too, fearing he couldn't pull off a convincing American accent. The filmmakers intended to shoot on location in Denton, Texas, but production screeched to a halt in 1980 when the Screen Actors Guild went on strike. With only a small window when cast and crew were available, the filmmakers had to get creative. Television had been a heavy motif in the script, so production designer Brian Thompson came up with the notion to rework the story and set it in a giant TV studio utilizing a film studio in England which shaved a million dollars from the budget and gave them the luxury of working in a controlled environment. The script endured a final draft in which all of the locations were changed to television shows, and the role of Dr. Scott morphed into game show host Bert Schnick. "I was frightened the strike was going to finish too soon and we’d have to go back to our original conception," commented O'Brien.

REVIEW: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) | World Film Geek REVIEW: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) 1975, 20th Century Fox Richard O’Brien (original play and screenplay) Cinematography: Tim Curry (Dr. Frank N. Furter) Susan Sarandon (Janet Weiss) Richard O’Brien (Riff Raff) Patricia Quinn (Magenta) Jonathan Adams (Dr. Everett Scott) Charles Gray (The Criminologist) One of the greatest motion pictures and cult classics ever made, this horrific musical still takes the cake over 40 years after its initial release. The story revolves around two ordinary people, Janet Weiss and her fiancée Brad Majors who go to a castle to find a phone after their car gets a flat tire. They are met by a very strange fellow named Riff Raff) and his sister Magenta. The castle is holding some sort of party where the partygoers are doing “The Time Warp”. The couple soon meet the true host of the castle, a crazy cross-dressing scientist named Dr. Frank N. Furter.

Frank has been working on a creation and now has come the time for him to unleash it. The creation is a blond hair, blue eyed muscle man named Rocky Horror. Soon, chaos ensues as Frank has plans for everyone around him on a night that no one will ever forget. If someone were to look up “cult classic” in a film dictionary, this film deserves to truly be the definition. From the mind of Richard O’Brien comes to very strange film that may seem like a horror musical, but is more of a raucous comedy musical with a sci-fi edge to it. The film is truly a combination of sci-fi, Frankenstein (1931), sexual androgyny, cross-dressing, and a rock musical all rolled up into one nifty package. Tim Curry is perfectly cast as the cross dressing mad scientist Dr. Frank N. Furter. He brings charisma, sexuality, and comedic value all in one. His introductory musical sequence is forever a hailed classic. Playing the “square” couple to a tee before shifting to practically slaves of the mad doctor are Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick. While they have that normality to them at first, it is refreshing to see the changes they endure throughout the film.

In the role of the titular character is Peter Hinwood. As the creation known as “Rocky Horror”, he doesn’t speak yet he does sing a few songs. Why he doesn’t speak in the film is beyond anyone, but in what would be his only big role in a film, Hinwood does it really well. As the handyman Riff Raff and hired help Magenta, creator Richard O’Brien and his good friend Patricia Quinn bring a closeness that borders on incest yet they have a more intricate goal in the entire movie. The film would spawn a sequel-spinoff from the warped mind of O’Brien, Shock Treatment in 1981. Only Brad and Janet returned as played by new actors and the plot was an interesting one that would foreshadow films like The Truman Show (1998) and EdTV (1999), where the world is one big television network. In the fall of 2016, a live version of the musical is airing, starring transgender actress Laverne Cox as the crazy doctor, Victoria Justice as Janet, Reese Carvey as Riff Raff and the original Frank himself, Tim Curry, as the Criminologist.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is still one of the most beloved cult classic films after three and a half decades. The songs are timeless and Tim Curry’s deadpan performance truly makes the film. If you haven’t seen it, go out and see this movie right now! WFG Rating: A+ Janet Weiss (Character) - Quotes Janet Weiss (Character) Riff Raff : Hello. Brad : Hi! My name is Brad Majors, and this is my fiancee, Janet Weiss. I wonder if you'd mind helping us. You see, our car broke down a few miles up the road. Do you have a phone we might use? Riff Raff : Yes... I think perhaps you better both come inside. Janet : You're too kind. Oh, Brad, I'm frightened. What kind of a place is this? Brad : Oh, it's probably some kind of hunting lodge for rich weirdos. Janet : Are you having a party? Riff Raff : You've arrived on a rather special night. It's one of the master's affairs. Janet : Oh, lucky him. Magenta : You're lucky, he's lucky, I'm lucky, we're all lucky! Ha ha ha...

Janet : What have you done to Brad? Frank : Nothing. Why, do you think I should? Frank : Oh, I just love success! Riff Raff : He's a credit to your genius, Master. Columbia : He's okay! Frank : Okay? Okay? I think we can do better than that! Well, Brad and Janet, what do you think of him? Janet : Well, I don't like men with too many muscles. Frank : I didn't make him for you! He carries the Charles Atlas seal of approval! Janet : [singing] Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch me / I wanna be dirty! Chill me, thrill me, fulfill me / Creature of the night! Frank : Enchanté. Well! How nice. And what charming underclothes you both have. But here. Put these on. They'll make you feel less... vulnerable. It's not often we receive visitors here, let alone offer them... hospitality. Brad : Hospitality? All we wanted to do was to use your telephone, goddammit, a reasonable request which you've chosen to ignore! Janet : Brad, don't be ungrateful.

Magenta : But I thought you liked them. They liked you. Riff Raff : THEY DIDN'T LIKE ME! THEY NEVER LIKED ME! Janet : If only we were amongst friends... or sane persons! Frank : I don't want no dissension. Just dynamic tension. Janet : I'm a muscle fan. Janet : Brad, please, let's get out of here. Brad : For God's sake, keep a grip on it, Janet. Janet : But it seems so unhealthy here. Brad : It's just a party, Janet. Janet : Well, I wanna go! Brad : Well we can't go back to the car unless we get to a phone. Janet : Well, ask the butler or someone! Brad : Just a moment, Janet. We don't want to interfere with their celebration. Janet : This isn't the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Brad! Janet : [singing] There's a light, over at the Frankenstein place. Janet : [whispering] Say something! Brad : Say! Any of you guys know how to Madison? Frank : Magenta. Columbia. Go and assist Riff Raff. I will entertain... err...

[chortles, extending hand to Brad] Shock Treatment (1981) Janet Majors : [singing] If that's not enough, then I'm/So sorry I met you, it was almost like leading you on/But there's more to it all/Than just ringing your heart out over something/That keeps on going wrong/So don't tell me you love me/How am I supposed to know what that means?/No, don't sell emotion/You can't buy devotion if you're falling apart at the seams... Janet Majors : Hi, Brad. I've just come to tell you how fabulous I am. Janet Majors : I need some young blood, I need some young blood. I need it now! Brad Majors , Janet Majors : [in song] Some people do it for each other. Judge Oliver Wright , Betty Hapschatt : Some people do it for employment. Brad Majors , Janet Majors , Judge Oliver Wright , Betty Hapschatt : But, we're gonna do it anyhow, anyhow. We're gonna do it anyhow, anyhow. We're gonna do it no matter how the wind is blowing. We're gonna do it anyhow, anyhow.

We're gonna do it anyhow, anyhow. We're gonna do it. We just gotta keep going. Emily Weiss : [about Brad Majors] Thank God he was born an orphan. It would have killed his parents. And thank goodness he didn't end up like that Slibstrini boy. Harry Weiss : What are you talking about? Danny Slibstrini's a chip of the old block. Why, I played 18 holes of golf with his father just last week and Hank says that Danny's moved to New York to better himself. Emily Weiss : He moved all right. And they found him in the back of Wilson's bakery, naked, with fifteen other men. Janet Majors : [with a look of confirmation] Mexicans. Harry Weiss : [Looks disguted] I'm gonna catch up on a few jobs that need doing outside. [Harry storms out, slamming the door] Announcer: [voice-over] We return to Dentonvale after this important message. Emily Weiss : You shouldn't have said that.

Film Review: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Home | Cult Films | Film Review: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Film Review: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Nigel Honeybone 10/01/2015 Cult Films , Film Reviews SYNOPSIS: “A story of creation, love, hate, adventure and, most of all, sex. The story begins in Denton, Ohio as Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, after getting engaged, travel to see ‘the man who began it’ but wind up at the castle of Doctor Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite alien from the planet of Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania. And they meet Riff Raff, Magenta, and Columbia which leads to ‘doing the Time Warp again’. They discover they have been there on a special night. Frank’s creation is to be born! As Rocky has been revealed, rebel Eddie, Frank’s last-recent creation, ponders in on his motorcycle whom Frank kills. In comes Doctor Everett Von Scott, he’s come for Eddie which results in the discovery of Eddie’s deceased body.

Frank chases Janet, and Brad and Doctor Scott chase Frank, which results in everybody but Frank getting frozen. Enter the floor show which then turns into the horrifying death of both Frank and Columbia die and the castle’s blasting off! Brad, Janet and Doctor Scott survive and leave with torn clothes and battered bodies.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: After a rocky start (pun intended), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) became an enduring cult success, beginning in the USA at midnight-movie screenings, where the audience would dress up, chant lines and comebacks in unison, pull visual gags, dance, sing and generally take part in a kind of mass group therapy. The film was based on a small-scale but very successful British stage musical, and many of the original players were used in the film. Much of the film’s success can be ascribed to the leering eroticism of Tim Curry as Doctor Frank-N-Furter, the transexual from Transylvania, in black fishnet stockings, garter belt and lots of sexy eyeshadow.

The jokes are mainly to do with the arrival at his decadent mansion of boringly straight Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon), just in time for Frank-N-Furter to unveil his latest creation, a handsome but rather effeminate-looking creature named Rocky Horror (Peter Hinwood). The film’s co-author, New Zealander Richard O’Brien, plays Riff-Raff, the mad doctor’s inevitably sinister hunchbacked assistant. Things progress complicatedly and rather feebly from there – the film is weaker than the original stage show – but is laced with enjoyable in-jokes for genre fans, especially in the lyrics to some of the songs such as ‘Science Fiction Double Feature’ as well as performing the final floor show in front of a replica of the RKO tower – RKO made many of the horror movies of the thirties, notably King Kong (1933). The Rocky Horror Picture Show is an extraordinary phenomenon. Something about the film’s combination of elements from punk and glam rock with the trendy emphasis on bisexuality seems to have helped it along, and Curry’s resemblance to Mick Jagger may have been a factor too.

This is the one movie that can’t even be discussed without mentioning its fans, for they have changed it from being an undistinguished campy horror send-up to a fabulously entertaining multi-media midnight show. It is the ultimate audience-participation film. Cultists who may have seen the film hundreds of times, dressed like their favourite characters, recite the dialogue en masse, shout out their own additions to the script and, under a spotlight, put on a singing-dancing-miming performance that both duplicates and parodies the action taking place on the screen above them. It was like no show around, neither intimidating nor smug and, under the right circumstances, is almost a throwback to when movies brought entire communities together. The beauty is that in one row of seats you’ll find gays, transvestites, psychology students, punk rockers, comic book addicts, science fiction nuts, stoned-out viewers left over from the previous film, high school students out on dates, and people who wonder what they’re doing there at all. In any event, the film at its midnight screenings bridges a gap between cinema and theatre in a way that has never happened before or since, for here the audience becomes the actors, and the auditorium the stage.

Adapted by director Jim Sharman and Richard O’Brien from O’Brien’s stage musical The Rocky Horror Show, it tells the story of Brad and Janet from Denton in Ohio who, lost in the rain, find the castle of Doctor Frank-N-Furter. Also present is his strange butler Riff-Raff, weird maid Magenta (Patricia Quinn), motorcyclist Eddie (Meat Loaf) and his groupie Columbia (Little Nell Campbell). On this eventful night, during an annual convention of visitors from the planet Transexual, Frank-N-Furter is bringing handsome muscular Rocky Horror to life. Soon Eddie’s uncle and UFO investigator Doctor Everett Von Scott (Jonathan Adams) turns up to join in the proceedings. When viewed alone on DVD, the movie is not particularly well-made nor amusing, but I do like it when the stodgy criminologist (Charles Gray) stands on his desk to demonstrate the dance steps. The big production number of Let’s Do The Time Warp Again is a lot of fun, as is Meat Loaf’s wild rock’n’roll number ‘Whatever Happened To Saturday Night’.

I also like the concept of portraying the doctor from the Frankenstein tale as the real monster of the piece – Curry is absolutely dynamic as the cinema’s first masculine-acting sweet transvestite. There’s also the dirty-lyrics number ‘Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me’ that Janet sings while moving Rocky’s hands over her breasts, and the sequence in which Frank seduces both Janet (while pretending to be Brad) and Brad (while pretending to be Janet). Despite the film’s attempt to breech every known cinematic taboo – homosexuality, lesbianism, cannibalism, incest, transvestism, etc. – I wish it were more jarring and braver but, unfortunately, it just peters out and, to a first-time viewer, becomes downright confusing. Luckily, the cultists in the audience maintain their hectic pace right to the very end. Due to the cult popularity of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Twentieth Century Fox green-lighted a sequel called Shock Treatment (1981) written and produced by the same team, in which Brad (Cliff De Young) and Janet (Jessica Harper) become contestants on a television game show, but wind up as captives instead.

Although a very poor sequel, as a stand-alone film it is quite clever, foreseeing the incredible boom of reality television that dominates the medium today. Produced by Michael White and featuring comedy actors such as Barry Humphries, Rik Mayall and Ruby Wax, Shock Treatment feels more like an episode of the British television comedy series Comic Strip Presents. It’s with this observation I’ll respectfully request your persistence…I mean, presence next week, when your leg will be crudely humped by another cinematic dog from…Horror News. Toodles! Includes both the U.S. and U.K. versions of the film Rocky-oke: Sing It!

Commentary By Richard O’Brien and Patricia Quinn (Magenta) Don’t Dream It, Be It: The Search for the 35th Anniversary Shadowcast, Part I An-tic-i-pation: The Search for the 35th Anniversary Shadowcast, Part II Mick Rock (A Photographer) Mick Rock’s Picture Show (A Gallery) A Few From The Vault Deleted Musical Scenes 1: ”Once In A While” 2: ”Super Heroes” “Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show” (1995) Beacon Theater, New York City (10th Anniversary) Time Warp Music Video Pressbook & Poster Gallery….And More! DVD Special Features: Includes both the U.S. and U.K. Versions of the Film Commentary By Richard O’Brien and Quinn (Magenta) The Theatrical Experience Prompter: “When do I squirt my water pistol and when do I scream?” And More!

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 40th Anniversary Blu-ray Street Date: September 22, 2015 Pre-Book Date: August 19, 2015 Screen Format: Widescreen Anamorphic Feature (1.66:1) Audio: English 7.1 DTS HD MA / Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 / French Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish Total Run Time: 100 minutes U.S. Rating: R Closed Captioned: Yes THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Musical Comedy: A young couple stumbles into a castle full of alien transvestites. PLOT: Janet Weiss (SUSAN SARANDON) and Brad Majors (BARRY BOSTWICK) are an engaged couple who get a flat while out driving at night. They remember passing an old castle and go there and meet its owner, Doctor Frank-N-Furter (TIM CURRY), a transvestite who's working on creating the perfect man.

With his previous creation, Eddie (MEAT LOAF) on ice, Frank-N- Furter has created a new and improved, muscle-bound man, Rocky Horror (PETER HINWOOD). What Brad and Janet don't know is that the mad doctor and his staff, Riff Raff (RICHARD O'BRIEN) and Magenta (PATRICIA QUINN), are actually space aliens from transsexual Transylvania. As Frank-N-Furter shows and plays with his creation, Brad and Janet can't believe what they've stumbled into. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Younger kids won't, but teenagers probably will due to the film's cult status. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R The MPAA reason was not available, but we'd guess it was for sexuality and one murderous act of violence. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: Riff Raff pours wine into a glass (for Frank-N-Furter) and then takes a swig from the bottle himself. Wine is consumed with dinner. There's a little bit of blood on a towel given to Janet to dry herself. Eddie has a slightly bloody gash across his forehead.

Frank-N-Furter's gloves are bloody, as is a pick ax he's just used to kill Eddie and there's some blood on the floor. Frank-N-Furter implies that the meat they're eating for dinner was Eddie and as he pulls away the table cloth, we see a partially gutted Eddie inside the table (body organs and exposed pieces of his skull). Both Brad and Janet have sex with Frank-N-Furter, although they are engaged to each other. Some may see Frank-N-Furter's "playing God" by creating beings as having a bad attitude. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) The following lyrics are heard in the songs: "I really got hot, when I saw Janet Scott..." "I'm just a sweat transvestite from transsexual Transylvania." "I thought there's no use getting into heavy petting, it only leads to trouble, and to seat wetting . . . I'll put up no resistance, I want to stay the distance . . . I've got an itch to scratch, I need assistance . . . Toucha, toucha, toucha touch me, I want to be dirty . . .

Then if anything grows (Janet looks at Rocky's crotch), while you pose, I'll oil you up and rub you down . . . " "An orgasmic rush of lust . . . " "Swim in the warm waters of the sins of the flesh . . . " Several damns and a hell are heard in some of the songs. SEX/NUDITY Several songs contain sexually related lyrics. See "Music (Inappropriate)" for details. The phrase, "Wait till tonight. She got hers, now he'll get his" is written on the side of a newly wedded couple's car. Frank-N-Furter is a transvestite and wears skimpy leather women's lingerie, and Brad, Janet and others are similarly dressed at the end of the movie. They strip Janet and Brad of their wet clothes, she down to her bra and slip, he down to his underwear. Rocky is seen in skimpy gold underwear. Frank-N-Furter created Rocky for himself and is seen kissing his legs, and runs his finger down Rocky's chest toward his crotch. Later they're seen going into the "bridal suite" (implying that they have sex).

Eddie climbs on top of a woman on the floor during a song, but nothing else happens. Brad comes into Janet's bedroom and climbs on top of her in bed, but it turns out to Frank-N-Furter posing as Janet. She fights him for a moment, but then gives in when he kisses down her chest and then gets between her legs. She tells him she was saving herself, but he tells her he won't tell Brad. It's implied that they then have sex and she's heard moaning a bit. Frank-N-Furter then gets on top of Brad in his bed, posing as Janet and the same occurs as in the above scene. Later, Janet sees Brad smoking a cigarette while Frank-N-Furter lies in the bed. Thus, it's implied that they had sex. Janet and Rocky have sex after a musical number that includes her singing, "I thought there's no use getting into heavy petting, it only leads to trouble, and to seat wetting . . . I'll put up no resistance, I want to stay the distance . . . I've got an itch to scratch, I need assistance . . . Toucha, toucha, toucha touch me, I want to be dirty . . .

Then if anything grows (she looks at his crotch), while you pose, I'll oil you up and rub you down . . . " As he touches her breasts, two women watching this on TV momentarily touch each other. Frank-N-Furter turns Janet, Brad and others into marble-like, nude statues where bare breasts and a penis are seen on the statues. Part of a woman's bare breasts (and her nipples) are seen as she dances during a musical number. Janet grabs her crotch during a musical number. Everyone gets into a pool (dressed in their leather lingerie), and the women kiss Frank-N-Furter and appear briefly to kiss each other. : NextFilm.co.uk - Film Profile : The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Can't wait for a showing? Find this movie on Amazon! Overview This surprisingly witty and wickedly naughty Queen Mother of cult movies is a campy, vampy, kinky musical send-up of old horror flicks.

Revealing what happens when strait-laced Brad and Janet get stranded at the weird castle of Frank N Furter - Tim Curry, wringing every ounce of deranged humour from his glam-rock role in a landmark performance - it cleverly satirises Frankenstein, haunted-house mysteries, science-fiction clichés and Carry On sexual identity confusion. The score is justifiably famous - stand-out songs are Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me and Sweet Transvestite - and if you've never seen it, give yourself a treat. If you have, then let's do The Time Warp again! The MovieDB Overview (Click to view) Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky'.

Drums � Ignasi Corella Sole Sax � Jerilyn Sykes; Andy Bergman Though no longer shocking, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, the source of the 1975 cult film classic, remains cute, campy fun: now going into his fourth decade, Dr. Frank N Furter, that �sweet transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania�, continues to create a bodybuilder named Rocky for his personal pleasure and subject Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, a white-bread couple, to some naughty moments before getting zapped by his servants Riff Raff and Magenta. In either format, this sci-fi musical spoof is nostalgia for some, a rite-of-passage for others --- everyone should attend a ROCKY at least once to throw things on cue, talk back to the characters and for a few hours not to dream it but to be it. Director James J. Girgenti directs a youthful, in-your-face production for the usually staid Footlight Club --- this is a punk-style evening rather than a celebration of criss-crossing --- and I grinned for the wrong reasons whenever the chorus, for all their leering, cautiously fondled one another as if afraid of leaving fingerprints. But Mr.

Girgenti gets his cast to move rather well to the rockin� music and there are a clutch of good singers; Richard Repetta charms as a non-threatening Frank (a garden party hostess rather than a liberating life-force) and Tim McShea and John Pirroni are in ringing voice as Riff Raff and the lobotomized Eddie. Linda Goetz never gets to unhinge her Gwen Verdon legs as Magenta but Paul O�Shaughnessy certainly does with his in a hilarious turn as crazy scientist Dr. Scott. On the evening I attended, one of the band members led the obligatory catcalls which at times clashed with those coming from the audience, leaving the cast caught in the crossfire. Hopefully this will be modified to allow the fans to dominate; actually, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW is such a solid piece of cake that it can be enjoyed without any icing.

"The Rocky Horror Show" (29 October - 13 November) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) — The Movie Database (TMDb) A review by tricksy By tricksy Moving on from the riotous cult stage show which was born in a small studio theatre in the early 70s, this movie version is a well-cast, outrageous romp showcasing the absurdity and sci-fi obsession of Richard O'Brien's inventive musical. The small cast - the wonderful Tim Curry as Frank 'n Furter (the sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania'); Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon as the odd science students Brad and Janet; Patricia Quinn as Magenta ('a domestic'); Little Nell as Columbia ('a groupie'), Jonathan Adams as Dr Scott; Meat Loaf as Eddie; Richard O'Brien himself as the hand... read the rest .

Question: Janet Weiss, Brad Majors and Magenta are all characters from which 1975 musical film?
Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show