The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a campy, emphatically kinky but hilarious film in which a straight-laced couple (Brad Majors and Janet Weiss) with a flat tire stop at a castle in the woods to use the phone. In the castle, Dr. Frank N Furter, a gender-bending scientist from another planet, is giving a party to celebrate the creation of Rocky, a new male playmate.

The film features Tim Curry as Dr. Frank N Furter, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick as Janet and Brad, the straight-laced and initially horrified couple, and Meat Loaf as Eddie.

The film was based on a long-running play, The Rocky Horror Show. A cult following developed as the show began playing at midnight, first at the Waverly Theater in New York City. People began shouting responses to the characters' statements on the screen (including abuse of the characters or actors, vulgar sex jokes, puns, or pop culture references). Casts of fans dress up as the characters and act out the movie in front of the screen. Other audience participation includes throwing buttered toast, water, toilet paper, and rice at the appropriate points in the movie. What were originally ad lib responses from the audience is now as tightly scripted as any screenplay, and audience members who provide "incorrect" responses are angrily shouted down just as if they being disruptive in a normal movie.

The script of original musical as well as the screenplay of the film were written by Richard O'Brien, who also composed the songs and played Riff-Raff in the film.