Product ReviewsThe Rocky Horror Picture Show (DVD, 2002, Single Disc)

Tim Curry's Finest Hour

This film is not for everyone. You may question its morality, and the second half lags, as if the scriptwriter had already exhausted all the really great ideas in the first half and decided, "Let's put on a show!" The floor show kind of doesn't fit with the plot, and the viewer is left wondering if Frank, the transvestite mad scientist who creates a studly boy toy for his absolute pleasure, was right or wrong. But let's face it, Brad and Janet were just TOO uptight to enjoy life before they met Frank, the songs are incredible, and Tim Curry's performance as Frank is nothing short of brilliant. The contrast between Frank, who looks disturbingly sexy in fishnets and a corset, is so far removed from Curry's usual masculine upper crust British characters that one suspects he might have a secret bisexual twin who stepped in to play the wild, uninhibited Frank N. Furter. Watching this film on DVD, you will miss all the audience comments, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. When you aren't getting soaked by water or pelted with hotdogs, you can concentrate on the movie, which is a great spoof of horror film cliches. SEE IT --- you will either hate it, or become a big fan.Read full review...

Too Bad The "Show" is Nearly Gone...

Classic! In order to do Rocky Horror, you have to know Rocky Horror. The movie on its own is pretty boring, I have to admit. However, the cult phenomenon that was a night out at The Rocky Horror Picture Show, was once something not to be missed. Too bad hardly any theaters will let casts perform it anymore! This DVD features an additional soundtrack of various casts shouting various lines, which is a great idea on the surface. Unfortunately, they're never shouting out the same lines and talk over eachother so often that it gives me a headache. (and I'm a Rocky veteran)I got this so my own older children might be able to experience the show, and it almost works. I'd suggest downloading a few scripts (with shouted lines added) from the internet and picking your favorite before you watch this, though. After that, get a copy of The Time Warp and dance the night away with your kids. Good times will be had, I promise! (Just remember, don't fall down at the end of the song!!!) Oh, and in case you couldn't figure it out, I mean OLDER kids...this IS NOT for young 'uns.Read full review...

RHPS is a classic. Some would say classicly BAD, but...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a cult classic. Nice to finally have it on DVD. It's not quite the same as seeing the film in a small theater with a hundred or so of your strangest friends. I used to play the part of Riff-Raff in a weekly midnight showing in Atlanta, GA. This is a nice way to relive old memories and pass along the film to another generation so they can say, "Man! This film is BAD! But it's just so bad that it's hilarious." For anyone who has NOT seen the film, go see it first at a midnight showing show you can get the full effect. Then... come back and get it on DVD.Read full review...

Better In The Theatre, Fun At A Party, Stinks Alone

I saw Rocky Horror Picture Show in the Chelsea Theatre in Manhattan, and it was great. Actor/Fans dressed all the parts and acted out scenes in the front of the theatre. Fans seated in the audience screamed funny and obscure things at the screen. It was like being drunk without drinking. Live theatre for the poor (cost just a regular ticket to the movies $10). Ingenious.
The DVD lacks the crowd mentality. It's always fun at a Halloween party, but I'd never sit and watch it myself alone. I'd feel I alone was talking to the screen, kind of cuckoo.
I assume most big cities have a Rocky Horror showing with the live actors. Maybe not. If you can get to a showing, though, I fully reccommend it. It's not exactly life-changing, but its fun and inexpensive entertainment. If you can't get to a theatre showing, I guess the DVD is allright.Read full review...

Rocky Horror Picture Show ; what fun to watch.

Its just a jump to the left. Time warp applies for the good memories this movie evokes thinking back to those late night midnight shows in the late seventies and early eighties. If there was a show close to where I live now, chances are there would be a group of us that would stay up late and go if the walkers fit in the isles. lolRead full review...

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For 40 years, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW has delighted audiences and terrified parents.

I absolutely love this movie. My favorite hands down. Tim Curry is a brightly shining star in everything he does, and he will never stop shining. The numbers are amazing. This movie teaches you not to dream it, but to be it. So give yourself over to absolute pleasure and watch the rocky horror picture show.Read full review...

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Fun old Classic

Classic Old Movie. With over the top characters and a funky sound track.

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Fun cult classic musical.

This is my 2nd time buying this funny and edgy movie, lost the first one and I'm not ready to let it go. Fun cult classic musical. "Let's do the time warp again."

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Rocky Horror Picture Show - Artistically Significant

Rocky Horror is an artistic phenomenon. People who see it usually want to see it again. It has been a staple in many movie theaters for midnight movies in college towns for decades. The music in it does not show age.

The production started as a stage play about the heroin and drug culture in London. It was there but it wasn't unless you happened to open the door. Cultures within cultures, life not as we know it, pleasure unknown, fear of the new and fears even within it born of it, different systems of belief and ethics and philosophies that the normal world finds impossible and prefers invisible. Like most mysteries in stereotype, the butler wrote it, of all things. It's incredible even deacdes after it became a vehicle for the relatively new talents showcased, most household names or familiar in the modern entertainment industry. The leads all have become stars in their own right, with Meatloaf a musician recognized internationally in days nearly demanding cover boy skinny looks for stars.

Artistically the root in the subculture within another which was so obvious is significant. The heroin subculture really existed in London. Today England has a modern attitude toward heroin use and that kind of subculture is not so obvious. Yet the reality is that even without that extreme obviousness, every culture, every community, has cultures within its larger description. An advertisement for sociology and cultural anthropology awareness on the local level.

Artistically also a description of a system of belief which is a description of the artist angst and energy feeding the vision and hope of a group. An echo of Robert Browning the poet being described as a leading light of his society of the time (light at the end of the tunnel reference). To participate with the art is to have that end of that tunnel there before one gets there .... And sometimes, the art is the only statement of hope that some do have in their lives.

The DVD out now has the straight play of the movie as one might see it in a theater plus a version with audience interaction in costume. I've seen the rocky horror picture show so many times, and I've seen movie star bodies in dress doing this. In Phoenix in 1979 a person actually had a flame thrower that could do a ten foot flame when the song would say "there's a light, over at the Franken .. etc" . No one was ever hurt. A statement itself. Different is not always danger. This version is not necessarily the groups who go out to movie castings during the week and then do the show weekends. It's normal people. A letdown for some, but reality is what it is. The show itself is not a letdown. A classic worth having on one's shelf. Never look at the world the same way again is the invitation.Read full review...

Brings back memories

Very good quality dvd. Enjoyed the movie a lot. Hadn’t seen it since my high school days. Excellent music and very entertaining.

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