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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was not the first midnight movie, but it is arguably the most well known. With its rebellious blend of "B" movie science ficti...
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Critical Essay by W. Stephen Gilbert
[The Rocky Horror Show is] near-perfect late-night diversion: hilarious, nostalgic, flattering, spoofy, hectic, loud and daft. In fact, camp. (p. 54)
Let's ...
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Critical Essay by W. Stephen Gilbert
T. Zee looks so thin and mean that one goes back to one's enjoyment of Rocky Horror, fearful of the temptation to rewrite history and say it wasn't s...
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Critical Essay by Irving Wardle
On present evidence, Richard O'Brien, of Rocky Horror Show fame, seems a gifted mid-Atlantic parodist who has run out of material. T Zee, his last show, sent up ...
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Critical Essay by Diane K. Shah, with Jennifer Foote and Joseph B. Cumming, Jr.
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" [is] a rather bizarre film about transvestites that impels people to dress...
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Critical Essay by Clive Barnes
["The Rocky Horror Show"] has something in common with Ronald Tavel's "Gorilla Queen," or other American movie spoofs of that genre&#x...
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Critical Essay by Jim Melanson
Based on a book by Richard O'Brien, who also provided music and lyrics, ["The Rocky Horror Show"] comes off as a potpourri of late-night TV horror t...
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Critical Essay by Tony Rayns
An entertainment as singular as The Rocky Horror Show clearly poses greater problems for adaptation to the cinema than most stage originals; its unprecedented blend of Gay...
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Critical Essay by Eric Korn
In a newly written proem for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the American Gothic farm couple stand by the door of a country church to tell us that the movie is groovy, but l...
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Critical Essay by Alexander Stuart
Far from looking like the film of a show, The Rocky Horror Picture Show could well have been created specifically for the screen—an illusion no doubt strength...
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Critical Essay by Pit
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is adapted from a rock stage musical ["The Rocky Horror Show"] that kidded the pants off those old b & w monster f...
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Critical Essay by Allan Jones
[T. Zee] is a chaotic, intermittently amusing production that exploits the styles and myths of Hollywood culture as gratuitously as its predecessor, The Rocky Horror Show...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Critical Essay by W. Stephen Gilbert
