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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) (first released in the United Kingdom on 14 August 1975) is a comedy-horror musical film about a newly engaged couple whose car breaks down in an isolated area and who must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr....


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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 fiction, horror, and a rock 'n' roll soundtrack, Rocky Horror celebrates...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical comedy film that parodies science fiction and horror films. With a screenplay written by Richard O'Brien and Jim Sharman, the film features Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick. The film is based...


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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Rocky horror show
04/24/2006: 714 words, approx. 2 pages
STEVE POPPER, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 04-24-2006 Rocky horror show -- Zambrano woes a fright for Mets By STEVE POPPER, STAFF WRITER Date: 04-24-2006, Monday Section: SPORTS Edtion: All Editions SAN DIEGO — Willie Randolph can be stubborn to...
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St. Joseph News-Press
Labels nightclub to have weekend screeningsof cult classic 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'
09/19/2003: 451 words, approx. 2 pages
Amanda Ruckman doesn't want to be thought of as a "Rocky Horror Picture Show" junkie, but she is. When you've seen the 1975 cult classic film as many times as Ruckman has - 500 times at theaters, not to mention countless home viewings...
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The New York Observer
A Second Act Triumph: Little Edie Happy at Last
11/12/2006: 1,495 words, approx. 5 pages
The new Broadway musical Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Greif, is a tale of two acts. After last season’s successful run at Playwrights Horizons, the show’s creators tried to solve the problem of the expository first act, but what they might have done is drop...
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The New York Observer
A Second Act Triumph: Little Edie Happy at Last
11/12/2006: 1,495 words, approx. 5 pages
The new Broadway musical Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Greif, is a tale of two acts. After last season’s successful run at Playwrights Horizons, the show’s creators tried to solve the problem of the expository first act, but what they might have done is drop...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Alexander Stuart
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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 strengthened by the fact that the picture is a parody of the cinema itself, in much the same vein as Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein…. [It's made clear that the parody is aimed at the scifi/horror/monster movies of the '50s and the original classics (such as Frankenstein and King Kong) which were their ins...
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Critical Essay by Tony Rayns
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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 Lib street theatre, end-of-the-pier theatrical tat and B-movie references demands something more original than a simple transposition to film. At least two feasible strategies present themselves: one would be to adopt the idiom of the Fifties' B-movies themselves (thus adding the film to the genre on which it comments), another to ...
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Critical Essay by Irving Wardle
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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 Tarzan to no apparent purpose, but at least it did have a subject. By contrast, I would be hard put to say what Disaster is about. As usual, it takes place on an exotically isolated location; this time a pair of Caribbean islands menaced by the impending collision of two giant icebergs, and the action consists of a race against time to blow t...
 


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