"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" [is] a rather bizarre film about transvestites that impels people to dress in drag and act as if they were stark-raving mad…. Rocky Horror is a rock-musical parody of the old Saturday-matinee, science-fiction and monster movies, and it's becoming one of the hottest cult films in memory. Viewers not only dress like the characters, but they tote their own props, coach the actors, shout stage directions and dance "The Time Warp" in the aisles right along with the principals.

The movie itself is outrageous—a mildly X-rated pastiche that is tasteless, plotless and pointless save for the infantile exhortation to "Give yourself over to total pleasure."…

Some middle-aged viewers are disgusted by the film's blatant transsexuality; others merely dislike it. But most of the young fans see it simply as a madcap monster mash where the monsters just seem to have unorthodox sexual...