Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

Near Denton TexasEverything is Weirder in TexasThe outlook is sunny at the beginning of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. We open at a church, all bright, happy, and covered in crosses. It's the polar...

Can't Turn BackThe first time you see The Rocky Horror Picture Show, you're an outsider looking in. But before you know it, you've tugged on your fishnets and applied more eyeliner than Katy Perry...

Musical / Parody / ComedySee a B-MovieEverything you need to know about the genre of The Rocky Horror Picture Show is in the opening number, "Science Fiction/Double Feature." CHORUS: See androids f...

The short answer is that the play was called The Rocky Horror Show. Because this is a movie, i.e. moving pictures, it was re-titled The Rocky Horror Picture Show to distinguish it from the stage ve...

Rocky Falls, Everyone DiesIn many bad B-movies of yesteryear, the writers had no idea how to end the film, so the trope Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies was born. Or it died. Or it did both simultaneously...

RBelieve it or not, a musical with a song titled "Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me" is rated R for raciness. And this is still one saucy, sexed-up flick: characters have relationships with people o...