The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

The only reason I checked out this movie on YouTube was because I'd heard it was a cult hit. And Tim Curry. The movie's basically a musical-comedy parody on the ol' Frankenstein story. With a few minor adjustments, of course.

It begins with the newly-engaged Brad and Janet (Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon, back when she wasn't famous yet) who get stranded because their car broke down, and they wander into this castle they passed on earlier to borrow a phone. And that's where the fun begins.

In the castle, they meet its seriously weirded-out inhabitants, first Riff-Raff the handyman, his sister Magenta, and Columbia the groupie, and then Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the cross-dressing scientist from Transsexual, Transylvania (played by the FAH-bulous Tim Curry!) who's just created this Greek God of a man called Rocky Horror. Come to think of it, the whole movie's the opposite of the Frankenstein mythology. The monster's supposed to be hideous; that's why they kept trying to burn him, and Frankenstein's most definitely human-looking. In this movie, well... you get the picture.

So the couple is forced to stay the night, because they don't have access to a phone, and is seduced by Frank in turn. Then Janet finds out that Brad cheated on her with Frank (teehee!), so she cheats on him with Rocky instead. Then Dr. Scott, a mutual acquaintance of Frank and Brad, shows up looking for his missing nephew Eddie, whom Frank has just slaughtered about half an hour ago. Eddie's dead and rather rotten body is revealed during dinner, which leads to Frank chasing Janet around in six-inch heels, because he's still cross-dressed, and Rocky likes her more instead of Frank. That part was rather fun.

Then Brad, Janet, Dr. Scott, Rocky and Columbia gets Medusa'ed (Frank has this machine; Columbia gets it because she likes Eddie and she's upset), and then they get DeMedusa'ed, and do this cabaret-type Floor Show. And then Frank comes in again, does his number, before Riff-Raff and Magenta come in all pissed, because they want to go back to Transylvania (in this movie, it's a galaxy, and Transsexual is a planet. Haha.).

So then they lasered Frank, and Rocky gets upset, and they laser him too. So both of them dies. Riff-Raff and Magenta let the humans get out before the house takes off. And that's how the movie ends.

To be honest (and I'm SOOO gonna get crucified for this), I thought the movie was a crock of bull (the only saving grace was Tim Curry, I've to say), but that was my first time watching it, so after my assignments let up a bit, I'll watch it more properly next time around. I still get a kick out of watching Tim Curry singing Sweet Transvestite in drag, though ;)