The Rocky Horror Picture Show

If there’s one film in the world which can be called a ‘cult classic’ without hesitation, it’s this one. A legend of queer, camp, and ostentatious tackiness, filled with humor and timeless songs – The Rocky Horror Picture Show has it all. The film, based on a stage musical, tells the story of a young couple, Janet (wonderfully innocent Susan Sarandon) and Brad (Barry Bostwick), who get a flat tire during a trip and are forced to spend the night in a castle owned by Doctor Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry, whose role is now shrouded in an aura of queer holiness), self-proclaimed sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania. As it turns out, there’s a gathering of guests as unconventional as the host of the gloomy castle, where Frank-N-Furter is supposed to present his latest creation – a muscular, golden-haired android Rocky, a perfect man and sex-toy all in one. The inventor also has his plans for innocent Janet and Brad… At first Sherman’s film was rejected by the critics, but then it was appreciated as a cult midnight movie and can now lay claim not only to its status as a canonical work of queer cinema, but also to one of the longest uninterrupted theatrical releases in history – Rocky Horror Picture Show can still be found in cinema repertoires (not only in America!), even though over fifty years passed from its premiere.