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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (2 Disc Special Edition) [1975] | ![The Rocky Horror Picture Show (2 Disc Special Edition) [1975]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518M8E7H15L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Jim Sharman
Actors: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'brien, Patricia Quinn
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: £22.99
Buy New: £4.94
You Save: £18.05 (79%)
New (12) Used (3) from £3.76
Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 1193
Format: Box Set, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: Czech (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 96
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
EAN: 5039036004312
ASIN: B0000560XZ
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 1975
Release Date: February 9, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand new. Dispatched within 2 working days from UK by first class post (airmail if shipping outside UK)- ensures speedy delivery.
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Love it!! August 26, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Is it wrong that I remember watching Rocky Horror as a child and not finding anything at all strange about it?
How can you describe Rocky Horror? Ingenuis songs and music? Hugely likeable and amusing characters? Brilliant acting? I think it's a combination of them all.
I think Rocky Horror is a bit like marmite and I'm firmly in the 'love it' category. For those who aren't sure if they'd enjoy it, the plot is this.
Brad and Janet, two ordinary healthy kids, left Denton to visit a Dr Everett Scott. Along the way they have a blown tyre. They wander along the road looking for help and stumble upon an old castle. Janet, terrified, doesn't want to go any further. Brad, being the tought bloke insists they need to get to a phone and call for help.
The castle's inhabitants aren't what they expect and they are dragged into a world they would never have thought existed...
What can be said about the acting that hasn't been said. Tim Curry is fantastic in this part (and curiously attractive..and that's from a straight female!). His voice is superb, his facial expressions are hilarious and the sheer perfection of his lipstick application is something to behold. It's a shame he now distances himself from Rocky Horror as he feels he's been typecast as this is probably his best ever performance. Tim Curry is a true showman, and it's shown in Rocky.
The music in this film is not only ingenuis, but massively catchy. I love how it's got a rock undertone and unlike Grease (dare I say it!) it's not cheesy. While the sets aren't stunning, that doesn't matter. Rocky captures something else. I guess that's what makes it so special, it's impossible to know what makes grown men dress in drag to go to the theatre to see this 25 year on, but Rocky manages it effortlessly.
I guess a lot of people are freaked out by the notion of transvestytes and the bi-sexuality of Frank-n-Furter. I don't feel freaked out at all. In fact, Rocky makes me feel the same way Priscilla Queen of the Desert makes me feel. You just want to shed your inhibitions and say 'to hell with it!'
This film is just something else. I've been brought up on it's music, themes and general outragousness. Rocky also creates an open minded view about a lot of aspects in our society that we shun, or try and distance ourselves from. Despite Frank-n-Furter's actions, I felt sorry for him in the end. The thing is, we never actually know if he's good or bad. He just seems lost, and in a way it's tragic.
A fantastic film, which will very probably make you sing along.
(Also, keep an eye out for the Crystal Dome when they do the castle shot. No doubt Richard O'Brien's inspiration for his other classic idea!)
DVD version is superb November 5, 2001
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Not only this film an absolute classic with one of the best sound tracks I have ever heard in my life, but the DVD version is brilliant. It is worth the money just for all the special features alone, including the "Theatrical Experience", the audience participation tracks and the obligatory interviews.Absolute genius.
franknfantastic!!!!! August 2, 2005
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
You must own this! A delightful, decadent display of bizarre, beautiful, transylvanian wackiness! Weird and wonderful. I guarantee you will become completely mesmerised by the sweetest transvestite in town - the delicious Dr Frank n Furter. He will lure you (you lucky things) further into the realms of pleasure with every pout, pucker, and fishnetted strut! All in all compelling entertainment and damn fine fun!!!!!!!!!
Get those lewd, lavicous lips! April 4, 2002
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is perhaps the greatest and most enduring cult classic to date. The plot is unimportant, virgins get stuck in rain, end up at castle and enter world of sexual awakening blah, blah, blah. Great songs, a chance to dress in drag and throw stuff at the screen and great songs. What more could you want? Oh yeah and tons of extras on the DVD. Well this has it all, at least 3 different ways to watch the film (audience participation included) and a host of interviews, tours, and other bits. The presentation is great and the menus well thought out, I dare you to not laugh at the legs. Go on let your inner transvestite out for a night.
a work of genius March 12, 2006
13 out of 18 found this review helpful
I think that the Rocky Horror is a film you either love or hate- there is no in between. There have been occasions when I have watched it with a large group of people, and some people say things along the line of 'what is this rubbish? what is the point?', whilst the others are staring mesmerised at the screen, a look of wonder on their faces.
I am one of the latter. I cannot put into words how much I love this film. It has THE best lines ("I could show you my latest...obsession. I've been making a man with blond hair and a tan, and he's good for relieving my...tension"), it has THE coolest transvestite in the history of the world, THE best songs...and it actually makes me laugh so much every time I see it...
True, it is a bizarre film and the plot is basically non-existant. But never boring. How can something with cannibalism, crazy dances and transvestites from Translyvania be boring? It is a classic, and I recommend it to everyone in the whole world. Don't try to understand it. There is nothing to understand. Just sit back, and wallow in its lovely crazyiness.
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