-- Well, just popped in for a coffee and hey guess what - I wrote a review! Its been a while, but I...
-- Well, just popped in for a coffee and hey guess what - I wrote a review! Its been a while, but I think I've still got the hang of it....
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I never really understood the appeal of this film until I heard the music and watched the film. Yes, I know that sounds faintly loopy – but you know what I mean. You hear people talking about it. You read things saying how good it is. But you just think to yourself – “Well it’s not really MY Sort of film”.
Well, my advice to you – if you feel the same way as I did – forget it. Watch this film and prepare yourself for a Classic. No two ways about it, this creation from the occasionally warped mind of Richard O’Brien (yes he of Crystal Maze fame) should be required watching.
This really is a cult movie in the grandest sense. Tim Curry, of course, completely steals the show in his suspenders and with his vampishly outrangeous performance. Richard O'Brien wrote the brilliant score including the ‘cultier than cult’ classic 'Time Warp'. I cannot think of many Parties, Disco nights or holidays I've been on where this song has not guaranteed the dancefloor to be packed with timewarpers going absolutely MENNNTTTAAAAAAALLLLLL for it.
Sorry, I’ll try and calm down a bit. What’s it all about (Alfie…!), then.
There is a plot (as if anyone really cares) - based around geek, Brad (Barry Bostwick now seen on TV in ‘Spin City’ as the Mayor) and his fiancée Janet (Susan Sarandon). They're travelling to meet their science professor when their car gets a flat tyre. They stumble across an old castle, in their hunt to find some help and come across all kinds of weird and wonderful characters.
There is Riff-Raff – a handyman supposedly, with a nice line in hunchbacks. The master of the castle is Dr Frank-n-Furter (Curry). He is a transvestite scientist (now having read this far, I think you must be beginning to get the drift, the merest hint ,that this film is wacky!!!). Frank happens to be from another planet - the planet Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania!. He introduces Brad and Janet to his latest creation – Rocky – who is big and blond! Eddie (played by the one and only Meatloaf) makes a brief appearance about now. He is technically Rocky’s father, Frank having transplanted his brain into Rocky. He’s killed by Frank after he escapes from the deep freeze.
Lost you yet?
Later on in the proceeedings, Frank seduces Brad....and then Janet. She then finds Rocky and seduces him. And theres more - Dr. Scott, their professor turns up there too!
I could go on, I really could. If you’ve seen the film – you know what happens, if you haven’t…well why not?
Amazing, the more I think of it how many people this movie and the songs have reached - not just one generation of students, shall we say, from 20 something years ago - but teens, twenties, thirties and more love it just as much today.
It is a GREAT Film. And in an age when that adjective is used far too frequently – this FILM IS GREAT!!! Fantastic glam and vampish costumes. Great, great rocking, singalong music. And a cast full of household names.
FAAAAANTASSTIC - A real Time Warp
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Production Year: 1999 - Music / Performing Arts - Original Language: English - Classification: Exempt - Starring: Donny Osmond, Joan Collins, Richard Attenborough
Fantastic film!!! I leave a message in your homepage-box!!! Byeeeeeeee!!!! Tizi
KarenUK 26.08.2001 00:47
Brilliant op on a wonderful film, you managed to capture it really well, Keith :-)
pagan 23.08.2001 22:15
My other half is a real RHPS fan - we've been to see it loads. He even has his own surgeons gown, specially made for him. We saw Jason Donovan as Frank and he was amazing (better than we expected)As for my otehr half? Yes, I know - he needs to get out more!
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Advantages: MeatLoaf, the Time Warp, and as close to being at the theatre as you can be at home Disadvantages: It's Rocky, What disadvantages could there be??
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