The Rocky Horror Picture Show story
The story centers on a young engaged couple whose car breaks down in the rain near a castle where they seek a telephone to call for help. The castle or country home is occupied by strangers in elaborate costumes celebrating an annual convention. They discover the head of the house is Dr. Frank N. Furter, an apparently mad scientist who actually is an alien transvestite who creates a living muscle man in his laboratory. The couple are seduced separately by the mad scientist and eventually released by the servants who take control. The film is based on the 1973 musical stage production The Rocky Horror Show, with music, book, and lyrics by O'Brien. The production is a parody tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the 1930s through to the early 1960s.
23 total · 2 choice · 10 major · 11 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| sexual norms in society | choice | The film challenged the 70s sexual norms from the transsexual main character Frank-N-Furter, to Frank-N-Furter and Brad having gay sex, to innocent Janet opening up and trying new sexual experiences. |
| transsexualism | choice | Frank-N-Furter was a transvestite alien and a sadistic pervert who perhaps got what was coming to him, we must ponder. |
| alien living secretly among us | major | It transpired that Frank and his cadre were in fact aliens from the planet Transsexual. |
| bisexualism | major | Frank-N-Furter had full sex with both men and women. |
| engaged couple | major | Brad and Janet. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | It transpired that Frank and his cadre were in fact aliens from the planet Transsexual. |
| gender bending | major | Frank-N-Furter was a transvestite and everyone occasionally ended up cross-dressed. |
| hedonism | major | Brad and Janet stumbled in on Frank-N-Furter throwing a wild party. Frank-N-Furter and others indulged themselves in a variety of sexual activities that would have been considered depraved at the time. |
| love triangle | major | Janet, Brad, Frank-N-Furter, and Rocky. |
| male homosexuality | major | Brad gave in to Frank-N-Furter's sexual advances. |