The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Lets Do the Time Warp Again

Alert: The following contains low-cal spoilers for "The Rocky Horror Film Bear witness." Though, come up on, you've had 45 years to see how awesome it is. Get with the program.

"I would like to take you on a strange journey."

The late Charles Gray'due south opening words as the criminologist narrator of "The Rocky Horror Picture Testify" couldn't be more apt. Since 1975, many, many have embraced this wild and wonderful confection that'south part campy musical, office horror and all midnight motion-picture show.

For the uninitiated, "Rocky Horror" – a picture show version of creator Richard O'Brien's stage show – stars Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick equally Janet Weiss and Brad Majors, a couple of Midwestern squares waylaid past a diddled-out tire. They venture to a nearby castle, where they notice all way of weirdness perpetrated by Dr. Frank-Due north-Furter (Tim Curry), a cross-dressing mad scientist from the planet Transsexual in the Transylvania galaxy.

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The picture is an ode to old-school science fiction, Hollywood and rock 'northward' roll, as well as an exploration of sexual expression and gender fluidity. It'south also brimming-total of catchy songs. To gloat Friday's 45th anniversary of "Rocky Horror," we're definitively ranking them all. (Fun fact: There's not a stinker in the agglomeration.)

15. 'In one case in a While'

Bostwick'due south solo tune, which Brad sings afterwards he cheats on Janet with Frank and ponders their relationship – as Janet watches via secret camera – got axed from the picture'southward final cut. (You tin can find information technology in the extras on diverse dwelling house-video releases.) Information technology's a fine song but definitely not up to snuff comparatively.

14. 'Super Heroes'

A melancholic, space-rock number that appears simply in the movie's U.One thousand. cutting serves every bit an epilogue of sorts after a destructive finale where Brad and Janet take stock of what's happened over the course of a life-altering nighttime.

13. 'Eddie'

At an awkward dinner, where cannibalism is on the bill of fare, Brad and Janet's college professor Dr. Everett Scott (Jonathan Adams) explains how he wound up at the castle, likewise: His juvenile-runaway nephew Eddie (more on him in a scrap) got caught up in Frank's charms and sent him a bloody note for help. The all-time vocal in the musical that involves a teddy deport. (To be fair, there is only one.)

12. 'Planet Schmanet, Janet'/'Planet Hot Dog'

"Y'all better wise upward, Janet Weiss," Frank warns Sarandon's heroine in a rollicking vocal in which he chases her around the castle before his evil programme is unveiled and the good guys are turned into statues. Plus, how tin can you not honey the lyric "Don't go hot and flustered/Employ a bit of mustard" from a guy named Frank-N-Furter?

11. 'The Sword of Damocles'

Rocky (Peter Hinwood), a blond and tanned muscle man created by Frank in his laboratory, runs around in gold briefs in his groovy "It's live!" moment equally the non-so-good medico screams and obsessively chases after him. "Oh! Woe is me! My life is a misery," Rocky sings, although his is a spunky number absolute by "Sha la la's" from the Transylvanian chorus.

10. 'Over at the Frankenstein Place'

Afterwards their car breaks downward, Brad and Janet trudge through the pelting and sing this hopeful and a little hymnal ballad about seeing a guiding light at the castle that will lead them to rubber – non knowing yet what's in store for them.

9. 'I Tin Make You a Man'

The Charles Atlas bodybuilding ads of yesteryear, where a bullied xc-pound weakling tin can turn himself effectually past hit the gym, is the inspiration for Frank's multilayered tune – with tinkling-pianoforte verses taking turns with a swaggering chorus – that's both an ode to hit the weights as well as creating 1'due south own vitrify lover.

viii. 'Dammit Janet'

After attending a nuptials of some friends at the commencement of the film, blimp-shirt Brad and bouquet-catching Janet croon their love and devotion to each other – and become engaged! – and false-walk down the aisle accompanied past strings and backup vocals from some sinister members of the church.

vii. 'I'yard Going Home'

When Frank realizes the jig is up and he needs to go back to his planet, he sings this very emotional, Bowie-esque melody to say goodbye – although information technology won't be a happy ending for the bisexual alien physician.

6. 'Hot Patootie – Anoint my Soul'

In the movie's 2d-best character introduction, '70s rocker Meat Loaf dons denim and a tenor saxophone as delivery-boy biker dude Eddie, who breaks out of the deep freeze ex-lover Frank stuck him in for a rambunctious, ear-worming romp. It'southward all proficient times until a jealous Frank grabs a pickaxe.

5. 'Rose Tint My World'

The three-part epic begins with feather boas and garters galore every bit Frank dresses up our heroes for his climactic flooring show, where the formerly conservative Brad and Janet each get a mini-monologue nigh being sexually released. An orchestral fanfare leads to "Don't Dream Information technology," Frank'due south carol shouting out Fay Wray as a mode icon, and later on floating on a Titanic life preserver, the action shifts to the electric, high-kicking number "Wild and Untamed Thing." Totally worth it to come across Sarandon and Bostwick both rocking out in lingerie and loftier heels.

4. 'Science Fiction/Double Characteristic'

The movie opens with an overture of sorts performed by a pair of disembodied lips that have become the signature "Rocky Horror" authentication. Sung by O'Brien (who also stars as hunchbacked handyman Riff Raff), the quirky pop tribute to B-movies and serials includes many references that inform the movie'south narrative. (Y'all may need to Google.)

3. 'Touch on-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me'

Sarandon gets her fourth dimension to shine with this sensual and peppy solo. Janet and Brad are put in split up rooms and both are seduced in the night past a shape-shifting Frank – in Janet'due south case, losing her virginity. Lamentable and confused, she runs into an escaped Rocky and now has quite the sexual "itch to scratch."

two. 'Sweet Transvestite'

"I'1000 not much of a man by the lite of mean solar day, only by nighttime I'grand i hell of a lover," Curry'south Frank-N-Furter proclaims in his sassy, strutting piece of glam rock, throwing off his cloak, posing confidently in a corset and fishnets, and playfully breaking the fourth wall in ane of cinema'due south all-time entrances.

i. 'Time Warp'

Exuberant and infectious, "Fourth dimension Warp" has transcended the movie as a song that tells yous how to do it right in the lyrics. In the flick, however, it'due south a number with doughnuts, tap dancing and many pelvic thrusts that gives a shocked Brad and Janet (and the audience) a very proficient hint that this isn't your everyday musical.

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