[I still don't have the definition of the cult movie, but I'm working on it...]"I would like - if I may - to take you on a strange journey" - says some odd narrator-like criminologist holding in his hand a case-book of "The Denton Affair". Yes, the movie is about a couple, Brad and Janet (by Susan Sarandon), who left Denton to visit Dr. Everett Scott (or Dr. Everett von Scott!...) in the middle of the night on a late November evening. But a huge storm crossed their way and aims, and they had to find help in a remote castle, where the "Annual Transylvanian Convention" was held. The place is full with strange characters, but the most weird is among them their leader, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite from the transsexual Transylvania (don't ask why is the latter part of the syntagma, the reason must be some sick alliteration). Anyway, they are partying quite hard, involving the couple (for me Sarandon is the real monster with her scary huge eyes...), and creating a Frankenstein-type muscle figure called "Rocky Horror". (He isn't the scariest: my personal favorite is Riff Raff, the boss' hunchbacked servant (played by Richard O'Brian, the film's music- and screenplay writer), who's voice was later imitated by Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers series:).
Ow, I almost forgot: the film is a musical (btw you probably knew this important detail even if you haven't seen the movie - see my missing definition of the cult...). It means - what a surprise - they are singing. A lot. I mean they are communicating with each other mostly through songs. Just like you've seen in the new - mostly overestimated (by me too) - Tim Burton film. Actually it is perfect to compare these two films, ...because they are so different. The Sweeney Todd's best parts are when they are (Depp and Bonham-Carter) not singing - and Jim Sharman's RHPS's big moments are when they are. Burton's movie as a musical is a failure, Sharman's musical as a film either.
It seems I don't like the musical-films or film-musicals. But listen, here comes my real point: Have you seen Brian de Palma's Phantom of the Paradise, which was released ONE year earlier than this famous-cult (grrr) Rocky Horror PS?? If not, you should immediately! That is the movie which deserves all the appreciation and cultic status what the latter one owns. But as our heroes say: "Madness takes its toll" - it seems even in our taste and film historic honor as well.
To summarize: if you're Susan Sarandon's fan, you should watch it (let's say she isn't "overdressed") / if you want a real horror show you shouldn't (but doubtless de Palma's film) / if you like musicals you should (the music is really ok) / if you have expectations coming from its cultic fame (>†π#@!), you definitely shouldn't / in one word: this time you decide.
but at least I warned you: "Don't get hot and flustered, use a bit of mustard!" :)
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