A ludicrously singular drugs-sex-and-rock’n’roll fantasy-nightmare – which is intermittently hilarious.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 6, 2025

While it has its flaws, much of that is wonderfully lambasted by the audience participation, which has grown and adapted with each generation adding something and making this multi-generational experience one that you won’t soon forget.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 21, 2023

There's music, too, and drag, and all manner of strange beings.

| May 6, 2023

This musical horror-comedy, which follows a young couple as they stumble on a castle housing a curious group of sexually liberated characters, is one of the most influential films of the 20th century.

| Oct 27, 2022

Sounds like the hokiest story in the book, right? But The Rocky Horror Picture Show transcends the corn by introducing countless conventions out of film history and then, with a minimum of cheap shots, turning them upside down.

Full Review | May 10, 2022

Stripping away the live elements, one finds a movie at the heart of this all. It's a pretty bad movie, as even some of the most die-hard adherents will admit.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2021

Astounding, yet never fleeting...

| Aug 24, 2021

If we choose one piece of culture ephemera to beam into space to let aliens know we're here, let it be this. The universe is filled with weirdos lost in time, lost in space, but through Rocky Horror perhaps we can find one another.

| Sep 22, 2020

For the most part it moves spiritedly along and the whole thing is a giant giggle. It's all so blatantly outrageous it can only be taken in the spirit of campy fun; this is one time a stage production has been enhanced by the film version.

| May 21, 2020

The music is only adequate, and the acting leaves something to be desired, except in the case of Tim Curry, who manages some fine turns as Dr. Frank N. Furter.

| Nov 22, 2019

Famous for its allure as an audience-participation event, this adaptation of the stage musical works just fine as a solo viewing at home, with no resultant diminishment of its highlights.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 10, 2015

a lot of fun for fans of the science fiction and horror genres

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 18, 2014

One hundred minutes of pure queer celebration that manages to concoct a bizarre cocktail of sincerity and reckless abandon.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 31, 2012

It's like art-rockers Roxy Music let loose on Frankenstein - ludicrous, but oddly compelling. And it even stars Meat Loaf.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2012

A great midnight movie experience in the theaters, but the film itself is a bit of a bore.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 30, 2010

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a brilliant mistake, a faithful-to-a-fault love letter to bad taste that changed the very definition of bad taste.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2010

"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is an exploitation film that draws on a grab-bag of social identifiers to expand on conventional hypocrisies...

| Original Score: FIVE STARS | Apr 12, 2009

Most of the jokes that might have seemed jolly fun on stage now appear obvious and even flat. The sparkle's gone.

| Jan 11, 2008

The film itself is a lot of fun -- but the audience-participation phenomenon has turned it into a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 11, 2008

That celebration of being unique and surreal, whether Gay, straight, or just an oddball, all around.

| Oct 24, 2007