The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a horror comedy adapted from Richard O’Brien’s 1973 London musical The Rocky Horror Show.
Located at the intersections between fantasy, science fiction, horror parody and B-movie, the film is a blend of glam-rock opera and cartoon. marinated in innuendo and steeped in sexuality, it tells the story of this strait-laced couple whose car breaks down on a stormy night. They take refuge in the mysterious castle of Dr Frank-N-Furter, a transsexual from Transylvania. In the lair of Dr Frank-N-Furter, the occupants indulge in debauchery under the half-terrified, half-concupiscent gaze of our two lost friends. A veritable icon of transgression, a Dionysian and androgynous figure, Frank-N-Furter extols the virtues of dramatic sexual liberation and openness to pleasure.

Beneath the extravagant exterior of the zany, glam-rock parody, the moral and message of The Rocky Horror Picture Show is deeper than might appear at first glance. Both cinematic and political, it is a film born of the sexual revolution of the late 1960s, when heterosexual and homosexual monogamy alike were strongly criticised. A porno-chic musical comedy, this film echoes the American horror cinema of the 70s, where violence is used to illustrate a general malaise and lack of confidence in the major institutions of American society. The Rocky Horror Picture Show parodies the institutions of marriage and the family with a discreet sense of paranoia that haunts the narrative.

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PLEASE NOTE: For scheduling reasons, this event cannot be combined with the Rocky Horror Picture Show-themed Cabaret event taking place at Les Riches-Claires on the same evening.