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He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director since the 1960s, and is best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit The Rocky Horror Show, its film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and the film's follow-up, Shock Treatment (1981).
Nov 7, 2015 · Jim Sharman on “Rocky Horror’s” spark: “I don’t think anybody can completely explain it. I think it must be something in the DNA of the movie.”
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Sep 29, 2021 · A financial flop with mediocre reviews upon its initial theatrical release in 1975, in the years since then the Jim Sharman-directed camp freak-out flick has grown beyond anyone's wildest...
Apr 27, 2010 · Jim Sharman is best known for directing the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”. The film became a midnight screening sensation. 2010 marks the 35th anniversary of “RHPS”. Movie Mikes (and some help from “RHPS” uber-fan Dave Picton) was able to ask Jim a few questions about “RHPS” and reflecting on its success over the ...
- It Originally Had A Different Title
- Brad and Janet Were Replaced
- The Story Behind The Lips
- The Costume Designer Didn't Want to Do It
- Tim Curry Wasn’T New to Corsets
- Susan Sarandon's Sickness
- Rocky Was Supposed to Talk
- You Can Book A Room Where It Was Filmed
- The David Bowie Connection
- Meat Loaf Didn't Actually Drive The Motorcycle
The original stage version of the movie had a whirlwind creative process, with Richard O'Brien whipping up the show with his artist and actor friends fairly quickly. As it happens, they were originally rehearsing the show under a different title. It was called They Came From Denton High due to the story being set somewhere near Denton, Texas. Obvio...
The cast of Rocky Horror is mostly unchanged from the stage show to the movie. Richard O'Brien and Jim Sharman kept their creative team mostly intact, too, so when you're watching the movie it should really feel like you're just seeing a filmed version of the stage show. Well, except for a few roles. Aside from the high-profile cameo from Meat Loaf...
Everyone who has seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show-- not to mention plenty of people who have only seen the poster-- are familiar with the lips that open the film. This iconic image is actually the product of several people working together, rather than just one actress. The lips that appear in the film are Patricia Quinn's (who also played Magent...
Costume designer Sue Blane is credited with much of The Rocky Horror Picture Show'slasting appeal thanks to her designs that spoofed the traditions of cinema and leaned heavily into camp. The movie wouldn't be the same without her, but it almost had to do just that, as she wasn't interested in the project at first. In fact, Blane herself saysthat i...
Tim Curry has a long and storied career on the stage and screen, and his rise to prominence came largely thanks to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Given that it was his first hit movie role, people tend to forget that Curry wasn't a complete rookie. Case in point: Curry had actually starred in a similar stage show before originating the role of Fran...
Cinema can be a fickle thing-- while you'd expect film sets to be glamorous affairs, with every possible amenity available to the actors, you would occasionally be very wrong. The Rocky Horror Picture Show was no picnic to make, as the cast and crew had to endure unheated sets while filming scenes in pools. This might not sound like a big deal, but...
Sometimes you've just gotta improvise when you're making a film. While the creative team behind The Rocky Horror Picture Show might have thought they had the perfect casting when they got Peter Hinwood to play the character of Rocky Horror, they changed their minds when they found out he was a model who had zero acting experience. Rocky Horror orig...
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was filmed at Oakley Court in England, a castle that had been host to several horror films in its past. While it may not have been the most welcoming place for the film crew in 1975 (at the time, it had no heating and few bathrooms), it's doing a better job of that nowadays. Oakley Court is now a ritzy hotel, allowing ...
This might seem unrelated to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but it isn't. Pierre LaRoche was one of the creative forces behind David Bowie's now-iconic Ziggy Stardust look, but that wasn't the only influential job the makeup artist held. LaRoche was also the person film producers turned to when they wanted a makeup redesign for the characters in Ro...
Singer and occasional actor Meat Loaf has a memorable turn in Rocky Horror as Eddie, the delivery boy and partial brain donor to Rocky, who is tragically stabbed by Frank N. Furter. Eddie gets a fun entrance, bursting out of a freezer on a motorcycle, but the problem is that Meat Loaf didn't actually ride that motorcycle. Aside from a few less dang...
He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director from the 1960s to the present, but is probably best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit The Rocky Horror Show, its film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the film's follow-up Shock Treatment.
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Nov 28, 2015 · Is it the jumps to the left or the steps to the right – or maybe it’s the pelvic thrusts? The cult classic’s co-writer and director Jim Sharman has his own theory.
