![]() ![]() This reveal, and the sonic transducer scene signal the film's shift from horror references to straight science fiction. This trope continued to the modern day with films like "The Rocketeer" and "The Frighteners" returning to the secret-Nazi twist. Scott - is revealed to have joined the U.S. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" where the titular doctor - in a wheelchair, much like Dr. One of the most famous of these reveals comes from an A-picture, "Dr. The somewhat nonsensical third-act twist that reveals that Brad and Janet's high school science teacher is a secret German and UFO expert for the government is one that comes from a number of post-WWII cheapie pictures, where characters are revealed to have been secret Nazis. Furter in his song "Sweet Transvestite." The doctor sings that Brad and Janet might prefer to "take in an old Steve Reeves movie." Steve Reeves was a bodybuilder-turned-actor who made a number of Hercules and sword-and-sandel cheapie epics. Rocky himself fulfills the bodybuilder type foreshadowed by Frank N. The final beach party movie produced by American International Pictures, the originator of the genre, "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini," features a blend of the beach party and "The Old Dark House" genres as a bunch of dancing teens are kept in a decrepit mansion full of weird characters and supernatural experiences. Von Zipper is an ineffectual bully who runs his own biker gang, the Rat Pack. While parodying a specific biker-movie cliche, Eddie also has his roots in the Eric Von Zipper role played by Harvey Lembeck in the '60s series of beach party movies. Many of the characters in the film reflect certain archetypes that found themselves appearing again and again in B-movie pictures, from the chaste and dull leads of Brad and Janet to "The Wild Angels"-esque Eddie, played by musician Meatloaf in the film. They range from the obvious - the song "Over at the Frankenstein Place," Magenta's "Bride of Frankenstein" hairdo in the final moments of the film -to the more subtle and obscure - Riff Raff attacking Rocky with the candlestick mirrors Fritz attacking the Monster in "Frankenstein," and the creation of Rocky features identical machinery and costuming as the creation of the monster in Hammer's "Curse of Frankenstein." ![]() Throughout the film are frequent references to both the Universal Frankenstein series from the '30s and '40s and the Hammer Frankenstein series which ran in the '50s and '60s. Frank-N-Furter, is the highlight of Fox's lackluster remake of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." MUST CREDIT: Steve Wilkie, Fox ** Usable by BS, CT, DP, FL, HC, MC, OS, SD, CGT and CCT ** (Steve Wilkie / Fox) The film follows three women's descent into a world of debauchery, much as the chaste Brad and Janet are inducted into the world of Dr. Scott's journey through the mansion, a poster for "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," the sexually charged film written by Roger Ebert and directed by exploitation-master Russ Meyer, is prominently displayed. ![]() Furter's downfall as tragic rather than justified comeuppance.ĭuring Dr. "Rocky Horror" follows this structure precisely, but repaints Dr. EC comics of the era were known for their repetitive and formulaic plot structure - with imaginative ideas placed on that framework - where an act of selfishness or evil is repaid in a horrific or ironic twist. "Weird Fantasy" was published in the 1950s by comic book publisher EC Comics, best known for their "Tales from the Crypt" series which spawned its own television series and several feature films in the '90s. The background of "Rocky Horror" is peppered with in-jokes and visual nods to other films that reflect the themes of the work.ĭuring one of the scenes of the Criminologist-as-narrator, a copy of the comic book "Weird Fantasy" is pictured as evidence. References extend beyond plot similarities to other films. ![]()
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