The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Trivia

• For the 25th anniversary edition, the song dubs are replaced by the 5.1 songs from the soundtrack record; Rocky's voice part is sung by a completely different actor.
• The surround mixes themselves did not appear on early prints of the movie; it was remixed into Chace Surround Stereo in the 1980s, and later prints tend to have this soundtrack (identifiable primarily because Rocky sings through most of the Floor Show, instead of speaking his lines) as well as the often missing "Superheroes" scene at the end, where Brad, Janet, and Dr Scott are lost in a foggy glen.
• On the 25th Anniversary DVD, scroll down to Special Features (don't select it) and push left. This should highlight a pair of lips, which, when selected, will play the director's intended vision; the first 20 minutes are black and white, turning to colour when Riff Raff swings open the door, revealing Transylvanians (a la The Wizard of Oz). Richard O'Brien originally intended for the film to be in black and white until Frank's appearance in the lift, the only colour in that particular shot being his red lipstick.
• The entire laboratory set was constructed with access only via an elevator (lift) before the team realised that Doctor Scott would need to reach it extremely quickly in a wheelchair. This is the sole reason for his appearance through a wall.
• In the stage play, Doctor Scott does not have a German accent. Richard O'Brien claims that he advised the Fox team that Tim Curry's line "or should I say Doctor von Scott?!" would make no sense if everyone already knew he was German. They ignored him and the line remains one of the most baffling in the film, particularly since they left in Barry Bostwick's pun "Great Scott" (the nickname of a famous British explorer), which was originally designed to give a British theatre audience the opposite impression. The parallel to Stanley Kubrick's character of Doctor Strangelove is easily recognisable, up to and including the attempted Nazi salute.
• Fox refused permission for the backdrop of the "stage show" scene to contain the 20th Century Fox logo.
• Susan Sarandon was unwell during the entire shooting of the film, suffering high temperatures and fever due to a severe case of influenza.
• An adventure game called Rocky Horror Interactive Picture Show was released to much hype but very little success. It was criticised for having a clumsy interface and outdated (2D) graphics.
• There are at least three adult videos with names parodying the movie: The Rock Horror Porno Show, the Rocky Porno Video Show (which, surprisingly, actually does a creditable job parodying the movie as well, as unlikely as that may sound), and the Rock Erotic Video Show, whose box has characters costumed in a fashion which might suggest that it follows the plot of the movie somewhat... but does not.
• There are several coincidences between Pink Floyd's Album and Film The Wall. Nell Campbell, who in Rocky Horror plays a character listed in the credits as "Columbia (A groupie)", plays "groupie" in the film Pink Floyd's The Wall. Tim Curry, who played Frank, also played a character in Roger Waters' extravagant concert performace of The Wall Live in Berlin in 1990. The two also share a rather recognisable sound effect which seems equally inexplicable and out of place in both, being used when the wheelchair is pulled across the room and when the RKO tower collapses in Rocky Horror, and at the end of In the Flesh? in The Wall. Finally, one of the distinctive images of the film of The Wall is a terrified-looking face pushing through the wall, which is almost identical to the front cover of II: The Beast Within, the sequel to the very popular game Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, in which the main character's voice actor was Tim Curry (Frank).
• Tim Curry was the guest host of Saturday Night Live with Meatloaf as the musical guest in 1981. This show included a sketch with Tim and Meat together called "Tim And Meat's One Stop Rocky Horror Shop" Eddie Murphy also alluded heavily to Rocky Horror in the shows' opening monologue with Tim Curry.