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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

★ 7.4 · 3,116 ratings on TMDB

A different set of jaws.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show poster★ 7.4

After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters. Through elaborate dance and rock music, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man.

DirectorJim Sharman
CastBarry Bostwick, Charles Gray, Jonathan Adams, Meat Loaf, Nell Campbell, Patricia Quinn
GenresComedy, Horror, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

The Rocky Horror Picture Show keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, gender, sexuality, rebellion, otherness.

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Also inFilms about othernessFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Æon Flux (2005)E4/E11 · rare rung · identity, rebellionInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)E13/E14 · rare rung · identity, otherness

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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