The Rocky Horror Picture Show Chronicle" John Wasserman, who had liked the stage play in London, found the film "lacking both charm and dramatic impact". "Newsweek" called the film "tasteless, plotless and pointless" in 1978. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 80% based on 41 reviews, with the critical consensus reading ""Rocky Horror Picture Show" brings its quirky characters in tight, but it's the narrative thrust that really drives audiences insane and keeps 'em doing the time warp again". A number of contemporary critics find it compelling and enjoyable because of its offbeat and bizarre qualities; the BBC summarised: "for
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1991), an anthology edited by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Ka'ahumanu which is one of the seminal books in the history of the modern bisexual rights movement. In 1979, Richard O'Brien wrote a projected sequel to the film entitled "Rocky Horror Shows His Heels". This script would have featured the return of all of the characters from the original film, and O'Brien wished to largely use the original production team to make the new film, however Jim Sharman did not wish to revisit the original concept so directly, and Tim Curry did not wish to reprise his role. Instead, in 1981,