Rocky Horror Picture Show returns to cinemas to celebrate 40th anniversary

Richard O’Brien’s sinfully twisted salute to horror, sci-fi, B-movies and rock music, starring former Lymm High School pupil Tim Curry, will be shown at the Odeon in Westbrook next Wednesday at 7.30pm.

The special screening will also include a video link to Tim in Los Angeles and a live audience Q and A with his co-stars Patricia Quinn and Nell Campbell.

Director Jim Sharman’s classic follows newlyweds Janet (Susan Sarandon) and Brad (Barry Bostwick) as they find themselves with a flat tyre on a darkened street in the rain.

When Dr Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a 'sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania', offers the pair shelter in his mansion, they discover a host of wild eccentrics in residence.

Among the host of outrageous characters are a rocking biker (Meat Loaf), unsettling butler Riff Raff (Richard O’Brien) and his outlandish sister Magenta (Patricia Quinn).

Former Grappenhall resident Tim Curry, who received The Actors Fund Lifetime Achievement Award this year, paid tribute to Rocky Horror fans.

"Forty years we have been running, and it’s all your fault," he said.

"Your energy and enthusiasm has kept this movie alive for 40 – count them – years."

Patricia added: "It’s extraordinary how this film has evolved. Forty years on, and it’s the longest running film in cinema history. And the reason for that? It’s because we never left the cinemas."

Based on Richard O’ Brien’s West End and Broadway hit stage musical, The Rocky Horror Picture Show quickly established itself as one of the most popular cult films of all time following its release in 1975.

It has has been translated into more than 20 languages and is renowned for its audience participation with legions of fishnet-wearing fans singing along and shouting the lines back at the screen.

- Ready to do the Time Warp again? The Rocky Horror Picture Show will be screened at the Odeon in Westbrook next Wednesday at 7.30pm. For tickets visit odeon.co.uk/warrington