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Inspired by the 1975 B-movie send-up,
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Don't Dream It...Be It! takes guests into the world of Richard O'Brien's cult classic like never before. In this maze, we follow Brad and Janet on their "strange journey" through the world of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, that "sweet transvestite" mad scientist who's obsessed with "the dirty deed", and isn't afraid to show it. We follow along through some of the film's iconic scenes, and even a few of the iconic songs, on a journey that we're sure to remember for a very long time.
Room 1: The Theater
The rockwork of Skull Island transitions nicely into the castle-meets-old-timey-movie-theater exterior of the maze. This is the
O'Brien Theatre, so named after the creator of this cult classic, Richard O'Brien. The film’s iconic lips are depicted in a stained-glass window above the entrance doors. Inside, we find ourselves in an old theater lobby, passing by a decrypt concession stand and cobweb-stained posters. Of course, the posters are for the films mentioned in the film’s opening number, “Science Fiction Double Feature”:
The Day the Earth Stood Still, Flash Gordon, The Invisible Man, King Kong, It Came from Outer Space, Doctor X, Forbidden Planet, Tarantula, Day of the Triffids, Night of the Demon and
When Worlds Collide. After passing through this lobby, we step in through the theater itself, which looks even more abandoned than the lobby. From above in a balcony, we see the Criminologist looking down on us. He tells us we’re about to take “a strange journey”. Hmmm…ominous. We literally “step into the screen”, and find ourselves in…
Room 2: Denton
…Brad and Janet’s hometown of Denton. As we enter, we find Brad and Janet themselves (played by live actors), basking in the afterglow of the Hapschatt wedding…and Brad’s own proposal! Brad and Janet are eager to share the news with passers-by, as dour-faced workers pass by, going in and out of the church.
Room 3: The Forest
"It's true there were dark storm clouds, heavy, black, and pendulous, towards which they were driving. It's true, also, that the spare tire they were carrying was badly in need of some air, but, uh, they being normal kids and, on a night night out... well, they were not going to let a storm spoil the events of their evening, were they?... On a night out... it was a night out they were going to remember... for a very long time."
Suddenly, the sky turns dark and the trees fill our field of vision. Thunder booms overhead as we hear distant cars and motorcycles pass. At the farthest edge of this room is a fence, with a sign on it reading
“Enter at Your Own Risk!” Following the fence, we find ourselves standing at the entrance to “the Frankenstein place”.
Scene 4: Inside the Castle
"And so, it seemed that fortune had smiled on Brad and Janet and that they had found the assistance that their plight required. ...Or had they?"
Upon entering the castle, Riff-Raff, Magenta and Columbia are first to greet us. Brad and Janet, are also there too, having decided to enter this castle to find a phone after their car hit a flat.
Riff Raff: You've arrived on a rather special night. It's one of the master's
affairs.
Janet: Oh, lucky him.
Magenta: You're lucky, he's lucky, I'm lucky, we're all lucky! ha ha ha...
Following this scene, this curious threesome--Riff-Raff, Magenta and Columbia, invite us to come "do the Time Warp again". Following this dance is the arrival of that "Sweet Transvestite" himself, Dr. Frank-N-Furter. After that song, Frank and the Transylvanians exit up to the lab. We linger behind to watch Columbia and Magenta strip Brad and Janet down to their undergarments for reasons that will make no sense.
Janet: Oh! Brad!
Brad: It's all right Janet. We'll play along for now and pull out the aces when the time is right.
Columbia: Oh, slowly, slowly! It's too nice a job to rush.
Brad: Hi, my name is Brad Majors, and this is my fiancee, Janet Weiss; ah.. you are...?
Columbia: You're very lucky to be invited up to Frank's laboratory. Some people would give their right arm for the privilege.
Brad: People like you maybe.
Columbia: Ha! I've seen it.
Riff Raff: Come along - the master doesn't like to be kept waiting.
Magenta: Shift it!
We follow them up into an elevator and arrive at Frank's lab. A red tank sits center-stage. The Transylvanians stand on an inclined plane, watching from above. Brad, Janet and Frank may improvise conversation with guests for a while, but when all is ready, the scene begins...
Frank: Magenta, Columbia - go assist Riff Raff. I will entertain ...uh huh huh...
Brad: Brad Majors. This is my fiancee, Janet "Vice".
Janet: Weiss.
Brad: Weiss? Um.
Frank: Enchante.
Frank: Well! How nice. And what charming underclothes you both have. But here. Put these on. (gives them lab coats) They'll make you feel less... vulnerable. It's not often we receive visitors here, let alone offer them... hospitality.
Brad: Hospitality!? All we wanted to do was to use your telephone, god-d***it, a reasonable request which you've chosen to ignore!
Janet: Brad, don't be ungrateful.
Brad: (flinging off his glasses for emphasis) Ungrateful?!
Frank: How forceful you are, Brad. Such a perfect specimen of manhood. So... dominant. You must be awfully proud of him, Janet.
Janet: Well, yes I am.
Frank: Do you have any tattoos, Brad?
Brad: Certainly not!
Frank: Oh well... how about you?
Janet: No.
Now, we all know this year's event revolves around ol' Freddy Frankenstein (or "Fronk-en-steen" as he prefers to be called), but he's not the only one that can bring the dead back to life! Show 'em, Frankie!
Riff Raff: Everything is in readiness, master. We merely await your... word.
Frank: Tonight, my unconventional conventionists... you are about to witness a new breakthrough in biochemical research... and paradise is to be mine! It was strange the way it happened... suddenly you get a break... whole pieces seem to fit into place, not a sign of being.. what a fool! The answer was there all the time, it took a small accident to make it happen... AN ACCIDENT...
Magenta & Columbia: An accident!
Frank: ..and that's how I discovered the secret, that elusive ingredient, that SPARK that is the breath of life... Yes, I have that knowledge... I hold the secret... to life... itself! You see, you are fortunate for tonight is the night that my beautiful creature is destined to be BORN! Hoopla! ...throw open the switches on the sonic oscillator... and step the reactor power input THREE MORE POINTS!
Janet: Oh, Brad!
Brad: It's all right, Janet!
As Frank yells commands, lights flash and buzz, lightning strikes, colors change, all that good sci-fi stuff. As this is going on, the creature is lifted out of the tank and into the air, hanging on to a device hanging overhead. When the effects cease, Magenta yanks the facial mask off the creature to reveal a handsome blond-haired face. This is Rocky Horror.
As the strains of "The Sword of Damocles" fills our ears, Rocky is set down and fully unbandaged, revealing a smoking hot bod wearing naught but a gold Speedo. The Transylvanians dance to the music, as Rocky sings his woes, as Frank chases after him. Leaving this scene, we pass by a "Deep-Freeze" unit in the lab. Looking in the door's window, we find Eddie, rebellious teenager and ex-delivery boy, jamming out on his sax.
After watching Rocky be brought to life, we pass by two sheets, representing Brad and Janet’s quarters—one lit blue, one lit pink. Keep an ear open as you pass by, you may hear them enjoying something quite… “different”. Leaving this area behind, we find a great number of screens. On them, we see that Rocky has escaped! Soon, we find ourselves back at the lab, where Janet tends to Rocky's wounds.
"Emotion, agitation or disturbance of the mind...Vehement or excited mental state. It is also a powerful and irrational master...and from what Magenta and Columbia eagerly viewed on their television monitor there seemed little doubt that Janet was, indeed, ... its slave."
Suddenly, she decides to seduce the creature, and soon gets her way...she may even seduce a few gentlemen in the group! The revelry is interrupted by Frank-N-Furter and Brad, giving Riff-Raff chase.
Riff Raff: Mercy!!!
Frank: How did it happen? I understood you were to be watching!
Riff Raff: I was only away for a minute...master
Frank: Well, see if you can find him on the monitor.
Riff Raff: Master, master...we have a visitor.
Brad: Hey, Scotty! ...Dr. Everett Scott.
Riff Raff: You know this earthling ...person?
Brad: I most certainly do! He happens to be an old friend of mine.
Frank: I see. So this wasn't simply a chance meeting. You came here with
a purpose.
Brad: I told you, my car broke down. I was telling the truth.
Frank: I know what you told me...but this Dr. Everett Scott, his name is
not unknown to me.
Brad: He was a science teacher at Denton High School.
Frank: And now he works for your government, doesn't he, Brad? He's
attached to the bureau of investigation of that which you call UFO's!
Brad: He might be...I don't know.
Riff Raff: The intruder is entering the building, master.
Frank: Shall we inquire of him in person?
Suddenly, smashing through the walls comes Dr. Everett Scott!
Brad: Great Scott!
Dr. Scott: Frank N Furter, we meet at last.
Brad: Dr. Scott!
Dr. Scott: Brad! What are you doing here?
Frank: Don't play games, Dr. Scott. You know perfectly well what Brad
Majors is doing here. It was part of your plan, was it not? That he and his female should check the layout for you. Well, unfortunately for you, all the plans are to be changed. I am adaptable, Dr. Scot...I know Brad is.
Dr. Scott: I can assure you that Brad's presence here comes as a complete
surprise to me. I came here to find Eddie.
Brad: Eddie! I've seen him!
Frank: Eddie! What do you know of Eddie, Dr. Scott?
Dr. Scott: I happen to know a great deal about a lot of things. You see Eddie happens to be my nephew.
Suddenly, they hear something coming from the bed. Two nude figures stand up, shielded by a blanket. It's Janet and Rocky!
Dr. Scott: Janet!
Janet: Dr. Scott!
Brad: Janet!
Janet: Brad!
Frank: Rocky!
Repeat twice.
Frank: Listen...I made you...and I can break you just as easily.
Magenta: (banging a gong) Master, dinner is prepared!
Frank: Excellent. Under the circumstances, formal dress is to be optional.
We find ourselves descending down a staircase, past the Zen room, and past the dining room...where Frank reveals the secret ingredient of the meal: Eddie's corpse!!! Janet runs out of the room, screaming her head off, with Frank in pursuit. It's back up to the lab we go as Brad and Dr. Scott rush in to confront him, only to find...
Janet: My feet! I can't move my feet!
Scott: My wheels! My God, I can't move my wheels!
Brad: It's as if we're glued to the spot!
Frank: You are! So quake with fear, you tiny fools!
Scott: You won't find Earth people quite the easy mark you imagine. This sonic transducer...it is, I suppose, some kind of audio-vibrato-physio-molecular transport device?
Brad: You mean...
Scott: Yes, Brad, it's something we ourselves have been working on for quite some time. But it seems our friend here has found a means of perfecting it. A device which is capable of breaking down solid matter and then projecting it through space and, who knows, perhaps even time.. itself!
Janet: You mean he's going to send us to another planet?
Frank: Planet, shmanet, Janet!
With a pull of the switch, they freeze, as if they've been turned into statues! Columbia enters, in a rage.
Columbia: My God! I can't stand any more of this! First you spurn me for Eddie, and then you throw him off like an old overcoat for Rocky! You chew people up and then you spit them out again...I loved you..do you hear me? I loved you! And what did it get me? Yeah, I'll tell you: a big nothing. You're like a sponge. You take, take, take, and drain others of their love and emotion. Yeah, well, I've had enough. You're gonna choose between me and Rocky, so named because of the rocks in his head.
Frank turns to Magenta, who pulls the switch. Columbia freezes. Seeing that Rocky has also entered, he once again gestures, and Rocky lives up to his name.
Frank: It's not easy having a good time... even smiling makes my face ache... and my children turn on me...Rocky's behaving just the way that Eddie did. Do you think I made a mistake, splitting his brain between the two of them?
Magenta: Ahhhh! I grow veary of this world! When shall we return to Transylvania, huh?
Frank: Magenta, I am indeed grateful to both you and your brother Riff Raff. You have both served me well. Loyalty such as yours shall not go unrewarded. You will discover that when the mood takes me, I can be quite generous.
Magenta: I ask for nothing...nothing.
Frank: And you shall receive it...in abundance! Come, we are ready for the floor show!
"And so, by some extraordinary co-incidence, fate, it seemed, had
decided that Brad and Janet should keep that appointment with their
friend, Dr. Everett Scott. But it was to be in a situation which
none of them would have possibly foreseen. And, just a few hours
after announcing their engagement, Brad and Janet had both tasted
forbidden fruit. This in itself was proof that their host was a
man of little morals...and some persuasion. What further
indignities were they to be subjected to? And what of the floor
show that is spoken of? In an empty house? In the middle of the
night? What diabolical plan had been shaped by Frank's crazed
imagination? What indeed? From what had gone before, it
was clear that this was to be no picnic."
With that, we're brought into the castle’s ballroom, where Frank, Rocky, Brad, Janet and Columbia are performing a demented floor-show ("Rose Tint My World/Don't Dream It/Wild and Untamed Thing"). However, the celebration is cut-short by Riff Raff and Magenta, who arrive in bizarre space-suits, ready to take sweet revenge.
Brad: You mean...you're going to kill him? What's his crime?
Scott: You saw what became of Eddie. Society must be protected.
Riff Raff: Exactly, Dr. Scott. And now, Frank-N-Furter, your time has come. Say goodbye to all of this, and hello... to oblivion!
Columbia screams, causing a startled Riff-Raff to accidentally shoot her, then he shoots Frank, and brings Rocky down, as well.
Brad: Good God!
Janet: Oh! You killed them!
Magenta: But I thought you liked them. They liked you.
Riff Raff: They didn't like me! He never liked ME!
Scott: You did right.
Riff Raff: A decision had to be made.
Scott: You're O.K. by me.
Riff Raff: Dr. Scott, I'm sorry about your nephew.
Scott: Eddie? Yes, well, perhaps it was all for the best, heh, heh, heh.
Riff: You should all leave now, while it is still possible. We are about to beam the entire house to the planet Transsexual, in the galaxy of Transylvania. Go... Now!
As we exit the castle, we hear a great rumbling…almost as if the castle is being lifted up into the air!
Scene 5: Denouement
We return to the forest, to find Brad and Janet lost...crawling in the dirt. They ask for our help, but we cannot help them now. Dr. Scott sits nearby in his wheelchair, watching...shaking his head. The Crimonologist appears out of the woods, and says...
"And crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race, lost in time, and lost in space and meaning..."
Passing through the forest, we return to the lobby, finally free from the demented world of
The Rocky Horror Picture Show.