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.
Costume
Laverne Cox's wardrobe deserved a better script
Production
TV budget trying to cosplay theatrical excess
Acting
Annaleigh Ashford actually gets the bit
Director
Kenny Ortega
Laverne Cox
Dr. Frank-N-Furter
Victoria Justice
Janet Weiss
Ryan McCartan
Brad Majors
Annaleigh Ashford
Columbia
Adam Lambert
Eddie
Reeve Carney
Riff Raff
Christina Milian
Magenta
Staz Nair
Rocky
Ivy Levan
The Usherette
Ben Vereen
Dr. Scott
Tim Curry
The Narrator/Criminologist
Kelly Van der Burg
Betty
Jeff Lillico
Ralph
Sal Piro
Photographer
Jayne Eastwood
Butler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kenny Ortega directed both this AND Hocus Pocus 2, making him the unofficial king of belated cult property revivals nobody asked for.
The 'filmed theater' approach deliberately mimicked the original's stage roots, but Fox's broadcast constraints neutered the transgressive chaos that made 1975 revolutionary.
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