The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Jim Sharman's film adapts Richard O'Brien's stage musical with much of its London cast, including O'Brien and Tim Curry as Frank-N-Furter: Brad and Janet, stranded in a storm, stumble into a castle of aliens and a man built in a laboratory. It became the longest-running release in film history as a midnight show.

Dr Frank-N-Furter's name and his central act come from Frankenstein: in his laboratory he builds a man, Rocky, and brings him to life on the night the story takes place. MEDIUM, because the film parodies horror and science-fiction films generally, and its Frankenstein material comes mostly through the Universal films rather than from Shelley's novel.