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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

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• The film was originally released in 1975 with mono sound. When the stereo VHS video was released in 1990, the soundtrack album versions of the songs were dubbed into the film, replacing the mono versions. The vocals on all the original mono film songs differ slightly from the stereo album takes, most notably on Rocky's parts. Peter Hinwood did not do any of his own singing for the album or film. On the initial soundtrack album sessions, recorded at Olympic Studios, producer Richard Hartley used an unnamed session singer for Rocky's vocals. His voice is heard on the soundtrack album during "Rose Tint My World," and Hinwood mimed to his vocals while filming at Bray Studios. When the film was being edited, director Jim Sharman decided to change Rocky's voice, and actor-singer Trevor White was used. White re-recorded all of Rocky's songs and vocal noises during post-production at EMI-Elstree Studios, and it is his voice which is heard on the original English mono film sound. The DVD sound options include a new 5.1 surround mix, the original English mono soundtrack, and a commentary track by Richard O'Brien and Patricia Quinn.
  
  
• The 2000 two-disc DVD includes the complete "Superheroes" and the original English mono film sound (with Trevor White as Rocky's vocals), a 5.1 Surround mix enhanced from the mono sound, a commentary track by 'Richard O'Brien (I)' and Patricia Quinn, and an "audience participation" track as sound options. The two-disc set also includes: a 1995 36-minute documentary; VH1 interviews with O'Brien, Quinn, Meat Loaf, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick; deleted "Once in a While" song; outtakes; TV and theatrical trailers; alternate endings and more (the DVD single disc was released in 2002 without the extras).
  
  
• The US DVD release of the film contains the original mono track (and a 5.1 remix of the original mono track) instead of the stereo track that has been with the film since 1990. The DVD has three cuts of the film:
  • The US cut: this cut doesn't include "Superheroes" but adds the song "Once in a While" as an outtake.
  • The UK cut: this cut features "Superheroes".
  • A 'Conceptual Version', which is an easter egg on the DVD: it has everything up to "The Time Warp" in black and white.
  
  
  
• In the 21st Anniversary VHS Version of the movie, the song "There's A Light Over At The Frankenstein Place" is different from that of the 25th Anniversary DVD box set. The backing singers in the VHS version are amplified and Brad's voice is muted. Also, Rocky's actual voice is used in "Rose Tints My World" and Brad sings it differently.
  
  
• The version of Science Fiction, Reprise at the end of the British DVD release is a different version from other releases. Presumably re-recorded by Richard O'Brien, if you have a trained ear, the subtle differences are there.
  
  
• The original American VHS release (1990) contained the entire "Super Heroes" sequence, as well as the "Science Fiction Double Feature" song over the end credits (plus a mini-documentary following the movie). Later U.S. VHS releases, including the 1999 "special edition," omit the beginning of "Super Heroes". Tacked on to the end of the special edition as scenes allegedly cut from the final print is the full "Super Heroes" sequence, along with the never-included-in-any-version "Once in A While" song scene.
  
  
• USA video reissue, released in September 1998, includes both additional musical numbers "Superheroes" and "Once in a While".
  
  
• The 1987 Japanese video release features the original mono soundtrack with "Superheroes" and Science Fiction Double Feature Reprise. All the sound effects are present as opposed to the current release in the US with sound effects missing due to the overdubbing of the studio soundtracks.
  
  
• UK "collector's edition" video cassette features outtake footage, including a musical number with the new song "Once in a while".
  
  
• An alternate version has longer "Superheroes" song (1 more verse) and closes with Science Fiction Double Feature Reprise with normal credits as opposed to Time Warp reprise with photo credits.
  
  
• American original video release cuts the song "Superheros."
  
  
• The original script had shots of Janet saying lines of dialogue in between the verses of the song "Once In A While" (which was subsequently cut altogether, but then re-included in the special edition release). Pauses in between verses of the song are purposely there so the dialogue could be easily added.
  
  
• In the version shown on VH1, Rocky Horror's real voice is heard during "Rose Tint My World", the nude statues and Columbia's breasts were blurred, and a line in "Wise Up, Janet Weiss" where Frank-N-Further says "mind-f**k" is deleted.
  
  
• All VHS versions have a recording of "The Time Warp Part 3" instrumental that is different from the theatrical and DVD version of the song during the end credits. In the normal version the song ends with the sound of a tape slowing down. In the VHS version the song ends with a saxophone flourish. This was presumably done so that VHS consumers would not think that something was wrong with their tapes.
  
  
• After the opening credit "TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX PRESENTS", British film prints and video include the credit "A MICHAEL WHITE-LOU ADLER PRODUCTION". In the American prints and video, the credit reads: "A LOU ADLER-MICHAEL WHITE PRODUCTION".
  
  
• On the Japanese laser disc version, Rocky's real voice (Trevor White) is heard while singing "The Floor Show" and Eddie's death is completely cut out to make it look as if he got knocked out.
  
  
• 1990 USA VHS video includes the edited "Superheroes" and the stereo soundtrack album songs dubbed into the film, replacing the original mono versions, which had different vocals. Rocky's part is noticeably different, since a session singer was used for his vocals on the soundtrack album. Peter Hinwood mimed to his version while filming, then Trevor White re-dubbed Rocky's songs during editing for the film's original mono sound. The video also includes an audience prologue and "Time Warp" music video using footage mostly taken at the 10th Anniversary Party in New York in 1985.
  
  
• USA theatrical version includes: Opening credit- A LOU ADLER-MICHAEL WHITE PRODUCTION; edited "Superheroes" song without Brad and Janet's verses (Criminologist's final verse is left in); picture credits showing cast with edited vocal "Time Warp" on audio. (The ending was re-edited to make the film more "upbeat.")
  
  
• UK theatrical version includes: Opening credit- A MICHAEL WHITE-LOU ADLER PRODUCTION; complete "Superheroes" song; short end credits without cast pictures and "Science Fiction-Double Feature: Reprise" followed by instrumental "Time Warp." (The instrumental "Time Warp" was always played during cast bows in the play.)
  
  

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