The theater darkens. The 20th-Century Fox logo flickers on. Then, two very red lips on a black background fill the screen. The theme music begins and the lips sing, "Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still, but he told us where we stand. And Flash Gordon was there, in silver underwear, Claude Rains was the Invisible Man." You’re immediately drawn in by the tune, the lyrics and the fab falsetto of the singer. The lips continue singing for several verses while the opening credits appear. The theme song, like the movie, is an homage to early science fiction movies, B horror movies, and early rock-n-roll. Soon, people in the audience start wielding strange objects in the theater and talking back to the actors. By now you're starting to wonder: just exactly what did I wander into? "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," of course. When I first saw this film in the mid-1980s it was like nothing else I'd ever seen. I was titillated, shocked, and rapturously seduced! An article by contributing writer Janet Daniels.