Many movies can claim the title “cult classic,” but few have ever embodied that term quite like The Rocky Horror Picture Show. People don’t just watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show, they live it—complete with costumes, props, and very vulgar audience participation. The Rocky Horror Picture Show began as a way to keep an unemployed actor busy. | Evening Standard/GettyImagesWhat would eventually become The Rocky Horror Show, and later The Rocky Horror Picture Show, began as a way for Richard O’Brien “to spend winter evenings” when he wasn’t working as an actor. ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show.’ | United Archives/GettyImagesAccording to Sharman, 20th Century Fox offered him “a reasonable budget” if he would cast “currently fashionable rock stars” in the lead roles for The Rocky Horror Picture Show.