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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

1975 · directed by Jim Sharman · 99 min
26,803 feet · Prominence
118th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredThe 118th highest film on the mountain, and The Rewatchables has never done it.

How this film scores

Draw79

Lifetime worldwide gross $171m, re-releases included; about $1.05bn in 2026 money.

Rank170 of 11,051In 19752 of 43

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise73

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics73 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy85

Judged directly: The definitive participatory cult film, fifty years.

Verdict85 of 100IMDb7.4 from 182kWikipedia149k views a monthAge51 years

On the listsNational Film Registryevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 70 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 79 praise 73 legacy 85averages 79, placing it at26,803 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Richard O'Brien

In these careers — elevation for this film

Tim Curry20,828 ftSusan Sarandon19,386 ftRichard O'Brien18,477 ftBarry Bostwick18,448 ftMeat Loaf17,648 ftCharles Gray17,638 ft