How to Organize and Throw a Rocky Horror Picture Show Theme Party

Plan and throw a Rocky Horror Picture Show theme party.

Even though "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" premiered in 1975, fans still have fun dressing as their favorite characters to attend midnight showings of the movie. If you have several offbeat friends that would get a kick out of dressing up as characters from the movie, consider making your next shindig a "Rocky Horror" theme party.

Instructions

1. Make your own party invitations using your home computer and printer. Create the invitation by using an image or collage of images from the movie.

2. Tell all guests they must dress as a "Rocky Horror" character. To ensure you won't have 20 "Dr. Frank-N-Furters" in attendance, you can add character assignments to each invitation, such as "You are Janet" or "You are Magenta." For laughs, pick the guy with the biggest belly to be "Rocky."

3. Decorate the party room like a lab. Use the "slab" as the open bar area.

4. Set up a karaoke machine with songs from "Rocky Horror." Have each character sing his or her song from the movie. Spread this out throughout the evening, so not everyone sings one right after the other.

5. A few times throughout the evening, at random intervals, turn up the sound system and blast "The Time Warp," so everyone can do the dance together.

6. Have the movie running on a repetitive loop on as many TV screens as you can. Have them playing on "mute," so everyone can enjoy conversation and the music you're playing.

7. Begin or end the party by attending a showing of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" together if it's playing at your local theater.