10 Movies Ruined By Glaring Factual Inaccuracies
4. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: The Dates Don't Add Up
Attention to detail is important in filmmaking, particularly when it comes to the depiction of real-life historical events. When you cut corners, no matter how small they might be, there's always some smart-arse on the internet who'll pull you up on it.
This is what happened to The Rocky Horror Picture Show years on from its release. The criminologist who narrates the screwball horror-comedy describes the story as taking place on a "late November evening", but the very next scene contradicts this.
It cuts to Brad and Janet driving in the rain, listening to the radio as they travel. Richard Nixon's resignation speech is what's on the air but, as anyone who knows their history will tell you, he stepped down from office in August of 1974.
Maybe Brad and Janet were passing through some kind of time warp in this scene.