Caligula (1979) (The Imperial Edition)

[demoni]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

I think its perhaps the worst film I've ever seen. It's on par with Manos: The Hands of Fate in the sheer ugliness at its core, and the parade of pointless sadism is a desperate attempt to hide the fact the film has no real story. Its just a mishmash of improvised scenes with random brutality and degradation. Now, knowing Guccione was a producer on the film, you'd think walking in that its a glorified porn film.

Hardly. The "sex scenes" in this film, if they can be called that, are often as brutal and stomach-turning as the vilolence.

In other words, this is a film so awful and so rotten in its depiction of humanity, that it makes the porn industry look as virtuous as The Sound of Music.

It's statements like these that really sell these kind of movies. If I had never seen the movie and read what you wrote, I would most definitely have bought this one.