Caligula (1979) (The Imperial Edition)

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by Blove23

I was thinking about adding "Caligula" to my collection.I just wanted to know everyone's thoughts on this movie. I know its not going to be the best PQ because the movie was filmed in 1979. I just wanted to get some insight from those who are true movie watchers! Rumor has it Malcolm McDowell is pretty insane in this film!

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.