Without the extra sex that made writer Gore Vidal want his credit removed, Tinto Brass’s epic of imperial eroticism showcases a powerhouse Malcolm McDowell
Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/AlamyPhotograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamyere it is, in all its seedy absurdity and shame-filled grandeur, the controversial 1979 Romesploitation shocker Caligula, originally released towards the end of the movies’ porn-chic period. It is about the rise and fall of obscene tyrant Caligula, the Roman emperor who married his sister and ennobled his horse, extravagantly played by.
Leaving in the spurious porn might actually have added to the film’s time-capsule value. You have to imagine yourself watching it in the huge, echoingly empty Empire cinema in London’s Leicester Square in 1980 among a matinee-scattering of filth enthusiasts disappointed and irritated by its relative tameness.
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