Caligula

Land sakes!!! They don't make films like this anymore...and that's a dirty rotten shame! =)

Walk through a Bosch painting and marvel at the excesses and debauchery. Critics don't take this seriously because a porn producer snipped it up and inserted his own scenes. It is what it is. A near masterpiece.

A distinguished international cast; a screenplay by Gore Vidal; respected, award-winning talent behind the scenes; and millions of dollars at its disposal. What could possibly go wrong? Where would you like to start? CALIGULA (1979) had so much potential. I'd like to think that there's another universe where Vidal's mu…

Now I'll be honest, I think John Hurt ("I Claudius" - BBC - 1976) made a better Caligula, but Malcolm McDowell is still pretty convincing as the despotic sexual deviant who held the ultimate power in the Roman Empire for four years. It ought not to have been a surprise that he turned out the way he did when we are intr…

**Vanity and depravity** Pagan Rome, 37 AD. As the reign of the fragile, decrepit, and half-mad Emperor Tiberius nears its end, Prince Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, also known as Caligula, arrives at the ruler's palace of sin on the island of Capri. Following the murder of the bedridden Tiberius, Caligula…