Caligula (Unrated Twentieth Anniversary Edition)
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Actor: Helen Mirren, John Steiner, Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Teresa Ann SavoyDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 156 minutes
Published: 1999
DVD Release Date: 1999-11-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product features:
- Twentieth Anniversary Edition
- Digitally Remastered & Fully Restored
Movie Reviews of Caligula (Unrated Twentieth Anniversary Edition)
Movie Review: Hail Caesar!
Summary: 5 Stars
"I have existed since the beginning of the world, and shall exist until the last star falls out of the heavens. Although I have taken the form of Caius Caligula, I Am all men, as I Am no man. I Am a God." - Caligula Caesar.
Those words could just have easily been spoken by Lucifer, the ultimate prideful rebel. And in effect, by proxy, they were. as the Satanic spirit is repleat throughout this figure. They were spoken by the namesake of this magnificent historical erotic docu-drama. The original intent of this production was to present the most accurate and realistic portrayal of the events under the Caligulan reign.
There is plenty of fair warning in the beginning, that the subject mater may offend and disturb, so no-one need complain about subjecting themselves to the utterly opulent decadence herein. Truly, Rome in all of its glory. Much controversy has followed this film ever since its pre-production, filmed on location in Rome, Italy. Rumors, of orgies, incest, bestiality, extreme cruelty, blood and gore, followed this film since the start - all of which is most assuredly does contain.
The DVD includes a revealing "making of" documentary, which proves to be of great interest with the forboding narrator, with interview inclusions of Bob Guccione {Penthouse publisher and iconoclast, whose scrumptuous 'pets' adorn the film throughout}. Sir John Gielgood {a classic actor of the first callibre}, Peter O'Toole {elite actor who plays Caesar Tiberius}, among others. Here and there, one notices some excised scenes previously unavailable in the widely released form, as it may have proved too extreme for American censors of the time, although I Am sure the European release included them in full.
The cinematography remains some of the best this writer has seen, before its time in the forthcoming Daemonocracy, as The Age of Fire enters the next phase, films rated "X" would be presented in the same theatres as those with an "R" or "PG" rating, with proper documentation submitted by individuals for their viewing. The sets are marvellous, displaying veritable temples of the flesh for the indulgent rewards of those who enter its chambers.
Kettle drums slowly pound monotonously within the echoing halls of pleasure and ecstasy, joined with a chorus of blissful moans and beautifully undulating bodies, amidst the sweet scents of exotic incenses , all under the lustful gaze of Neptune, Venus, and others gods and goddesses of the Roman pantheon. Deja-Vu, to be sure.
Caesar Tiberius must choose a successor. He invites young and naive Caligula to the palace, where he is introduced to some of the elements of betrayal and deceit, and witnesses a justified evisceration as the result of one guard's improper enebriation.
The Palace is filled with beauty in both the occupants and their surroundings. Adorned in horned helmets, satyres thrust into eager nymphs who hungrily take the phallii deep into themselves, filled with pleasure. They swing around upon ornate, vine-decorated wreath-like swings, happily straddling phallic attachments in lascivious rapport.
Caligula strikes a deal with his right-hand man at the time, named Magnus, a Roman soldier, to kill Tiberius and take the throne. Tiberius is subsequently strangled, and Caligula comes into possession of The Emperor's Ring, which he wields with pride and power. Caligula rises to rulership, together with his sister and lover, becoming increasingly more imbalanced, self-destructively, excessively selfish, and indiscriminate in his proclamations. One telling moment was when he spied a virginal couple attending one of his arena events - this one, a remarkable spectacle which employs an elaborate wall-like beheading apparatus, which swings its propeller-like blades along the ground, where prisoners have been buried up to their necks, then razed in decapitation. Caligula wonders if the girl is really a virgin. He commands them to come to him in his secret chambres, where he taunts the man, a soldier, by the way, and devirginizes his fiancé' before his traumatized eyes. In a surprising twist, he commands the man to bend over, wherein he thrusts his fist, ring and all - into his rectum. - he no longer is a "virgin" either. He is later slowly stabbed to death and urinated upon in an effort to divulge the sensation of dying, as Caligula attempted to find out, with Sir John Gielgood's character earlier on, whom he drowned when he determined he was lying.
In another scene, youths masturbate into golden bowls providing a facial for a noblewoman. A veritable protein-filled youth lotion which is the progeneration of life.
One night, Caligula decides to sleep with a horse. It is rather humorous, as the next scene shows them in bed together, sans a cigarette!
In still another scene, Caligula dons the ceremonial vestments of the Priestesses of Isis, and mingles in with them in the chamber of a sacred pool, where he selects the most promiscuous woman in the kingdom to be his wife {probably as a test to see if she will remain faithful}, who subsequently births his heir, a daughter, whom he insists on calling his son {as such the importance placed on male heirs at the time}. Eventually, Caligula goes insane upon the death of his sister / lover from the fever, which is the turning point to more of his crueller exploits, including hosting an orgy which includes the Senate's {the so-called "natural enemy of the Emperor"} wives and sons, which I believe is what eventually does him in. Also, in his terrible grief, he temporarily lowers himself to the level of the peasants, roaming incognito amongst them, becoming enraged when when he witnesses a troupe of acrobats mocking he and his wife through effigy, thus disrupting their sacrilegious display, which lands him in a filthy jail, wherein he develops a strange affinity for the common folk therein. Upon his return to The Throne, he has the acrobats arrested and executed.
In the end, the tyrannical Caligula is assassinated in Egypt by one of his own Generals, as seems to the typical modus-operandi of the Caesars.
Overall, Caligula is a remarkable piece of underground paganography that has to be seen to be believed, and therefore, appreciated.
Summary of Caligula (Unrated Twentieth Anniversary Edition)
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