
Pagan Rome, 37 A.D. With the reign of the frail, syphilis-ridden, half-mad Emperor Tiberius coming to an end, Prince Gaius Augustus Germanicus, aka Caligula, is summoned to the demented ruler's palace of sin on the island of Capri. After the murder of bedridden Tiberius, Caligula is proclaimed the new emperor, who, in turn, proclaims his beloved sister and lover, Julia Drusilla, as his equal, much to the disgust of the Roman Senate. Now, as a four-year reign of depravity and ... (Full plot summary below)
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Pagan Rome, 37 A.D. With the reign of the frail, syphilis-ridden, half-mad Emperor Tiberius coming to an end, Prince Gaius Augustus Germanicus, aka Caligula, is summoned to the demented ruler's palace of sin on the island of Capri. After the murder of bedridden Tiberius, Caligula is proclaimed the new emperor, who, in turn, proclaims his beloved sister and lover, Julia Drusilla, as his equal, much to the disgust of the Roman Senate. Now, as a four-year reign of depravity and terror commences, allegiances turn into betrayal, virginities are destroyed, torture and execution weed out the competition, and dangerously megalomaniac Caligula declares himself a god. Can the Roman Empire tolerate the uncontrollable mania of the insane tyrant?
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| ColeSmithey.comCole Smithey[VIDEO ESSAY] If ever there was a filmic guide to pagan Roman debauchery - real or imagined - "Caligula" is it. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxI suppose certain college fraternities could make screening it part of their hazing rituals. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyExcess for excess sake, or just bad taste: Caligula is a messy, bloody film that fails on any level, even as porn and camp. |
| Boston GlobeMichael BlowenIf you want a turn-on, turn-off Caligula. Stay home and read Robert Graves' I, Claudius, it's much sexier. |
| MovieholeClint MorrisA classic in the coolest sense of the word |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceNot so much the culmination of '70s porn-chic cinema as its purposefully degraded last hurrah |
| Apollo GuideBrian WebsterSimply a curiosity, a laughable relic of a failed effort to bring explicit sex movies to the masses. |
| Bullz-Eye.comWill HarrisIt ended up almost as infamous and notorious as its subject... and that's not a compliment. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonFor sheer camp RBI, this Tinto Brass-Bob Guccione freak is the World Series played, won, and paraded. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertCaligula is sickening, utterly worthless, shameful trash. If it is not the worst film I have ever seen, that makes it all the more shameful: People with talent allowed themselves to participate in this travesty. |