![]() Only one or two scenes (the lesbian interlude in particular) seem to have been clumsily inserted into the movie by Tinto Brass and generally the rest of the sex fits the story and adds to the realism of the times, e.g. ![]() Be prepared for acres of heaving flesh throughout the film's course. A film financed in the US by Playboy, made in Italy with a cast of British leads, this was hugely controversial back on its release due to the explicit scenes of sex which litter the production. Here's a historical film that's epic in length, if not in production values. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10 Flawed would-be Roman epic However, how much longer can the Roman Empire tolerate the insane tyrant's uncontrollable mania?-Nick Riganas And as the dangerous megalomaniac Caligula declares himself a god, he begins a four-year reign of depravity and terror, betraying allegiances, destroying virginities, and weeding out the competition through torture and execution. Then, Caligula proclaims Julia Drusilla, his beloved sister and lover, as his equal, much to the disgust of the Roman Senate. And after the murder of the bedridden Tiberius, Caligula becomes the new emperor. With the reign of the frail, syphilis-ridden, and half-mad Emperor Tiberius drawing to a close, Prince Gaius Augustus Germanicus, aka Caligula, arrives at the demented ruler's palace of sin on the island of Capri.
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