Caligula
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Oct 26, 2026
Mike O'MearaHOST
not
Robb SpewakHOST
Caligula.
Robb SpewakHOST
You've already seen that.
Robb SpewakHOST
And that's not a TV show.
Robb SpewakHOST
I
Mike O'MearaHOST
love Caligula.
Mike O'MearaHOST
Mike, that's not a TV show.
Mike O'MearaHOST
I love the sex scene in Caligula.
Rachel WaltherCORRESPONDENT
It's grimy and campy and just relentlessly grim.
Rachel WaltherCORRESPONDENT
I was asking myself while watching, why has this film remained unavailable all these years when many other movies that are way more explicit, like Tinto Brass' Caligula, came out decades ago in a splashy DVD box set? And I think the answer lies in the fact that by the end of the film, the madness in The Devils is in no way gratuitous.
Rachel WaltherCORRESPONDENT
Russell's message about the evil forces that control our world remains as prescient as ever.
Rachel WaltherCORRESPONDENT
While Caligula is just bawdy crap, the devil's remains dangerous, and it's unforgettable.
Rachel WaltherCORRESPONDENT
I'm so glad that it's seen the light of day, finally, and I'm really glad that, hopefully, I can stop talking about it and hearing about it once and for all.
Rachel WaltherCORRESPONDENT
Thank you.
Jon BusdekerHOST
Like
Brendan O'ConnorHOST
Caligula sexy things? Like they hurt each other?
Jon BusdekerHOST
I've never seen Caligula.
Jon BusdekerHOST
That is a crazy
Brendan O'ConnorHOST
movie.
Lily AlleyHOST
And for those of you who don't know what the combat zone was in Boston, we'll just say it's not where the nice girls went, okay? They had adult theaters and, you know, you get the picture.
Lily AlleyHOST
Well, the movie Caligula had come out and I was really into Latin as a kid.
Lily AlleyHOST
I did five years of it.
Lily AlleyHOST
And so I wanted to go see Caligula.
Lily AlleyHOST
So of course it was rated.
Lily AlleyHOST
I can't remember if it came out as an X or an R, but I got one of my guy friends to take me and we went to the Saxon and it was the saddest theater you can imagine.
CraigHOST
Like at the time without the use of the internet.
CraigHOST
And I like to think he's not Julius Caesar, but he's Caligula.
CraigHOST
That's very possible.
CraigHOST
Yeah.
EricHOST
We're one step...
EricHOST
Like, with The Devils now down, you could feasibly see a Caligula re-release-
CharlieHOST
Oh, boy
EricHOST
...
EricHOST
in theaters.
CharlieHOST
Sure.
EricHOST
And once Caligula's out there, like, doors are open.
CharlieHOST
The rules are out the window.
Dave ParkerHOST
But, you know, by this time, we had, like, Ilsa in '75, the Canadian, uh, exploitation picture, and by '76, '77, there was a slew of these movies, and Salon Kitty or Salon Kitty was one of the first big ones.
Dave ParkerHOST
And Tinto Brass had later done, uh, Caligula and stuff like that, and he would do tons and tons of movies like Cheeky, cult movies, a lot of sex, a lot of exploitation, that kind of nature.
Dave ParkerHOST
And you'll, like, see a Tinto Brass movie, you know it's Tinto Brass because the amount of asses in here.
Dave ParkerHOST
But, uh, Salon Kitty was a good one, and it's equally, like they say on the back, equally artful, equally exploitative, and this is totally exploitative.
Dave ParkerHOST
He looks cold and mean, but he's also incredibly pretty.
Dave ParkerHOST
And this one, he fits perfect as a Nazi.
Dave ParkerHOST
His, his guy who's actually in charge of him is John Steiner, also a perfect Nazi to say, of course, from stuff like Tenebrae and Caligula and, um, Goodbye and Amen, just a million movies, just a fantastic actor as well, um, I believe a British actor.
Dave ParkerHOST
[coughs]Um, he's in everything, if you guys, he's in so many movies, Shock and, but, um, so essentially what happens is this movie focuses on, on this place ran by this, uh, this like kind of a, I guess you'd call her like a pimp.
JimmyHOST
That film would define the rest of her life, and not in the way anyone intended.
JimmyHOST
Guccione's project was Caligula, and on paper it was the most ambitious thing a men's magazine publisher had ever attempted.
JimmyHOST
It had a screenplay by Gore Vidal, direction by the Italian filmmaker Tinto Brass, and a cast that included Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, and more A-listers.
JimmyHOST
Shooting took place in Rome in 1976, and the budget ballooned past anything a film like this had any business costing.
JimmyHOST
Di Lorenzo was cast as Messalina, a supporting role Guccione handed her personally.
JimmyHOST
She was the publisher's girlfriend in her early 20s, sharing a set with truly legendary actors.
JimmyHOST
But here's the thing about Caligula.
JimmyHOST
Guccione wasn't satisfied with Brass' footage.
Jenn de la VegaHOST
But I can recognize him anywhere.
Jenn de la VegaHOST
And Peter O'Toole? Like, Caligula? That Peter O'Toole? What a cast.
Clara ParkHOST
Something that caught my eye is that the film composer is Michael Giacchino.
Clara ParkHOST
He also did the films Up, Coco, some Star Treks, Jurassic Park, and one of my TV favorites, Alias.
speaker_21NARRATOR
Yeah, yeah.
John Clay WolfeHOST
Helen Mirren didn't need to get naked in Caligula.
speaker_17CORRESPONDENT
Stop.
speaker_17CORRESPONDENT
No.
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