Despite all the gruesomeness, the picture often borders on camp.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 10, 2024

…it doesn’t take a lot of tinkering to ruin a film, and the much-tinkered with 1980 version of Caligula is a mess, with the guts of Vidal’s script removed, replaced by irrelevant sex, then having the sex removed, rendering the result utterly pointless…

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 9, 2024

Too dull and repellent to be a guilty pleasure.

| Original Score: D | Aug 30, 2022

Brass may have thought he was making a movie about "the orgy of power", but it turned out that Guccione wanted a movie about "the power of the orgy".

| Nov 13, 2020

If you want a turn-on, turn-off Caligula. Stay home and read Robert Graves' I, Claudius, it's much sexier.

| Apr 28, 2018

[VIDEO ESSAY] If ever there was a filmic guide to pagan Roman debauchery - real or imagined - "Caligula" is it.

| Original Score: B | Dec 14, 2012

Not so much the culmination of '70s porn-chic cinema as its purposefully degraded last hurrah

| Nov 16, 2009

More infamous for its widespread ineptitude than for its artistic innovation... [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 30, 2009

A classic in the coolest sense of the word

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2008

Sublimely ridiculous thesp-filled porno-togarama.

| Apr 10, 2008

Such established names as John Gielgud and Peter O'Toole will have to be seen to be believed.

| Dec 8, 2007

Unpleasantly violent, often dull, and only intermittently sexy.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 8, 2007

Caligula 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.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Dec 8, 2007

It ended up almost as infamous and notorious as its subject... and that's not a compliment.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Nov 3, 2007

I suppose certain college fraternities could make screening it part of their hazing rituals.

| Original Score: F | Oct 24, 2007

Simply a curiosity, a laughable relic of a failed effort to bring explicit sex movies to the masses.

Full Review | Original Score: 43/100 | Oct 23, 2007

Despite the movie, the highlight of this three-disc set is the often hilarious commentary.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 22, 2007

Excess for excess sake, or just bad taste: Caligula is a messy, bloody film that fails on any level, even as porn and camp.

| Original Score: D- | Oct 15, 2007

All in all it's a dreary shambles.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Oct 9, 2005