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After this, the sources focus upon his cruelty, sadism, extravagance, and sexual perversion, presenting him as an insane.

The film looks more like a glossy 1970s magazine spread of beautiful people or architecture than your typical titillating exploitation fare.

What we're left with, then, is a slickly-made trash pic with high production values, a good cast, and an insufferably drawn-out story I challenge anyone to still give a damn by the time the film reaches its 'revelatory' crescendo ; Brass's attempts at prurient titillation, an underdeveloped and ultimately pointless romantic subplot, and the fearless courage of icily unlikable prostitute Margherita Teresa Ann Savoy fall completely flat, much to the film's detriment.

' 1984 track "" references the emperor with the following line: "What she asked of me at the end of the day, Caligula would have blushed".

The purely supreme cast is more than likely the only thing keeping the film from being well and truly buried in a basement.

" But it has all sorts of dangers.

He expanded the imperial palace.

Wherever you look, men and women, often in jarringly different film stock, are performing every permutation of straight or gay sex, or vigorously masturbating to issue like glassy-eyed clockwork monkeys.

Philo of Alexandria, Josephus and Seneca state that Caligula was insane, but describe this madness as a personality trait that came through experience.