The film is actually a decent drama, showing a man who's willing to do anything to take the throne, willing to dispose of trusty friends and allies to retain it, a man whose narcissism and search for pleasure know no bounds, a man totally out of touch with reality and with the people he rules, a man who has left the realm of sanity. There's more to this film that the gratuitous nudity and sex. Yet, while embarrassing to admit, it's not bad. Some of the scenes are pure B-grade exploitation-style to the point of being literal porn, hence the infamy. One of the more notorious films in cinematic history. We see his ambition, his scheming, his perversion and decadence, his brutality and his lunacy and how this impacts the people around him and the empire he leads. A dramatization of the ascent to Caesar and subsequent reign of Caligula, one of the most notorious leaders of ancient Rome.
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