Performances by the main cast are simply splendid - Malcolm McDowell, Peter O' Toole and Helen Mirren all shine throughout. All the hallmarks of a cinema classic packed to the guddles with perversion, decadence and graphic violence. This ain't horror I hear you cry - but how wrong you would be.Ī film of epic proportions (filmed in Italy back in the 70's), Caligula comes across like Ben Hur for the criminally insane. Caligula (for those that don't know) follows the dizzying rise to power of Caligula as Emperor of Imperial Rome.
