Product Description Before Rome. Before Gladiator. The most controversial film of all time as you've never experienced it before! Combining lavish spectacle and top award-winning stars, this landmark production was shrouded in secrecy since its first day of filming. Now, this unprecedented special edition presents a bolder and more revealing Caligula than ever before, with a beautiful new high-definition transfer from recently uncovered negative elements and hours of never-before-seen bonus material! From the moment he ascends to the throne as Emperor, Caligula enforces a reign like no other as power and corruption transform him into a deranged beast whose deeds still live on as some of the most depraved in history. Malcolm McDowell (NBC's top-rated Heroes, Rob Zombie's Halloween, A Clockwork Orange, Time After Time, If..., Cat People and O Lucky Man), Helen Mirren: 2007 Academy Award & Golden Globe Winner for The Queen; 2007 Emmy & Golden Globe winner for HBO's Elizabeth I; star of hit TV series Prime Suspect and films including National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Calendar Girls, Excalibur, The Mosquito Coast, and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover), Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, The Ruling Class, My Favorite Year, Venus, The Stunt Man), John Gielgud (Gandhi, The Elephant Man, Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent, and Academy Award-winning role in Arthur). Supporting cast includes a wide array of European cult actors including Teresa Ann Savoy (Salon Kitty), John Steiner (Mario Bava's Shock), Leopoldo Trieste (Cinema Paradiso), Mirella D'Angelo (Tenebrae), Paolo Bonacelli (Mission: Impossible III) and Adriana Asti (The Best of Youth). - Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Audience Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
- Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language (Original Language): English
- Region Code: 1
- Release Date: 2007-10-02
- Running Time: 156 minutes
- Theatrical Release Date: 1980-02-15
Customer ReviewsReviewed on 2008-05-16 
Ignore the close minded...
This is an amazing movie. There is nothing like it and I doubt there ever will be. It is pure entertainment from start to finish and yes, it has pornographic scenes. Guess what. So does life. Especially if that life is taking place in ancient Rome, a time and place known for excess and indulgence. The cast is spectacular, the sets monumental (be sure to watch the special features) and the script chock full of quotable lines.
This movie has been bashed since day one, but if you watch this with an open mind and a yearning for big screen style entertainment, you won't be disappointed. |  | Reviewed on 2008-05-04 
Sex, Sex, Sex & More Sex!
In every scene there is sex! This a movie without a plot, without a logical string. It a movie??? that tries to portrait the crazy life of Caligula. The movie is a portrait of total madness and inhumane attitudes a God-King or King-God. As a fan of the historic period, not one of my favorites but a must be seen. Is up to you if you want to see it! You have been warned! | | Reviewed on 2008-04-29
Caligula
This is a major production with good cinematic values. Story drags a little, but overall is compelling. | | Reviewed on 2008-04-28
Very good
It has everything you could ask for and more. It even has lots of real sex, I highly recommend it. | | Reviewed on 2008-04-27
Repellant Masterpiece
"Little Boots" Caligula, masterfully portrayed by Malcolm McDowell ("A Clockwork Orange"), easily the most degenerate, morally corrupt of all the Ceasars, including the infamous Nero, invites you into his sexually seething, opulently gore-filled palace to witness his uncontolled hubris as he ascends to the "throne" of what was once the Republic of Rome.
Vicious, paranoid, petulant, flippant, Caligula destroys all boundaries of morality in his unbridled lust to become a god. Peter O'Toole and Sir John Gielgud add dramatic gravity in short but well-crafted roles as roadblocks in the path of monomania.
This film is definitely not for younger viewers nor persons who object to pornography, demonstrating as it does the broadest range of sexual activity one is likely to see in a film intended for the general public.
For all of that, the lavish sexuality of the film is essential to the depiction of scene and theme, and though ever-present, it is only occasionally gratuitous. This film must rate as the finest film ever made to contain pornography, stylistically, contextually, and thematically.
Despite the visuals, or sometimes because of them, "Caligula" is indisputably a morality play for our time. It is repellant and reassuring, and, ultmately, a near-masterpiece of fine art.
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