One of the Most Controversial Movies in History Is Returning to Theaters in a New Cut
No history of troubled big-budget movies is complete without the story of 1979’s Caligula, which was commissioned by Penthouse Magazine as an attempt to combine serious adult filmmaking with seriously adult sex scenes. In the end, both its director (Tinto Brass) and its writer (Gore Vidal) demanded their names be taken off the film, after Penthouse’s Bob Guccione inserted all sorts of additional explicit material that was never originally intended to be included in the film. In spite of the turmoil (or maybe because the turmoil got a lot of attention, and actually created some hype around the ...