Caligola (1979)

Salon Kitty (1976)

 

 

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official, who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself.

Under the pretense of saying something about the Nazi regime this film is mainly a high-profile exploitation flick dwelling more on its sex scenes than on any discernible message.
 

Halliwell (no star): "A voyeuristic movie with a gloating nastiness about it that is thoroughly dislikable."

 

 

 

 

Caligola (1979)

The story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.

From memory: messy and nasty big-budget exploitation sword-and-sandal epic is quite disagreeable entertainment, but interesting for its audacity and the amount of first-rate stars that risked their reputation by participating.

Halliwell (no star): "What would have been a dull and worthless pseudo-epic has been perked up by violence and hardcore sex. The result is a vile curiosity of interest chiefly to sado-masochists."

Maltin*1/2: "Chutzpah and 6m.of not-bad hard-core footage earn this half a star for the faithful, but most viewers  will be rightfully repelled."