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░▒▓█ Caligula.and.Messalina.1982.DVDRip.XviD-STR █▓▒░
Ripper ...........: DxaKrator DVD Retail Date ..: ?
Release Date .....: 05/05/08 Video Bitrate ....: 1789 kbps
Video Format .....: XviD Resolution .......: 640x272
Aspect Ratio .....: 2.353 Audio Bitrate ....: 128 Kbps
Audio Format .....: MP3 Frame Rate .......: 25.000 fps
Runtime ..........: 1:48:10 Subtitle(s) ......: None
B-VOP, Q-Pel, GMC.: Y, N, N
Language .........: English
Film Genre .......: Sexploitation IMDb Score .......: 3.7/10
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0083710/
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One of several films following the release of Tinto Brass' unbelievable
'Caligula', 'Caligula and Messalina' stars John Turner this time as the
deranged Roman Emperor, who is having an affair with his sister, makes his
beloved horse a Senate and gruesomely tortures conspirators to death. His
other lover Agrippina wants her son Nero to eventually become Emperor -
and starts plotting his death. Meanwhile, Messalina (played by the sexy
Betty Roland) is also plotting away with her Mother, in order to become
Empress of Rome, and brings herself to Caligula's attention as a gladiator.
Caligula falls in love with Messalina, who Agrippina describes as "a cheap
little trollop", but when she over hears a new plot to get rid of the
deranged Emperor, she sets her lustful sights on Claudius instead, the next
in line to rule. With Caligula dead and Claudius in power, Messalina becomes
Empress and starts sleeping with everyone in Rome, including Salvatore
Boccaro, aka Sal Boris, the pubic hair munching caged sex machine from
'SS Hell Camp' and other Italian exploitation classicks (e.g. 'Salon Kitty').
Messalina gets all excited at the sight of this grotesque looking tubby man:
"Quickly, I'm anxious to hoist your mast and sail to paradise!" she says,
before Sal jumps on top of her...still wearing his sandals and socks! What
a guy! Agrippina meanwhile is still plotting away, in order to become
Empress of Rome herself, and when Messalina meets up with her child hood
sweet heart things start leading to a predictably unhappy (well, for
Messalina, anyway) and gruesome climax. Not nearly as sexually graphic or
violent as either the original 'Caligula' or D'Amato's film, this is strictly
soft core all the way - bar two scenes involving mating horses (taken from
'The Beast') and donkeys (filmed specifically for this film). I wouldn't call
this historically accurate exactly (there's an understatement!), but I'll let
that pass as the film at least tries to pile on the sleaze to make up for its
other shortcomings: even though everything that goes on here is too cheesy to
be offensive. For instance, during a torture sequence, a man is seen chained
upside down and hacked between the legs with a sword, causing him to bleed to
death. This could have been disturbing, if not for the fact the victim has
been stripped down to a ghastly pair of black pants, which just made me smile
with amusement. The rape of a bride and groom, also seen in the Penthouse
version, is re-played here, only Caligula rapes the guy with his penis this
time and not his fist. There is also a threesome involving a midget and scenes
of incest. What really lets 'Caligula and Messalina' down though are the
number of scenes borrowed from other films that have been spliced in to the
movie. When ever the screenplay calls upon the need for sequences involving
large crowds, battles or moments of mass destruction, the film switches to
borrowed footage that doesn't fit well with what was actually shot by Pass,
who simply cuts back and forth between this stock footage and his actors
looking on from a far (and occasionally waving their hands). It looks goofy
...about the only positive thing you can say about these scenes are that they
provide some kind of comedy value. As roman history exploitation flicks go,
'Caligula and Messalina' is more like 'Caligula's Slaves' as opposed to
D'Amato's excellent 'Caligula...The Untold Story'. Watchable, but unmemorable.
In fact, I also prefer the comedy sex flick 'Messalina! Messalina!' (starring
the unbelievably sexy Anneka De Lorenzo), which was filmed using the sets of
the original Penthouse masterpiece. A Japanese Laserdisc release of 'Caligula
and Messalina' clocked in at around 75 minutes, shorn of all its pubic hair
shots and some of the violence. More recently, a German disc (Laser Paradise)
has surfaced with a running time of 108m, which appears to be uncut. The DVD
is presented in widescreen (2.35:1) with German or English audio options. The
image looks quite nice though some sequences on the English track appear in
German audio only, and are of inferior picture quality.
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