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  • @marclawson6144
    @marclawson6144 4 роки тому +1530

    without the Roman decapitation machine, today we'd have no lawnmowers.

    • @PatrickSilent
      @PatrickSilent 3 роки тому +44

      That is absolutely brilliant.

    • @13strange67
      @13strange67 3 роки тому +37

      . . . and no French Revolution

    • @viborgvee8399
      @viborgvee8399 Рік тому +33

      What did the Romans do for us? 🤷‍♂️

    • @rjr6274
      @rjr6274 Рік тому +50

      @@viborgvee8399 They built the western world. Many things you see in your daily life came from them, including the letters you are using to write and read this.

    • @wastehazey6468
      @wastehazey6468 Рік тому +27

      ​@@rjr6274well beside those things, what have the Romans ever done for us?

  • @enragedkaiser237
    @enragedkaiser237 3 роки тому +910

    This movie had incredible sets. Can't imagine any modern filmmaker having the balls to put such thing in his movie!

    • @wanderlust2279
      @wanderlust2279 3 роки тому +15

      Or hers

    • @sleezboy992
      @sleezboy992 3 роки тому +20

      Well Bob Gucionne is not exactly a filmmaker

    • @DJKinney
      @DJKinney 3 роки тому +21

      @@wanderlust2279 no balls at all.

    • @mosquerajoseph7305
      @mosquerajoseph7305 2 роки тому

      @@sleezboy992 the scenes Tinto Brass filmed still include lots of dicks, tits, and ass

    • @creepyskulldini581
      @creepyskulldini581 2 роки тому +20

      Say what one will about Caligula as an ENTIRE movie "Its BAD" or "Its GREAT!" blah blah yakity yak, THIS has to be among the most awesome scenes in motion picture history!

  • @rogereduardoperezesponda3358
    @rogereduardoperezesponda3358 2 роки тому +355

    "If only all Rome has just one neck" that phrase...

    • @rogereduardoperezesponda3358
      @rogereduardoperezesponda3358 2 роки тому +11

      Had*

    • @emanuel82
      @emanuel82 5 місяців тому +27

      According to Suetonius Caligula actually said that.

    • @HowieHoward-ti3dx
      @HowieHoward-ti3dx 5 місяців тому +14

      I thought he said one egg.... now I know it is neck.

    • @etsequentia6765
      @etsequentia6765 4 місяці тому +5

      "That's it, off you go then, I heard that! you're no good emperor. Your services are no longer required. We're getting someone more sensible."

    • @KowalskiVanishing_Point
      @KowalskiVanishing_Point 4 місяці тому

      So did Carl Panzram.​@@emanuel82

  • @Danny2113182
    @Danny2113182 3 роки тому +739

    That death machine looks like something straight out of Jodorowsky's imagination. The cinematography for this movie seems next level

    • @norcalroamer5774
      @norcalroamer5774 3 роки тому +31

      If this is out of Jodorowsky’s imagination, imagine what his nightmares are like.

    • @JacquesMesrine94
      @JacquesMesrine94 3 роки тому +3

      The amount of hairy pussies is also next level in this movie...

    • @ChupeTTe
      @ChupeTTe 2 роки тому +17

      I thought i was the only one who saw parallels to Jodorowsky.
      The amount of gore and naked women is very Jodorowsky

    • @creepyskulldini581
      @creepyskulldini581 2 роки тому +10

      Say what one will about Caligula as an ENTIRE movie "Its BAD" or "Its GREAT!" blah blah yakity yak, THIS has to be among the most awesome scenes in motion picture history!

    • @johnjamele
      @johnjamele Рік тому +12

      well, it never existed in actual Rome, so it certainly came out of some modern person's imagination.

  • @morko3981
    @morko3981 4 роки тому +786

    this scene reminds me of the dreams i have when i'm sick

    • @Renegade4_life
      @Renegade4_life 4 роки тому +26

      Lol i always have weird dreams when sick

    • @AbrahamLincoln4
      @AbrahamLincoln4 3 роки тому +12

      sick with corona? or sick like a sadist lol

    • @byronb3506
      @byronb3506 3 роки тому +5

      LEgit LOL there. Spot on my friend

    • @kennethwayne6857
      @kennethwayne6857 5 місяців тому +10

      The sound alone is nightmare-inducing.

    • @javelinXH992
      @javelinXH992 5 місяців тому

      For some reason it reminded me of the cleaners in Labyrinth.

  • @anfrac3700
    @anfrac3700 3 роки тому +455

    Didn’t know Caligula was a resident evil boss.

    • @davell1078
      @davell1078 2 місяці тому +6

      jokes aside, I bet there's a shit to on antagonists in the media based on Caligula.

    • @kubikkuratko188
      @kubikkuratko188 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@davell1078Nero I would say has more, concidering the number 666 at least asociation with evil comes from him

  • @ChrisJFilms
    @ChrisJFilms 3 роки тому +747

    Here’s a theory: Alex from Clockwork Orange is a descendant of this version of Caligula. I mean, I’m sure if Alex had absolute power he would do shit like this

    • @jeremiahdansereau2950
      @jeremiahdansereau2950 3 роки тому +69

      Explaines his love for a bit of the ol ultraviolence and the in out in out

    • @l.salisbury1253
      @l.salisbury1253 3 роки тому +37

      @@jeremiahdansereau2950 "I've taught you much, me little Droogies!"

    • @ChupeTTe
      @ChupeTTe 2 роки тому +12

      Lol, but sadly no Beethoven or Monteverdi to bop the head to.

    • @joshchelf7729
      @joshchelf7729 5 місяців тому

      More likely a reincarnation.

    • @behelit1997
      @behelit1997 5 місяців тому +3

      ​@@ChupeTTehe dances with the screams of the decapitated

  • @emcaco
    @emcaco 3 роки тому +519

    Why with all the world's CGI at our fingertips don't we get more set design like this? It's all identical silvery spaceships and gray square-jawed villains. Gimme more crimson nightmare deathwalls with homoerotic visual themes, cowards.

    • @philbecker4676
      @philbecker4676 3 роки тому +4

      Oh shut up.

    • @MrBloodandGore
      @MrBloodandGore 3 роки тому +23

      So fucking true

    • @Sean-me4fv
      @Sean-me4fv 3 роки тому

      This is a disgusting depiction of the persecution and execution of homosexuals, and the best description you can think of is "homoerotic"? I think your next UA-cam comment needs to be "Gimme more education."

    • @oppie47
      @oppie47 3 роки тому +24

      @@Sean-me4fv
      Persecution of homosexuals? Huh? Did we watch the same movie? I remember the 15 minute long orgy scene, but the persecution of homosexuals scene slipped right past me.

    • @alcd6333
      @alcd6333 3 роки тому +25

      Hollywood has little imagination nowadays. It's mostly comic book action, sequels, and remakes. Almost no attention is paid to the story.

  • @tremorsfan
    @tremorsfan 2 роки тому +60

    I love that little "ick" noise he makes at the end.

    • @bretcantwell4921
      @bretcantwell4921 6 місяців тому +9

      Over a piece of fruit after watching 20 people beheaded.

    • @kseniaixbalam2826
      @kseniaixbalam2826 5 місяців тому +2

      It’s so Caligula-ish 😂

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw 5 місяців тому +1

      Maybe he had #TourettesSyndrome

  • @pschroeter1
    @pschroeter1 2 роки тому +85

    So this is where that nightmare memory comes from. I wonder how I saw this decades ago.

    • @Iantonio132
      @Iantonio132 7 місяців тому +5

      Prolly ya last life brother

    • @overworlder
      @overworlder 5 місяців тому +1

      haha me too

  • @cosmicwolf9918
    @cosmicwolf9918 3 роки тому +228

    Joffrey would’ve loved to have something like this

    • @iddididiii9970
      @iddididiii9970 3 роки тому +15

      Yeah lmao

    • @TrueBuddhaCat
      @TrueBuddhaCat 3 місяці тому +3

      Heh, funny you should mention that
      Because Joffrey and the actual Caligula look alike(not even joking, just look at a comparison)

    • @BaronVonYolo
      @BaronVonYolo 2 місяці тому

      Joffrey would have loved Caligula, on a platonic level of course.

    • @ImWithTeamTrinity
      @ImWithTeamTrinity Місяць тому

      @@BaronVonYolo Bro, the dude had a horse in bed with him, and it was clearly too terified of him to resist.

    • @BaronVonYolo
      @BaronVonYolo Місяць тому

      @@ImWithTeamTrinity Well maybe Joffrey would be horsed too...

  • @classiclife7204
    @classiclife7204 3 роки тому +156

    Visually creative, but probably too quick for the Caligula of tradition (evidently the real one was merely an occasionally violent troll). One thing Caligula was supposed to have said while ordering an execution was to tell his henchmen that he wanted the prisoners cut slowly with knives, "so that they FEEL that they are dying." The phrase is so simple and terrible that it might even be true.

    • @silversnail1413
      @silversnail1413 2 роки тому +32

      The death itself is quick, but imagine being stuck there unable to move while this unstoppable machine of death is coming towards you. The psychological torture alone might be enough for a true sadist to get off on.

    • @classiclife7204
      @classiclife7204 2 роки тому +8

      @@silversnail1413 Yeah I can see that.

    • @Xfactories
      @Xfactories Рік тому +14

      That's in the movie. He orders the death of Proculus and gets mad when he dies too quickly.

    • @emanuel82
      @emanuel82 5 місяців тому +5

      Psychopaths has been around forever. Caligula clearly was one.

    • @binbows2258
      @binbows2258 2 місяці тому

      @@emanuel82 thats want the roman elite want you to think..

  • @idontknow164
    @idontknow164 4 роки тому +287

    This scene is so comically over the top I can't take it seriously. Also, let's face it, if Caligula could've he probably would've had something like this built.

    • @GabiGris
      @GabiGris 3 роки тому +15

      Oh you're so serious about movies 🤣

    • @Hhjhfu247
      @Hhjhfu247 3 роки тому +18

      Thats good Such a thing never existed

    • @cosmiceyness
      @cosmiceyness 3 роки тому +17

      whole movie is over the top

    • @N00BTUBER987
      @N00BTUBER987 3 роки тому

      You’re a nerd

    • @marioarce9556
      @marioarce9556 2 роки тому +2

      Como toda pelicuala hay fantacia y mentiras

  • @officialFredDurstfanclub
    @officialFredDurstfanclub 2 роки тому +273

    I have to give them credit for going so completely all out with such a seedy, morally deranged film. It’s basically high budget porn, with a bunch of A listers. You could never get away with something this ballsy and nuts today, much less release it in theatres

    • @Skinski7
      @Skinski7 Рік тому +47

      Just visit a local Pride Parade instead.

    • @Xane_Dragon
      @Xane_Dragon Рік тому +9

      ​@@Skinski7 🤣 True

    • @pandakicker1
      @pandakicker1 Рік тому +15

      @@Skinski7Ewwww no! They have no taste anymore. They just look ridiculous and horrid while not caring that they look horrid. I’d rather watch Caligula.

    • @tomservo5347
      @tomservo5347 5 місяців тому +10

      Seedy and morally deranged-the Roman Empire. Emperor Augustus realized this and tried introducing laws of moral virtue but it just kept getting worse after his death. Augustus was one of those once in a million rulers.

    • @embreis2257
      @embreis2257 5 місяців тому +4

      @@tomservo5347 Marcus Aurelius was one of those too - only about 150yrs later 'once in a million'

  • @shanekilpatrick3378
    @shanekilpatrick3378 5 місяців тому +41

    “If only Rome had one neck!” Sir Peter Ustinov said something similar in Quo Vadis. “If Rome only had one throat, I could choke it and stop the maddening cries of the people!”

  • @mickeytwister4721
    @mickeytwister4721 3 роки тому +53

    The face makes on the death wall makes it even scarier

  • @kingston4313
    @kingston4313 3 роки тому +45

    The set is crazy. Look at the costumes!!! So opulent.

  • @jerryjones1344
    @jerryjones1344  5 років тому +68

    Saturday entertainment in Roman times.

    • @Kelly14UK
      @Kelly14UK 4 роки тому

      Was this execution one of their Matinees?

    • @sebastiancastellanos9527
      @sebastiancastellanos9527 4 роки тому +10

      @@Kelly14UK dude all things besides, caligula was a savage emperor and we need to be glad that we weren't born around his time...

    • @Kelly14UK
      @Kelly14UK 4 роки тому +3

      @@sebastiancastellanos9527 Yeah he was a git. Folk must've been relieved.

    • @reoreborn
      @reoreborn 4 роки тому +4

      Better than Britians got Talent.

    • @reoreborn
      @reoreborn 4 роки тому +1

      @@sebastiancastellanos9527 Bollocks. He was a glorious leader. One of the best! It's all propaganda I tell ye'.

  • @bayibayi
    @bayibayi 5 місяців тому +22

    That device is entirely fictional but if Caligula saw that in real life he'd definitely wanted to have one.

  • @stevekaczynski3793
    @stevekaczynski3793 Рік тому +82

    If such a thing had really existed at the time, it would have been an engineering miracle. A bit of re-arranging and it could have been used for threshing and other agricultural uses.

    • @pip12111
      @pip12111 10 місяців тому +18

      It's plausible. The Romans had knowledge about gear ratios,and mechanics

    • @nocturnalrecluse1216
      @nocturnalrecluse1216 5 місяців тому +6

      It didn't exist, just like jeebus didn't exist.

    • @overworlder
      @overworlder 5 місяців тому +11

      They had some pretty big machines. There was a rotating top floor on a tower on the Palatine that was driven by oxen pulling a treadmill in the basement transmitted to the platform by massive wooden shafts and gearing.

    • @emanuel82
      @emanuel82 5 місяців тому +21

      The romans had knowledge to create mechanics like that. No doubt. If they wanted to they could do it. The engineringskill was so developed that it took at least 1500 years to surpass it. We didnt get water in our houses until 19th century. The romans had that!

    • @cezar211091
      @cezar211091 5 місяців тому +6

      Could have been built, they had the gears.

  • @cutypie878
    @cutypie878 3 роки тому +177

    You can't imagine how cruel a man is when the power is in his hands.

    • @user-kf7lu4qe6v
      @user-kf7lu4qe6v 2 роки тому

      And he's in hell now

    • @morwickchesterham3875
      @morwickchesterham3875 Рік тому

      actually he's in heaven fuking jesus's ass...

    • @Purpledawg-d9s
      @Purpledawg-d9s 11 місяців тому +21

      One of the truest measures of a person is how they handle power

    • @NorthForkFisherman
      @NorthForkFisherman 5 місяців тому +17

      You don't need to imagine. just read the history of, well, anywhere there are humans.

    • @BegoneJonah
      @BegoneJonah 5 місяців тому +9

      Sure we can. Unconstitutional Covid vaccine mandates, anyone?

  • @StopFear
    @StopFear 4 роки тому +221

    There really is no point to the director having put this thing into the movie. There simply never was any such wall, or machine. But because its in the movie some people think it was real.

    • @marksolarz3756
      @marksolarz3756 4 роки тому +7

      StopFear your right....they had far longer more amusing death....scenes! This was just crazy.......to short!

    • @StopFear
      @StopFear 4 роки тому +35

      Mark Solarz I mean, it is very interesting to see it in the movie. Especially since we know that Roman rulers in general, and Caligula in particular, were sadistic. I am only saying it’s still a disservice to teaching history.

    • @StopFear
      @StopFear 4 роки тому +7

      @ To be able to say whether vast majority of texts are gone you have to know how many are supposed to be there. That is not known.
      But in general Rome has left us with many more written records and books than any other civilization. In any case, no one goes "well there is no document saying it didn't exist, so it could have existed." Logically no one would make a record describing a very specific thing to just state it didn't exist. Records usually describe actions or things which did take place or did exist.

    • @pantsedjuniorhayseed4816
      @pantsedjuniorhayseed4816 4 роки тому +1

      u don't know that u stupid... u didn't live back then! hating will get u nowhere in life!!

    • @vanthdreadstar8788
      @vanthdreadstar8788 4 роки тому +8

      @@pantsedjuniorhayseed4816
      How have you made it this far being so stupid?

  • @omkr0122
    @omkr0122 4 роки тому +71

    If only all Rome had just one neck!

  • @AbrahamLincoln4
    @AbrahamLincoln4 3 роки тому +45

    0:46 She literally has a leash on her neck.

    • @fritz9830
      @fritz9830 3 роки тому +18

      hot

    • @bigkuriboh3814
      @bigkuriboh3814 9 місяців тому +6

      So did lea in star wars

    • @Captain-Cosmo
      @Captain-Cosmo 5 місяців тому +11

      Helen Mirren in her prime. What's not to like?

    • @phuturelee3420
      @phuturelee3420 5 місяців тому +1

      Yes she does. And ironically Dame Helen Mirren would probably request putting one on. She''ll never stop embracing her sexuality.

    • @Xabier2.0
      @Xabier2.0 5 місяців тому +6

      ⁠@@Captain-CosmoHelen Mirren fine AF!

  • @J_man247
    @J_man247 3 роки тому +35

    Hi billy Mays here for the giant Roman wall of death, the fast and easy way to slice and dice them pesky peasants!

    • @stoogefest16
      @stoogefest16 Місяць тому +2

      But wait, there’s more!
      Call now and for just six easy payments of $19.95, we’ll throw in this Brazen Bull mechanism…free of charge.

  • @blipblip88
    @blipblip88 Рік тому +17

    This movie is debauchery x 1000, as the violence and porn scenes are many. That they had so many top-line actors in the film amazes me to this day. Thanks!

    • @mkervelegan
      @mkervelegan Рік тому +2

      The power of money commands you!

    • @brianmcconnell1817
      @brianmcconnell1817 5 місяців тому +7

      They had no idea about the graphic sex scenes. Those scenes were all filmed independently of the A listers and edited into the film later. Obviously they were enraged about it but there was nothing they could do.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Місяць тому

      @@brianmcconnell1817 Sir John Gielgud apparently objected after it was released. _Not The Nine O Clock News_ ridiculed him by having him say there was no sex and violence on the cheque he received, but that might be unfair cynicism on their part.

  • @markrdavis5368
    @markrdavis5368 5 місяців тому +13

    The beheadings and the head raising to the people. The banging of drums.

  • @Kevinhall11
    @Kevinhall11 3 роки тому +16

    That is such an impractical way to behead someone.

  • @alcd6333
    @alcd6333 4 роки тому +26

    At the end when he's assassinated, his mute guard gets decapitated.

    • @omkr0122
      @omkr0122 4 роки тому +1

      Would have been great if they had used this headchopper

  • @AbrahamLincoln4
    @AbrahamLincoln4 3 роки тому +27

    "How would you ever know it's yours?" lol.

    • @brentfisher902
      @brentfisher902 3 роки тому +2

      Full Auto with Silencers and Drum Magazine...just spray and pray...one of the those discharged sperm cells has got to hit SOMETHING....

    • @Thenogomogo-zo3un
      @Thenogomogo-zo3un 2 місяці тому +1

      DNA testing of course!

  • @TRHARTAmericanArtist
    @TRHARTAmericanArtist Рік тому +19

    Macro was confident of rapid promotion for past services but Emperor Caligula was aware of the potential threat Macro posed and soon removed him from office. According to some sources, Macro was promised the governorship of Egypt but upon arriving at Ostia with Ennia to take ship, he was instead arrested and stripped of his office. Macro committed suicide soon after. Macro was able to leave enough money to provide an amphitheatre for his home town of Alba Fucens

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Рік тому +3

      A more prosaic death than this one. Amoral, but Caligula was probably astute enough to reflect that a figure who could kill one emperor might be a threat to another.

    • @wilhiamas
      @wilhiamas 6 місяців тому +2

      Your account of Macro is exactly what Robert Graves described in his great novel "I, Claudius".

    • @TRHARTAmericanArtist
      @TRHARTAmericanArtist 6 місяців тому +2

      @@wilhiamas We had the same source. Suetonious who wrote about the first twelve Caesars

  • @psn3720
    @psn3720 3 роки тому +28

    When the devil takes the form of man and the government

    • @williamjeune6469
      @williamjeune6469 3 роки тому +2

      I’d also describe Norman Stansfield from Leòn the Professional.

  • @anthonylagano
    @anthonylagano Місяць тому +2

    I remember lying that I was 18 to the video store clerk so I could rent this on VHS back in the early 80’s . Was definitely a wild and crazy film . So odd to see top notch actors like Peter O’toole , Sir John Gielgud and Malcolm McDowell in a soft core porno . Years later I read that Bob Guccione of Penthouse added in some of the more xrated scenes after without their knowledge. 😎😎😎

  • @5Mariner
    @5Mariner Рік тому +41

    Only Malcolm McDowell could’ve played Caligula this well!

    • @Xane_Dragon
      @Xane_Dragon Рік тому +4

      Yeah, he should have played Jack the ripper 😂

    • @stairwaytoheaven8
      @stairwaytoheaven8 11 місяців тому +3

      @ACAPREDDUDE Trying so hard to be different so others can acknowledge your existence LOL Malcolm McDowell is a legendary and one of the best Actors. You probably like johnny depp

    • @PallasAthene12
      @PallasAthene12 7 місяців тому +7

      John Hurt did a pretty amazing Caligula in I, Claudius. A different style, for sure, but absolutely chilling.

    • @lornearmstrong1834
      @lornearmstrong1834 2 місяці тому +1

      @@PallasAthene12 I actually like Hurt's Caligula better, funny and more unpredictably mad.

  • @SweetGypsyRose
    @SweetGypsyRose 2 роки тому +4

    Helen Mirran a lovely & talented actress im today yrs old finding it in 2022 as a baby boomer i should have known this...

    • @baraxor
      @baraxor Рік тому +2

      She was the only reason I saw this movie.

    • @heliotropezzz333
      @heliotropezzz333 6 місяців тому +1

      Mirren

    • @petersmithyy4556
      @petersmithyy4556 3 місяці тому +1

      Honestly I'm surprised that she was in this

  • @bernardogui3607
    @bernardogui3607 3 роки тому +12

    Why are there guys on the decapitation machine swinging canoe padels?

  • @pastormango6688
    @pastormango6688 2 роки тому +11

    Calígula talking about Disney 's top movie writters: 1:04

  • @ishtarbabylon4869
    @ishtarbabylon4869 3 роки тому +18

    An absolutely underrated gem

  • @Wickedfun96
    @Wickedfun96 4 дні тому +1

    Just wait til Biggus Dickus hears of this!

  • @johnflagg1898
    @johnflagg1898 2 роки тому +8

    I particularly like Travis Bickle's cameo!

    • @eamonwright7488
      @eamonwright7488 2 роки тому +3

      “One day a great flood of red wine will come and wash the streets of Aventide clean.”

  • @davidellis5135
    @davidellis5135 2 роки тому +16

    Did such a machine actually exist in ancient Rome, I mean they used to flood the coliseum and have sea battles .

    • @NumeroBruno
      @NumeroBruno Рік тому +6

      No, this machine does not exist

  • @quothetheraven79
    @quothetheraven79 3 роки тому +10

    It slices! It dices!!! It chicken fried rices!!!!!

  • @MelancoliaI
    @MelancoliaI Рік тому +36

    Poor Macro. The only real friend Caligula had.

    • @ovechkin100
      @ovechkin100 Рік тому +2

      was he really a friend? He smothered his old Emperor.

    • @MelancoliaI
      @MelancoliaI Рік тому

      @@ovechkin100 The man was loyal...to a fault.

    • @ovechkin100
      @ovechkin100 Рік тому +3

      @@MelancoliaI nah. In these times this was obvious. He saw his old boss aging. He knew he had to get on the good side of the new emperor while he could, so he merely killed the old emperor to do so. Caligula knew he would do it to him if he had to. His sister even tells him this in the movie.

    • @MelancoliaI
      @MelancoliaI Рік тому

      @@ovechkin100 It's been a while since I saw the movie but I thought that Caligula killed Tiberius himself. I could be wrong 🤔

    • @ovechkin100
      @ovechkin100 Рік тому +4

      @@MelancoliaI You're definitely wrong. Macro kills Tiberius and turns to Caligula and says "hail Caesar"

  • @WinslowLeach1974
    @WinslowLeach1974 2 роки тому +13

    This is absolutely horrible, all that good food they're throwing and wasting 😦
    And heck yeah, Helen Mirren 🔥🔥

    • @phoenixman8569
      @phoenixman8569 5 місяців тому

      the wealthy waste food while the peasants starve in abject poverty, that the roman empire for ya!!!

  • @davidryley4162
    @davidryley4162 5 місяців тому +17

    I saw this when at the empire, Leicester square, when it came out. I was around 18.
    I am 62 now. Wow.

    • @landonjones258
      @landonjones258 5 місяців тому +2

      I saw it at a late showing at a theatre in London (can't remember which one) in 1984. I was 20. Curious similarity of place and time.

  • @waltonkromer2702
    @waltonkromer2702 3 роки тому +10

    Ladies and Gentleman, I present to to you the newly patented DECAPITATOR

  • @forest8779
    @forest8779 4 місяці тому +3

    Malcoms face in the thumbnail 🤣 what any kid today would look like if you asked them if they wanted to see a decapitation 😂

  • @conscious-typeperson4583
    @conscious-typeperson4583 Рік тому +4

    This feels like something envisioned during a bad acid trip.

  • @sosa0
    @sosa0 2 місяці тому +2

    This set design, costume design, and cinematography is pretty amazing. I gotta actually watch this film now.

  • @Carla-jd1ub
    @Carla-jd1ub Рік тому +4

    How is this allowed to stay on UA-cam? It’s so brutal im sick

  • @davidroberts7706
    @davidroberts7706 Місяць тому +1

    Helen Mirren is that scene (she is the one in the magenta toga).

  • @ianchristopher9422
    @ianchristopher9422 5 місяців тому +6

    I don't know why but UA-cam decided to recommend this for me to watch...

  • @wolfpax22
    @wolfpax22 10 місяців тому +5

    This has to be the craziest scene in the whole movie. This whole maniacal contraption, like who thinks up this stuff?

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Місяць тому

      In a film that was mainly a huge turkey, this is a bit of genius.

  • @AJ1990.
    @AJ1990. 5 місяців тому +3

    Its crazy that it took them that long to think, "alright this guy is just a bad apple. Time for a coup."

  • @franks5312
    @franks5312 3 роки тому +9

    The actor bahind caligula is soo good

    • @declanjones8888
      @declanjones8888 Рік тому +1

      You can never go wrong with Malcolm McDowell.

  • @ErnieStephenson
    @ErnieStephenson 5 місяців тому +5

    there are time when i think that's a lot of directors/writers are just plain sadistic psychopaths...

  • @fs.pureblood
    @fs.pureblood 5 місяців тому +2

    I remember when this was on at the cinema. Had no idea Malcolm McDowell was in it. Didn't fancy seeing it at the time but I wouldn't mind watching it now.

  • @robjones2408
    @robjones2408 2 роки тому +8

    Clearly the template for Game Of Thrones. MM was perverse and impish as ever, in his role as Caligula.

    • @naturalwizard1441
      @naturalwizard1441 4 місяці тому

      @@robjones2408 I recall a scene in Game of Thrones when Joffrey forces a guy to drink wine until his stomach gets bloated. Right out of Caligula.

  • @arserobinson7118
    @arserobinson7118 5 місяців тому +3

    Killing Macro led to his downfall. The reason the emperor before Caligula lived so long was because he had Macro in his pocket and therefore could control the prefects and any mutiny. Chaerea was quick to kill Caligula when he got the opportunity.

  • @MarvinThiessen
    @MarvinThiessen 3 місяці тому +8

    What a sick piece of work.

  • @Phoenixesper1
    @Phoenixesper1 2 місяці тому +1

    I feel like pinhead should have been sitting next to him discussing the intracacies of this miraculous murder machine over a bottle of human tears and blood.

  • @MiguelPerez-zx2wg
    @MiguelPerez-zx2wg 2 роки тому +9

    So no one is gonna ask how potatoes are in 1th century A.D Rome when The Spanish haven't reached to the Americas in 1400 year later.

  • @criticalbill2090
    @criticalbill2090 4 дні тому

    No mobile phones, no social media, no internet. Just people living in the moment. I miss these days

  • @kevinmunday5782
    @kevinmunday5782 2 роки тому +2

    Cool the first combine harvester

  • @incizor1273
    @incizor1273 5 місяців тому +3

    Do these machines have any realism to them? As in, did the romans use antyhing like this?

  • @bg-yr5ir
    @bg-yr5ir 2 роки тому +5

    My friends mother hired this on VHS for us when we were 12. A little inappropriate in retrospect.

    • @Pisca-kk5cs
      @Pisca-kk5cs Рік тому +3

      I saw this in my teens too… the uncut full version!

    • @silversnail1413
      @silversnail1413 Рік тому +1

      First time I saw this movie was with my dad. He saw it when he was like 18 years old and it made a huge impression on him so when it got released on DVD he rented it and we watched it together.

  • @TheWaynos73
    @TheWaynos73 21 день тому +1

    Alex DeLarge’s ancestor in action.

  • @AbrahamLincoln4
    @AbrahamLincoln4 3 роки тому +17

    *"They're all homosexuals who have been castrated."*

    • @brentfisher902
      @brentfisher902 3 роки тому +5

      That's like a computer CPU chip which has had the smoke liberated from it's epoxy prison.

    • @austinwillcut4919
      @austinwillcut4919 Рік тому +2

      What's strange is that the term "homosexual" didn't exist back then, they were referred to as Eunuchs by some.

    • @TallSilentGuy
      @TallSilentGuy 4 місяці тому +3

      @@austinwillcut4919 What's even stranger is that they are speaking English...

    • @1292liam
      @1292liam 4 місяці тому

      @@austinwillcut4919 because they assumed they didnt use them at all?

  • @RumbleFish69
    @RumbleFish69 3 місяці тому +1

    Geez! I just realized that Helen Mirren was in this film. Man O' man! Hubba hubba!

  • @davidfricker1208
    @davidfricker1208 3 роки тому +19

    Why are they throwing potatoes? That's a new world

    • @DiviAugusti
      @DiviAugusti 3 роки тому +15

      They probably figured everyone would have to suspend disbelief for the giant death wall anyway.

    • @user-pi3hd2bt3f
      @user-pi3hd2bt3f 2 роки тому +12

      Its actually eggs and i think they thought if they got one they wouldnt die.

  • @davidroosa4561
    @davidroosa4561 2 місяці тому +3

    those appear to be potatoes 1500 years before they existed outside of south america

  • @Oi325
    @Oi325 2 роки тому +1

    Is that Jason Miller who's gets beheaded 2nd?

  • @Ozrictentacles87
    @Ozrictentacles87 4 місяці тому +5

    This scene is insane

  • @tedcantu1
    @tedcantu1 2 роки тому +7

    I saw part of this on TV in college years ago....this scene sticks out.... was this based on a real thing? Its so outlandish and I never heard of it

    • @declanjones8888
      @declanjones8888 Рік тому +1

      There are no records of Caligula building something like this, although if he was able he probably would've had it built.

  • @merlionsin8129
    @merlionsin8129 3 місяці тому

    This is assuming the machine runs smoothly without any hiccup upon impact. Imagine when it's stuck halfway through the job.

  • @woodwyrm
    @woodwyrm 3 місяці тому +1

    Is that John Hurt as Caligula?

    • @anxorico6946
      @anxorico6946 3 місяці тому +2

      No is Malcom Macdowel Jhon Hurt is from I Claudius.

    • @Thenogomogo-zo3un
      @Thenogomogo-zo3un 2 місяці тому +1

      No, he's on the Nostromo wearing a mask

  • @snorgisborg2
    @snorgisborg2 Місяць тому +1

    Alex in another timeline

  • @babysealsareyummy
    @babysealsareyummy 29 днів тому

    I just noticed there's a naked woman tied up at the top of the machine (in the red circle 0:08 and 1:32) . I thought it was a statue at first until I saw her moving. Is there a backstory here or just Caligula's eclectic decorating? 😅

  • @michaelcarter8120
    @michaelcarter8120 5 місяців тому +3

    This movie, to put it nicely, sucked!
    It was produced by Bob Guccione who also published Penthouse magazine. Mr. Guccione was a former truck driver from the Bronx who wanted to be the next Hugh Hefner. He tried to come across as a sophisticated, intelligent, well-heeled individual but was nothing more than a truck driver from the Bronx. He would wear polyester shirts, unbuttoned half-way down his chest, and tons of gold chains. Yes, cheap disco Bob.
    Penthouse magazine was nothing more than softcore porn. The “Letters to the Editor” were a total joke. They were obvious fantasies sent by lonely men. “I never thought I would be writing to Penthouse but I had the most incredible experience. The entire cheerleader squad invited me to their sorority house and we…”
    ‘Caligula’ was softcore porn. It wasn’t even good softcore porn. As producer, Bob Guccione made a bunch of changes to the original screenplay. “If all of Rome only had one neck”. Just what in the hell is that supposed to mean? That beheading machine? Oh yeah, I’m sure they existed 2000 years ago.
    I remember when this movie was released. Bob Guccione said in a press conference, “This is a story that needs to be told”. No, it’s not a story that ‘needs’ to be told. It’s a story that sucks!

  • @creepyskulldini581
    @creepyskulldini581 2 роки тому +10

    Say what one will about Caligula as an ENTIRE movie "Its BAD" or "Its GREAT!" Blah blah blah yakity yak, THIS has to be among the most awesome scenes in motion picture history!

  • @SamuelBlack84
    @SamuelBlack84 3 місяці тому

    Imagine being forced to wait and being utterly helpless to stop it knowing your death was certain

  • @jackphillips3354
    @jackphillips3354 Рік тому +3

    Didn’t Caligula used to do this on real life?

    • @flochforster7864
      @flochforster7864 Рік тому +1

      no its a hollywood movie how do you think they could make a giant wall of death with spinning blades in ancient Rome? more on

    • @jackphillips3354
      @jackphillips3354 Рік тому

      @@flochforster7864 I wasn’t talking about the wall. Of course, that never happened. I just read something a hundred million years ago that he used to make making his guards decapitating his guests at the dinner table a fairly regular thing. I wanted to confirm it.

    • @jackphillips3354
      @jackphillips3354 Рік тому

      @@flochforster7864 did he? And not with the wall. Obviously I knew that already.🙄 But with guards.

    • @flochforster7864
      @flochforster7864 Рік тому

      @@jackphillips3354 Unlikely, but if you can find evidence, I'm open to correction. Historians hate Caligula because for a young, idealistic leader, he was harsh and by today's standards brutal. Remember that Rome did in fact enjoy watching people fight to the death in a Colosseum, so although the stories themselves are likely fiction, they represent what people who lived under his rule thought of it.
      When you hear stories from history of controversial leaders doing outlandishly violent things, it will either have an abundant amount of proof, or will be completely made up by their enemies. Caligula was hated during his time and still is hated. Historians claim he went to war with the ocean too. There is seldom evidence besides quotes from historians who lived hundreds of years after him, and coincidentally were biased against him. Lots of Caligula's life is misrepresented to make him look crazy, but he was by no means a gentle emperor.

    • @jackphillips3354
      @jackphillips3354 Рік тому

      @@flochforster7864 youre 100% right about all of that. He is right to be hated, and you are right to hate him. But me, I do not think he was a hateful man. He was insane, but I don’t believe he was evil. Not true evil, anyway. As Tiberius said, “I am nursing a viper unto the world!” If you’ve read his history, and I’m sure you have, you know that before he took power he’d spent the entire TWENTY TWO YEARS of his life up till then perpetually in living hell! When his father, one of Rome’s finest generals, died under “mysterious circumstances” when he was only three, the power vacuum he left left a target on the back of his head. He was constantly running and hiding, being shuffled from one sympathetic official to another, as his life was constantly in literal mortal danger. Then he spent another six years in the then emperor Tiberius’s retreat, Caprica. There he hosted orgies regularly, only he was the only one getting off. It wasn’t like National Lampoon’s Animal House in there. Sexual abuse, health hazards, and public humiliation were the foundation pillars Tiberius built that awful place on. Witnesses noted that “you would never have seen a better servant, or a worse master”. He spent his whole life before the throne essentially walking blindfolded in a minefield, while the powers that be had a little pool going on when he was going to take his step. That last bit was figurative, in case that’s not obvious, and you get the wrong idea. Of course, when he began to rule, he seemed to be everything the empire hoped he’d be. Right up until he became violently ill, then when he recovered everything you pinpointed was when it was all down hill from there. When you read his story, YOU see disgust and contempt, I see my childhood and the terrible trauma that came with it. Plenty of his contemporaries had monstrous childhoods that didn’t affect the terrible things they later did: Bundy, Hitler, Gacy, Manson, Ramirez, amongst others. For the above stated reasons, I don’t think Gaius fits among them. Some people are not born monsters. They’re made monsters!!! Through years of abuse❤️‍🩹🥺 Simply put, although it’s not really simple at all, he just didn’t know any better. It’s not as simple as just waking up, brushing your teeth, going to school, and say “I’m not going to be an evil megalomaniac when I grow up. I’m going to solve world hunger and rescue a kitty from a burning building, and all the forest people will be my friends”. Dude! Nobody would do what the subject of this film did with his life if everything was that black and white. People can’t always understand these things for themselves. Either they don’t get a chance, nobody taught them any better. This guy, Ed Kemper, Charles Whitman, Ted Kaczynski, Tommy Lynn Sells, Jim Jones, Timothy McVeigh, Aileen Wuornos, Alexander the Great, Andrei Chikatilo, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Richard Chase, Martin Bryant, Jeffrey Dahmer, Griselda Blanco, John Allen Muhammad, Lee Boyd Malvo, One L Goh, Richard Speck, Henry Lee Lucas, Adam Lanza, and Andrew Kehoe didn’t really get a chance to learn better. It doesn’t excuse what they did at all either, and I’m not saying it does! But some people need help finding the better way, because they’ve become so fucked up from living in hell they don’t know what that is. I’ve seen first hand what that is, com padre. No, I’m not saying that anyone with a shitty enough childhood should have a hunting license. Of course there’s no call for acting that way. I’m just saying Gaius Germanicus didn’t climb in there on his own is all. And that we could learn a lot more if we took more from Frankenstein’s Monster than Frankenstein himself.

  • @OrbvsTomarvm
    @OrbvsTomarvm Рік тому +1

    i heared dat der wos pumping in dis vidio is dat rite ., . , ? .,

  • @garyowen4602
    @garyowen4602 Місяць тому +1

    Clockwork orange, great film.

  • @Kevin_Kennelly
    @Kevin_Kennelly Місяць тому

    That last line....if only all Rome had one neck....it really makes me realize how amazing "I, Claudius" really is.

  • @potatogrower
    @potatogrower 2 місяці тому +1

    I have not seen this film before and this clip made me think of Jodorowsky

  • @Pooknottin
    @Pooknottin Рік тому +2

    They say time is the fire in which we burn!

    • @GizmoBeach
      @GizmoBeach Рік тому +1

      Not in The Nexus. It’s nice there, me and my bunch of imaginary kids.

    • @Pooknottin
      @Pooknottin Рік тому +1

      @@GizmoBeach Yes, come in. The eggs are on.

  • @TheRealVolk
    @TheRealVolk 5 місяців тому +3

    This movie is more accurate than Gladiator 2.

  • @viowave
    @viowave Місяць тому

    I love how the 'machine' chants "Rome , rome, rome , rome ..." all the time.

  • @Revelian1982
    @Revelian1982 3 роки тому +16

    In Japan the title of the film is "Carigura". No joke..

  • @lunairepierrot5420
    @lunairepierrot5420 3 роки тому +3

    Why they threw eggs 🤔

  • @simval84
    @simval84 5 місяців тому +5

    0:44 is that Helen Mirren on a golden leash? Not enough comments about this.

    • @ColumbiaBeet
      @ColumbiaBeet Місяць тому

      I know! Seriously right? 🤤

  • @CaneFu
    @CaneFu 11 місяців тому +1

    Well, you have to understand they had no cable TV nor internet back then and so they had to do something for entertainment.

  • @GordiansKnotHere
    @GordiansKnotHere 3 місяці тому +8

    Just another day at the Mar-a-Lago Club...

  • @josephcottone3685
    @josephcottone3685 2 місяці тому +2

    Let’s take a moment to acknowledge how hot Helen Mirren was.

  • @albertocastillo5763
    @albertocastillo5763 2 місяці тому +2

    Inventions for the movie. No ancient writer ever mentioned anything like this.

    • @HeavensDemon966
      @HeavensDemon966 2 місяці тому

      Thank you. That was the first question that came into my mind. Did a machine like this ever exist? Did slaves power it? ... etc....

  • @colorizedenhanced-silentmo9027
    @colorizedenhanced-silentmo9027 4 роки тому +6

    Hello, Jerry Jones. actually captivating video. thanks. :)

  • @verspin
    @verspin 3 місяці тому

    What's this movie about again?

  • @timothycrawford3476
    @timothycrawford3476 3 місяці тому +1

    Just in case you're just discovering this, no such killing machine existed

  • @judenorbz500
    @judenorbz500 4 роки тому +23

    I can’t believe this is a mainstream movie lol a straight fucked up epic

    • @hotelmario510
      @hotelmario510 3 роки тому +7

      It's...not? It's literally a porno. What the fuck have you been smoking?

    • @emilypresleysee
      @emilypresleysee 3 роки тому +9

      @@hotelmario510 it was not made to be a pornographic film. It's an erotic historical drama. It was released mainstream.

    • @highwaystar3780
      @highwaystar3780 Рік тому

      I remember this Grabage playing at selective theaters back in 79' when I was 14. It played at The Ziegfield on Broadway where there were lines around the whole street. My dad was forcing my mom to go because Everyone was hyped up about the Pornographic content. But she wouldn't go. According to McDowell,...it's the biggest grossing independent film of all time and biggest Trash !