@@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.
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!
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!
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
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.
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."
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@@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.
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.
“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!”
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
@ 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.
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!
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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. 😎😎😎
@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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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? 😅
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!
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!
@@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 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.
@@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.
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 !
without the Roman decapitation machine, today we'd have no lawnmowers.
That is absolutely brilliant.
. . . and no French Revolution
What did the Romans do for us? 🤷♂️
@@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.
@@rjr6274well beside those things, what have the Romans ever done for us?
This movie had incredible sets. Can't imagine any modern filmmaker having the balls to put such thing in his movie!
Or hers
Well Bob Gucionne is not exactly a filmmaker
@@wanderlust2279 no balls at all.
@@sleezboy992 the scenes Tinto Brass filmed still include lots of dicks, tits, and ass
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!
"If only all Rome has just one neck" that phrase...
Had*
According to Suetonius Caligula actually said that.
I thought he said one egg.... now I know it is neck.
"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."
So did Carl Panzram.@@emanuel82
That death machine looks like something straight out of Jodorowsky's imagination. The cinematography for this movie seems next level
If this is out of Jodorowsky’s imagination, imagine what his nightmares are like.
The amount of hairy pussies is also next level in this movie...
I thought i was the only one who saw parallels to Jodorowsky.
The amount of gore and naked women is very Jodorowsky
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!
well, it never existed in actual Rome, so it certainly came out of some modern person's imagination.
this scene reminds me of the dreams i have when i'm sick
Lol i always have weird dreams when sick
sick with corona? or sick like a sadist lol
LEgit LOL there. Spot on my friend
The sound alone is nightmare-inducing.
For some reason it reminded me of the cleaners in Labyrinth.
Didn’t know Caligula was a resident evil boss.
jokes aside, I bet there's a shit to on antagonists in the media based on Caligula.
@@davell1078Nero I would say has more, concidering the number 666 at least asociation with evil comes from him
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
Explaines his love for a bit of the ol ultraviolence and the in out in out
@@jeremiahdansereau2950 "I've taught you much, me little Droogies!"
Lol, but sadly no Beethoven or Monteverdi to bop the head to.
More likely a reincarnation.
@@ChupeTTehe dances with the screams of the decapitated
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.
Oh shut up.
So fucking true
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."
@@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.
Hollywood has little imagination nowadays. It's mostly comic book action, sequels, and remakes. Almost no attention is paid to the story.
I love that little "ick" noise he makes at the end.
Over a piece of fruit after watching 20 people beheaded.
It’s so Caligula-ish 😂
Maybe he had #TourettesSyndrome
So this is where that nightmare memory comes from. I wonder how I saw this decades ago.
Prolly ya last life brother
haha me too
Joffrey would’ve loved to have something like this
Yeah lmao
Heh, funny you should mention that
Because Joffrey and the actual Caligula look alike(not even joking, just look at a comparison)
Joffrey would have loved Caligula, on a platonic level of course.
@@BaronVonYolo Bro, the dude had a horse in bed with him, and it was clearly too terified of him to resist.
@@ImWithTeamTrinity Well maybe Joffrey would be horsed too...
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.
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.
@@silversnail1413 Yeah I can see that.
That's in the movie. He orders the death of Proculus and gets mad when he dies too quickly.
Psychopaths has been around forever. Caligula clearly was one.
@@emanuel82 thats want the roman elite want you to think..
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.
Oh you're so serious about movies 🤣
Thats good Such a thing never existed
whole movie is over the top
You’re a nerd
Como toda pelicuala hay fantacia y mentiras
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
Just visit a local Pride Parade instead.
@@Skinski7 🤣 True
@@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.
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.
@@tomservo5347 Marcus Aurelius was one of those too - only about 150yrs later 'once in a million'
“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!”
The face makes on the death wall makes it even scarier
The set is crazy. Look at the costumes!!! So opulent.
Saturday entertainment in Roman times.
Was this execution one of their Matinees?
@@Kelly14UK dude all things besides, caligula was a savage emperor and we need to be glad that we weren't born around his time...
@@sebastiancastellanos9527 Yeah he was a git. Folk must've been relieved.
Better than Britians got Talent.
@@sebastiancastellanos9527 Bollocks. He was a glorious leader. One of the best! It's all propaganda I tell ye'.
That device is entirely fictional but if Caligula saw that in real life he'd definitely wanted to have one.
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.
It's plausible. The Romans had knowledge about gear ratios,and mechanics
It didn't exist, just like jeebus didn't exist.
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.
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!
Could have been built, they had the gears.
You can't imagine how cruel a man is when the power is in his hands.
And he's in hell now
actually he's in heaven fuking jesus's ass...
One of the truest measures of a person is how they handle power
You don't need to imagine. just read the history of, well, anywhere there are humans.
Sure we can. Unconstitutional Covid vaccine mandates, anyone?
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.
StopFear your right....they had far longer more amusing death....scenes! This was just crazy.......to short!
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.
@ 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.
u don't know that u stupid... u didn't live back then! hating will get u nowhere in life!!
@@pantsedjuniorhayseed4816
How have you made it this far being so stupid?
If only all Rome had just one neck!
*"crack* ..... euuugh!..."
0:46 She literally has a leash on her neck.
hot
So did lea in star wars
Helen Mirren in her prime. What's not to like?
Yes she does. And ironically Dame Helen Mirren would probably request putting one on. She''ll never stop embracing her sexuality.
@@Captain-CosmoHelen Mirren fine AF!
Hi billy Mays here for the giant Roman wall of death, the fast and easy way to slice and dice them pesky peasants!
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.
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!
The power of money commands you!
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.
@@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.
The beheadings and the head raising to the people. The banging of drums.
That is such an impractical way to behead someone.
Impractical but COOL!
They doing it for the fun , not the practicality of it
But such a crowd pleaser!
At the end when he's assassinated, his mute guard gets decapitated.
Would have been great if they had used this headchopper
"How would you ever know it's yours?" lol.
Full Auto with Silencers and Drum Magazine...just spray and pray...one of the those discharged sperm cells has got to hit SOMETHING....
DNA testing of course!
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
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.
Your account of Macro is exactly what Robert Graves described in his great novel "I, Claudius".
@@wilhiamas We had the same source. Suetonious who wrote about the first twelve Caesars
When the devil takes the form of man and the government
I’d also describe Norman Stansfield from Leòn the Professional.
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. 😎😎😎
Only Malcolm McDowell could’ve played Caligula this well!
Yeah, he should have played Jack the ripper 😂
@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
John Hurt did a pretty amazing Caligula in I, Claudius. A different style, for sure, but absolutely chilling.
@@PallasAthene12 I actually like Hurt's Caligula better, funny and more unpredictably mad.
Helen Mirran a lovely & talented actress im today yrs old finding it in 2022 as a baby boomer i should have known this...
She was the only reason I saw this movie.
Mirren
Honestly I'm surprised that she was in this
Why are there guys on the decapitation machine swinging canoe padels?
Why not?😂
Calígula talking about Disney 's top movie writters: 1:04
An absolutely underrated gem
It's a piece of cheap filth.
Just wait til Biggus Dickus hears of this!
I particularly like Travis Bickle's cameo!
“One day a great flood of red wine will come and wash the streets of Aventide clean.”
Did such a machine actually exist in ancient Rome, I mean they used to flood the coliseum and have sea battles .
No, this machine does not exist
It slices! It dices!!! It chicken fried rices!!!!!
Poor Macro. The only real friend Caligula had.
was he really a friend? He smothered his old Emperor.
@@ovechkin100 The man was loyal...to a fault.
@@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.
@@ovechkin100 It's been a while since I saw the movie but I thought that Caligula killed Tiberius himself. I could be wrong 🤔
@@MelancoliaI You're definitely wrong. Macro kills Tiberius and turns to Caligula and says "hail Caesar"
This is absolutely horrible, all that good food they're throwing and wasting 😦
And heck yeah, Helen Mirren 🔥🔥
the wealthy waste food while the peasants starve in abject poverty, that the roman empire for ya!!!
I saw this when at the empire, Leicester square, when it came out. I was around 18.
I am 62 now. Wow.
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.
Ladies and Gentleman, I present to to you the newly patented DECAPITATOR
Malcoms face in the thumbnail 🤣 what any kid today would look like if you asked them if they wanted to see a decapitation 😂
This feels like something envisioned during a bad acid trip.
This set design, costume design, and cinematography is pretty amazing. I gotta actually watch this film now.
How is this allowed to stay on UA-cam? It’s so brutal im sick
Helen Mirren is that scene (she is the one in the magenta toga).
I don't know why but UA-cam decided to recommend this for me to watch...
This has to be the craziest scene in the whole movie. This whole maniacal contraption, like who thinks up this stuff?
In a film that was mainly a huge turkey, this is a bit of genius.
Its crazy that it took them that long to think, "alright this guy is just a bad apple. Time for a coup."
The actor bahind caligula is soo good
You can never go wrong with Malcolm McDowell.
there are time when i think that's a lot of directors/writers are just plain sadistic psychopaths...
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.
Clearly the template for Game Of Thrones. MM was perverse and impish as ever, in his role as Caligula.
@@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.
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.
What a sick piece of work.
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.
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.
good point
Those are eggs, not potatoes.
Not potatoes; eggs.
Aliens
I assumed they were throwing fruit.
No mobile phones, no social media, no internet. Just people living in the moment. I miss these days
Cool the first combine harvester
Do these machines have any realism to them? As in, did the romans use antyhing like this?
No 😂
My friends mother hired this on VHS for us when we were 12. A little inappropriate in retrospect.
I saw this in my teens too… the uncut full version!
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.
Alex DeLarge’s ancestor in action.
*"They're all homosexuals who have been castrated."*
That's like a computer CPU chip which has had the smoke liberated from it's epoxy prison.
What's strange is that the term "homosexual" didn't exist back then, they were referred to as Eunuchs by some.
@@austinwillcut4919 What's even stranger is that they are speaking English...
@@austinwillcut4919 because they assumed they didnt use them at all?
Geez! I just realized that Helen Mirren was in this film. Man O' man! Hubba hubba!
Why are they throwing potatoes? That's a new world
They probably figured everyone would have to suspend disbelief for the giant death wall anyway.
Its actually eggs and i think they thought if they got one they wouldnt die.
those appear to be potatoes 1500 years before they existed outside of south america
Is that Jason Miller who's gets beheaded 2nd?
This scene is insane
and sick
@@gdok6088 but mesmerizing too
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
There are no records of Caligula building something like this, although if he was able he probably would've had it built.
This is assuming the machine runs smoothly without any hiccup upon impact. Imagine when it's stuck halfway through the job.
Is that John Hurt as Caligula?
No is Malcom Macdowel Jhon Hurt is from I Claudius.
No, he's on the Nostromo wearing a mask
Alex in another timeline
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? 😅
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!
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!
Imagine being forced to wait and being utterly helpless to stop it knowing your death was certain
Didn’t Caligula used to do this on real life?
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
@@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.
@@flochforster7864 did he? And not with the wall. Obviously I knew that already.🙄 But with guards.
@@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.
@@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.
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Clockwork orange, great film.
That last line....if only all Rome had one neck....it really makes me realize how amazing "I, Claudius" really is.
I have not seen this film before and this clip made me think of Jodorowsky
They say time is the fire in which we burn!
Not in The Nexus. It’s nice there, me and my bunch of imaginary kids.
@@GizmoBeach Yes, come in. The eggs are on.
This movie is more accurate than Gladiator 2.
I love how the 'machine' chants "Rome , rome, rome , rome ..." all the time.
In Japan the title of the film is "Carigura". No joke..
Really?
That's interesting.
your having a raff
Not velly frunny
Why they threw eggs 🤔
0:44 is that Helen Mirren on a golden leash? Not enough comments about this.
I know! Seriously right? 🤤
Well, you have to understand they had no cable TV nor internet back then and so they had to do something for entertainment.
Just another day at the Mar-a-Lago Club...
Let’s take a moment to acknowledge how hot Helen Mirren was.
Inventions for the movie. No ancient writer ever mentioned anything like this.
Thank you. That was the first question that came into my mind. Did a machine like this ever exist? Did slaves power it? ... etc....
Hello, Jerry Jones. actually captivating video. thanks. :)
What's this movie about again?
Just in case you're just discovering this, no such killing machine existed
I can’t believe this is a mainstream movie lol a straight fucked up epic
It's...not? It's literally a porno. What the fuck have you been smoking?
@@hotelmario510 it was not made to be a pornographic film. It's an erotic historical drama. It was released mainstream.
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 !