Weekly Comp - Caligula Blu-Ray - 02/05/2010

[iluvdvds@Cult Labs]

Hellooooooo!

Well it's sunday. And it's time for a weekly comp! This prize is awesome as well - it's none other than the notorious film:



And what's more it's on BLU-RAY!!!!!!!!!

Label: Arrow Video
Release date: 10th May 2010
Release type: Blu-ray
Certificate: 18
Running time: 156 minutes
Pricing: £19.99
Genre:
Director: Tinto Brass
Stars: Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren




THE ULTIMATE IN HIGH DEFINITION DECADENCE!

Caligula, one of the most notorious films in cinematic history, becomes the ultimate in high def decadence with Arrow Video’s release of Tinto Brass’ ludicrously opulent, multi-million dollar ‘porn epic’ as a spectacular two-disc Blu-ray edition, featuring the uncut version of the film in all its eye-opening glory.

Caligula – The Blu Edition comes complete with four alternate sleeves (including one especially commissioned for this release), a double-sided poster plus a special collector’s booklet.

Initially hauled over the coals (and drastically censored) in 1979 on the grounds that it was indecent and potentially obscene, almost 30 years later, in 2008, this uncut version of Caligula was finally granted an 18 Certificate by the BBFC. Notable for being the only major motion picture ever to star esteemed British actors of the calibre of Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren alongside scenes of extreme violence and explicit hardcore sex, Caligula is a true ‘porn epic', a veritable catalogue of depravity the likes of which have never been seen in one single film before or since.

A ridiculous and bombastic hymn to the decadence of the Roman Empire, this is definitely one movie that that has to be seen, if only to wonder, firstly, how the thing ever got off the ground, and secondly, how it was ever completed. Based on Suetonius's ‘Lives Of The Twelve Caesars' and scripted by celebrated author and historian Gore Vidal, the film was produced by ‘Penthouse' magazine publisher Bob Guccione, with the list of potential directors including the likes of John Huston and Nicolas Roeg. However, when Guccione chanced upon a preview screening of Tinto Brass's ‘Salon Kitty', he knew he had found the right man for the job. Unfortunately, Brass and Guccione's respective visions of what the film should be were worlds apart and no sooner had shooting started than the ‘artistic' bickering began with Vidal, Guccione and Brass all falling out with each other. Vidal was barred from the set and once principal photography was complete, Guccione banned Brass from the editing room and, after shooting extra footage of hardcore sex scenes, the ‘Penthouse' boss set about editing the film himself.

The result is the stuff of legend - an insane, pornographic orgy of a film that details the rise and fall of the titular Roman Emperor (brilliantly played by McDowell), his sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute (Mirren), and his spectacularly inventive ways of dealing with his enemies, all garnished with the totally inappropriate sexual rompings of a dozen or so Penthouse Pets. If nothing else, Caligula truly is cinematic madness on the grandest scale.

The two-disc Caligula – The Blu Edition (cert. 18) will be released on Blu-ray (£19.99) by Arrow Video on 10th May 2010. Special Features include: deleted and alternate scenes; theatrical trailers; North American bonus footage; behind the scenes footage; ‘The Making of Caligula’; ‘My Roman Holiday’ with John Steiner; ‘Caligula’s Pet: A Conversation with Lori Wagner’; ‘Tinto Brass: The Orgy of Power’; stills galleries; DVD-ROM content.




So, that's all the info, but how do you win this prize?!

Simple!

As you probably know by now, this blu-ray got a very special treatment in which fans of the film (you guys) could submit names for what this edition should be called! How awesome is that?!

So, playing on that, this week you have to come up with a make-believe edition of a film. So if for example The Exorcist was released it would be called 'The. [Enter funny pun here].Edition'.

Got it?

The funniest three will each win a copy of this superb blu-ray! What could be easier!

Just post your entries below - as many as you wish (the more times you enter, the greater your chance of winning).

Next sunday, I'll pop the funniest editions into a hat and randomly pick 3 winners!

Woo!

So, get those entries coming guys!

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

Kyle

[darthelvis]

Good Luck with this guys and gals!

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

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