“ Brass mentioned: 'After numerous and fruitless negotiations which have adopted over time,
first with the Penthouse and then with other unclear individuals, to edit the fabric that I shot and which had been discovered within the Penthouse
archives, a model has been created on which I did not
take part and which I'm satisfied will not mirror my creative
imaginative and prescient. A model of Caligula was
proven in Cannes final week after a new editor was handed 96 hours of footage.
Instead - thanks partially to Penthouse magazine's Bob Guccione producing the film, and inserting footage of unsimulated penetrative
intercourse featuring porn stars - McDowell ended up being the face of
what many suppose is the worst movie ever made. So how did
the worst movie in the world come to be made - and remade?
Guccioni wished more sex than Brass was keen to put in, and grownup
film actors were actually delivered to the set at nights to shoot scenes which have been then spliced into
the unique. ”