When Malcolm McDowell first heard that a new cut of Caligula was being worked on, he simply rolled his eyes. “That’s what I did,” he says. “Because I never, ever wanted to talk about that damn film ...

The salacious folly that was Caligula (1979) has long been consigned to the back alleys of movie lore, forgotten like the memory of a head trauma. It’s also, looking back, a unique fetus-in-a-jar ...