Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom1976

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Horror Vault's take

Pier Paolo Pasolini's notorious 1975 provocation transposes the Marquis de Sade's 18th-century text to the final days of Mussolini's Italy, where four powerful men — a duke, a bishop, a magistrate, and a president — seal themselves away with a group of captive teenagers in a remote palazzo. What unfolds is a systematic, ritualized descent into degradation, designed by its architects as an exercise in absolute dominion over other human beings. Pasolini wields extreme content not for shock alone but as a savage allegory for fascist power and its capacity to reduce people to objects. It remains one of the most debated and difficult works in world cinema.

Content: Graphic Sexual Violence, Sexual Abuse Of Minors, Torture, Coprophagia, Extreme Degradation And Humiliation, Graphic Violence, Nudity