Salo Or Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom Apr 2026

★★★★ (but I will never watch it again)

are a serious student of film history, political theory, or the philosophy of evil. Avoid it if you: eat dinner while watching movies, have experienced trauma, or simply value joy. salo or salo or the 120 days of sodom

Pasolini transposes the Marquis de Sade’s infamous 18th-century novel (written in a prison cell) to the fascist puppet state of Salò, Italy, 1944. Four libertine masters—a Duke, a Bishop, a Magistrate, and a President—abduct eighteen young men and women. They take them to a isolated villa, where for 120 days, the teenagers are subjected to a systematic program of humiliation, ritualized depravity, and eventual torture and murder. ★★★★ (but I will never watch it again)