09-05-2013, 06:18 AM
MisterLove Wrote:Extremely disturbing, especially the final sequence, but not gratuitous. Salo is a political movie with big brains. Pasolini wants to show us the true face of fascism and how ugly and obscene it really is.
I never found Salo "scary", but I did find it really morbid and awful. It's the ultimate filmic representation of fascism at its very sickest, but it never scared me in the way that a horror film typically would.