The "plot", as you'd expect from a porno, is paper thin, border lining on non-existent. Caligola: Follia del potere (a sly reference to the original working title for D'Amato's 1981 exploitation film "Caligula: The Untold Story") is one of the many porno's that the king of sleaze produced throughout the course of the 90s.
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As you can imagine, after a string of disastrous films from this period and the increasing difficulty to find financing for any future horror films, the Italian horror industry closed its doors and the masters of sleaze and cheese found themselves either retiring, ala Lenzi, becoming TV directors in Italy, ala Fragasso, directing cheap DTV horror films, ala Mattei, or in Joe D'Amato's case, moving on to directing hardcore/softcore pornography, which leads us to the film in question. They are either considered so bad they are bad, or so bad they are good. These films, directed by the Italian horror regulars in the industry like Joe D'Amato, Umberto Lenzi, Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso, and even the Big Ape himself, George Eastman, are seldom looked at as underrated gems or misunderstood visions. The last days of the Italian exploitation industry were dark days indeed, bringing us such cinematic train wrecks as Frankenstein 2000 (Return from Death), Quest for the Mighty Sword (Ator III: The Hobgoblin), Black Demons (Demoni 3), Shocking Dark (Terminator 2), Metamorphosis (Re-Animator 2), Crawlers (Troll 3), Beyond Darkness (La Casa 5), and of course, the greatest bad movie of them all, Troll 2 (Troll 2). The budgets were smaller, live audio was used rather than dubbing all the sounds and dialogue in post-production, the casts featured less recognized Italian, and English speaking stars, usually opting for inexperienced actors who, combined with the struggles of reading scripts poorly translated from Italian into English, and working with directors and crews who could hardly speak English, gave very awkward, wooden performances, often riddled with line flubs or bad deliveries of dialogue which, as you'd expect, flew completely over the director's heads and the effects and props used were usually of a very poor quality. With only a handful of horror films being released around 1990-92, all of which were a serious drop in quality compared to what was being produced during the 70s and 80s. The 1990s spelled the end for the Italian horror/exploitation industry.
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