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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) feat. Zoë Rose Smith

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4.7931 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Wipe that shit-eating grin off your face and heed *all* of the content warnings (seriously), because we're discussing Pier Paolo Pasolini's notorious anti-fascist 1975 film 'Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom'. Tagging in for the conversation is Zoë Rose Smith, the co-host of the Tainted Love podcast!

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0:00.0

You have to control yourself.

0:10.0

You have to control yourself. And welcome back to horror queers.

0:25.9

We're talking nothing is more contagious than evil.

0:30.0

We're talking nothing's worse than breath without odor.

0:33.9

And we're talking, don't you see we want to kill you a thousand times to the limits of eternity, if eternity could have limits. And I'm Joe. And I'm Trace, and we're talking shit. Shit, a large portion of shit. Joe, I'm not going to lie. I had nothing's more contagious than evil as my pick. And I was like, surely, out of all the things in this movie, Joe is not going to pick that thing. And it was the first thing out of your lips. So, uh, there we go. What can I say? We think alike. We certainly do. But yes, everyone, we are discussing Pierre Paolo Pasolini's Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom. And if you've never heard of this movie, I just, I feel like

1:12.3

right at the bat, we have to give every single content warning imaginable for this film.

1:17.2

It is notorious for a reason. And, yeah, I mean, if you can name it, it's probably in this

1:25.3

movie. I will say, with the exception of animal cruelty, we don't have any animals in this movie,

1:30.3

so I don't think we're doing that.

1:32.3

But yeah, and folks, sometimes we can be a little bit glib with the content warnings aside

1:36.7

from things like sexual assault, but like seriously.

1:41.2

He did this warning because outside of animal abuse, this movie quite literally has everything.

1:47.7

But I will say if you've heard of this movie, you know its reputation and you are very wary

1:51.3

about watching it and you haven't watched it before listening to this. I would still recommend

1:55.4

listening to this because we're going to go through a bunch of stuff. Hopefully it's not as

1:58.6

difficult to hear about as it is to watch.

2:01.9

But, yeah, that's, that's it.

2:04.1

So, you've been warned.

2:05.6

And if you watch this for this podcast, we're sorry.

2:11.1

Maybe.

2:13.5

Joe, before we get any further into this, I do want to invite our guests because I feel like we have a lot.

2:17.4

We're all going to have a lot of things to say about this movie.

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