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Shaun Costello

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Shaun Costello began directing for "loops" (10-minute scenes shown in coin-operated viewers in adult theaters) in NYC in the early 1970s, and soon was directing (and acting in) full porn movies and other grindhouse "roughies" shown in Times Square's 42nd Street adult theaters. Costello took work where he could get it, often working for the Mob, who owned many adult theaters and distribution, and working under different aliases for different theaters so that no one (at the time) knew that he was his own competition. Eventually moving on to a mainstream documentary career, Costello written and directed grindhouse movies - rough and violent and reflecting of their times - have seen a resurgence as the 2010's have seen these movies be remastered and re-released and often seen for the first time in decades. Anyone interested in the history of American porn or grindhouse/exploitation theater of the late 1960s and 1970s will likely have encountered Shaun Costello's work, often unknowingly due to his prolific use of aliases.

01-01-1944

Birthday

Capricorn

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

68

Total Films

Lars Tobin, Eclair von Ott, Otto Von Lickit, Harry Gordon

Also known as (male)

The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

68 Works

producer

36 Works

director

184 Works

writer

51 Works

other

33 Works

Hymns from the Abyss

Hymns from the Abyss

Images of moral panic, cult followings and the edges of madness from sex and death.
0.0

Year:

2021

Enrapture

Enrapture

In this erotic thriller an out of work actor is forced to take a job as a limousine driver. He drives for a beautiful woman and her husband who has ties to the mob. When the girl turns up dead, he is accused of her murder.
3.0

Year:

1990

Double Pleasure

Double Pleasure

When these Hollywood superstars double their pleasure, they’ll also double yours, because watching this unusual fetish on your home screen can be incredibly erotic. All the greats are into it!
0.0

Year:

1982

Mistress Electra

Mistress Electra

While watching porn loops at a stag party given by his friend Harry, a husband is shocked to see his wife performing hardcore sex in one of them. He hires a private detective to find out what's going on.
0.0

Year:

1982

Pandora's Mirror

Pandora's Mirror

While out for lunch with a friend, Pandora feels an unexplained compulsion to visit a small antique shop. While browsing, a large mirror catches her attention, seemingly casting a spell over her. Despite warnings by the shop keeper to be wary of its enveloping powers of sensuality, Pandora cannot overcome her strange desire to gaze into it, visiting the store again and again. Each time learning a bit more about the mirror’s debauched past and corrupting powers – a sensation Pandora is soon a slave to…
7.0

Year:

1981

New York Construction Co.

New York Construction Co.

A foreman is called back to his construction site on a Saturday morning. He goes into the bowels of the building to a repair a power failure — and explore some other bowels as well.
0.0

Year:

1980

More Than Sisters

More Than Sisters

A young woman has been experiencing terrifying nightmares set in an asylum. Her husband, powerless to help her, enlists the aid of a detective to investigate her past, hoping for a clue to her present visions, but what he uncovers is more shocking than anyone could imagine.
7.7

Year:

1979

The Two Lives of Jennifer

The Two Lives of Jennifer

A writer finds out that his wife is leading a double life, which includes a second husband who lives on the other side of town. He presents this story to his editor, who is so intrigued by it that she takes her male secretary along and sets out to find out whether the writer's wife is actually doing what he says she is.
0.0

Year:

1979

Slave of Pleasure

Slave of Pleasure

Private detective, Dan McCord has been hired by Richard Anselm to find his beautiful wife, Eileen. As he digs into the case, he discovers that she might have been kidnapped by white slavers.
6.5

Year:

1978

A Taste Of Bette

A Taste Of Bette

When the leader of a sadistic sex cult is killed, its members have to choose a new person to lead them.
2.0

Year:

1978

Daughters of Discipline

Daughters of Discipline

A young woman gets involved in a sex-and-death cult, and finds out that she is slated to be the cult's next victim.
3.0

Year:

1978

The Fire in Francesca

The Fire in Francesca

A private detective is hired by a Hollywood agent to find out who killed a beautiful young movie star.
0.0

Year:

1977

Joy Of Humiliation

Joy Of Humiliation

Vanessa's psychologist husband recounts the kinky case history of an insatiable patient.
7.5

Year:

1977

Cherry Hustlers

Cherry Hustlers

An accountant embezzles $80,000 from his company, in cahoots with a beautiful company executive. However, he starts worrying about getting caught and lets his partner know that he wants to stop. She, however, doesn't want to dry up her cash cow, so she finds some "persuasive" ways to convince her partner to keep up his end of the deal.
0.0

Year:

1977

Betrayed Teens

Betrayed Teens

After her daughter is kidnapped by a gang of bikers, Helen hires a private detective to find her.
1.0

Year:

1977

Schoolgirl's Reunion

Schoolgirl's Reunion

Two former classmates reunite at their school's athletic stadium to reminisce about their youth, but the discussion, and ensuing flashbacks, soon take them back to shocking and perverse memories.
7.0

Year:

1977

Dirty Susan

Dirty Susan

A private detective is hired to find a mysterious girl named Susan. He soon realizes that "Susan" is the girl he spent the previous night with, and with whom he had the best sex of his life. His investigation leads him into a variety of sexual situations.
0.0

Year:

1977

The Dark Side of Danielle

The Dark Side of Danielle

Young Danielle finds her parents' kinky sex diary, and as she reads it she starts imagining what it must have been like to do the kinds of things her parents were doing
0.0

Year:

1976

Tortured Woman

Tortured Woman

Two young women come across secret papers having do with with foreign diplomats.
0.0

Year:

1976

Water Power

Water Power

A mentally troubled man becomes a serial rapist and torturer due to the strong shock he suffers after witnessing the performance of an enema in a brothel.
5.3

Year:

1976

That Lady from Rio

That Lady from Rio

Vanessa is the leader of an international organization of white slave traders who supply women to brothels all over the world. Her mob is expanding and her number one henchman has plans for taking over the whole operation. She has to duck the law as well as her enemies to stay on top of things, one of her favorite things is Jamie Gillis. Vanessa and Jamie light up the screen with their lovemaking. Will Vanessa keep her empire of lust? Or, will she be swallowed up by the mob with the cops not too far behind?
0.0

Year:

1976

The Fury in Alice

The Fury in Alice

A domestic tragicomedy which follows a slutty housewife through her kinky extra marital affairs.
0.0

Year:

1976

Girl Scout Cookies

Girl Scout Cookies

When the mayor's campaign to drive prostitutes out of the city threatens to put a crimp in two hookers' livelihoods, one of them gets the bright idea of dressing up like a Girl Scout and selling her "cookies" door to door.
4.0

Year:

1976

The Story of Eloise

The Story of Eloise

Zarryl Danuck, the head of Universal American Pictures, is in danger of being ousted from his position. Can his niece Eloise, newly-arrived in New York City, reverse his studio's failing fortunes as their new "All-American Girl" movie star?
0.0

Year:

1976

Sensuous Fly Girls

Sensuous Fly Girls

When astronauts are flying to Jupiter, they are to get sexual relief from girls who accompany them to the planet.
7.0

Year:

1976

Midnight Desires

Midnight Desires

Four friends on a weekend getaway to Long Island are siting around a fireplace and each relates a sexual fantasy that he or she has had for a long time but kept secret.
3.0

Year:

1976

She's No Angel

She's No Angel

In order to cheat her out of her inheritance, a young girl's parents have her locked up in a mental institution.
5.0

Year:

1976

The Untamed Vixens

The Untamed Vixens

A man is kidnapped by a group of women and subjected to unspeakable tortures. However, he comes to enjoy them.
0.0

Year:

1976

The Summer of Suzanne

The Summer of Suzanne

When her parents leave for a trip to New York, a young Chicago girl decides to lose her virginity as soon as possible, and enlists the help of her wild older sister to achieve her goal.
0.0

Year:

1976

The Travails of June

The Travails of June

A reporter interviews June, a prostitute who has just been arrested, and she relates her tale of being kidnapped by a criminal gang, drugged and forced to have sex with powerful politicians in order to set them up for blackmail.
4.0

Year:

1976

Venture Into the Bizzare

Venture Into the Bizzare

Two young girls in New York's Greenwich Village own a plaster-casting shop. One day a well-known Hollywood actor walks into their shop and asks if they can make a plaster replica of his penis. When he later brings a friend of his, also a well-known actor, in to get his 'member' replicated, the girls hatch an ingenious plan to make a lot of money by making replicas of stars' penises, then blackmailing them. However, things don't turn out exactly the way they planned.
10.0

Year:

1976

Cheryl's Surrender

Cheryl's Surrender

A gang of terrorists attack the American embassy in Labania and kidnap the ambassador, his wife and his secretary.
0.0

Year:

1975

Kathy's Graduation Present

Kathy's Graduation Present

Young Kathy is an honors student who graduates from high school with straight A's. However, at her graduation party her friends--who know that she is a virgin--decide to give her the kind of "final exam" that she wasn't counting on.
0.0

Year:

1975

China Doll

China Doll

Private investigator Mickey Finn searches for a missing china doll filled with $25,000 of Dilithium crystals. Notable as Vanessa del Rio's first movie.
10.0

Year:

1975

Baby Oil

Baby Oil

American and Russian agents each vie to gain their respective nation control of the oil wells of Sexalvania. However, the wells only produce baby oil.
0.0

Year:

1975

Gladys and Her All Girl Band

Gladys and Her All Girl Band

Two porno actors on the run audition in drag for a rock band and actually get the gig. They are pursued by a police sergeant for their lewd film exploits.
0.0

Year:

1975

Lisa Meets Mr. Big

Lisa Meets Mr. Big

Young Lisa brings her fiancé home to meet her parents, who don't know he's black. They are shocked and servants appalled, but he helps her mom feel better, and Lisa satisfies her dad.
0.0

Year:

1975

The Passions of Carol

The Passions of Carol

Carol Scrooge, the curmudgeonly owner of a sleazy skin publication, insists that her employees work on Christmas. However, on Christmas eve, Miss Scrooge is visited by three ghosts, each of whom shows her a different vision of Christmas, from Carol's lurid past of sexually manipulating her childhood friends to the meager Christmas celebrations of her present-day employee, Bob Hatchet and his wife, to a terrifying and sleazy vision of Christmas yet to come; each visit is infused with a barrel of laughs and a valuable lesson about the importance of giving and holiday spirit.
5.0

Year:

1975

Two Senoritas

Two Senoritas

A husband and wife are very upset when they learn their Friday night orgy venue has been sublet to two women from South America. They decide that the best course of action is to just go over, walk in, and get it on, hoping that the new residents will think it’s just an old American custom.
0.0

Year:

1975

Hotel Hooker

Hotel Hooker

Pete supplies hotel guests with prostitutes to make their trips a bit more enjoyable.
0.0

Year:

1975

Private Practice

Private Practice

A sex therapist treats a pain addicted tramp who needs leather hooded brutes to bind and beat her to get off.
0.0

Year:

1975

Sin of Lust

Sin of Lust

Carlotta and her husband are sex surrogates helping frustrated couples get off.
0.0

Year:

1975

The School for Sexual Arts

The School for Sexual Arts

Female students at a "higher-learning" institution called The School for the Sexual Arts spend their time closely studying the male body and learning how best to use their own bodies to bring the male form to life.
1.8

Year:

1975

The Hardy Girls

The Hardy Girls

An episodic journey into the sexual fantasies of Hardy Harrison.
0.0

Year:

1974

The Love Bus

The Love Bus

Dr. Scheisekopf (Jamie Gillis) advises patient Jennifer Jordan (aka Sarah Nicholson) to get away for the weekend. When the bus she travels on crashes, passengers take refuge at crazy Sonny Landham’s country house where all manner of lewd hook-ups occur.
0.0

Year:

1974

Come Fly with Us

Come Fly with Us

A hard and penetrating look into the lives of gorgeous stewardesses.
0.0

Year:

1974

Teenage Nurses

Teenage Nurses

When Dr. Canute is appointed Director of Veterans Hospital, he decides that what the boys that came back from Vietnam need is not Bob Hope to entertain them, but they need girls..nurses…Teenage Nurses!
0.0

Year:

1974

Lady on the Couch

Lady on the Couch

It was shocking and unbelievable experience for Henry Totler. The girl up there in the stag film was his wife, and all his friends were watching her in a shameless sex act with another man and another woman! Henry hired a hard driving detective to find out all about his wife, Maggie.
6.0

Year:

1974

Pen Pals

Pen Pals

A group of pen-pals from across the country, who have never met before, gather in New York City for a weekend of fun and sex.
3.0

Year:

1974

Lip Service

Lip Service

Sidney Spelvin, a sexually frustrated fireman, complains to Dr. Cousins, a female psychiatrist, that his wife will only have sex in the missionary position. That doesn’t please Sidney because he’s learned (from various gurus) about 197 other ways to bring a woman to orgasm. Interested in those 197 other ways, Dr. Cousins quickly cajoles Sidney into demonstrating those techniques on her, for "clinical purposes" only, right there in her office. Oh, those wacky porno shrinks!
0.0

Year:

1974

The Tycoon's Daughter

The Tycoon's Daughter

Three friends kidnap the daughter of a millionaire and plan to ask for a big ransom. They hide out on the farm of a family in the backwoods, and find that they're in for more than they bargained for.
2.0

Year:

1973

Go Fly a Kite

Go Fly a Kite

A sexually frustrated housewife gets satisfied when she meets up with a group of swinging kite enthusiasts.
0.0

Year:

1973

Honeymoon Suite

Honeymoon Suite

Three swinging young couples decide to marry one other and spend an erotic honeymoon at a fancy hotel.
8.0

Year:

1973

Sexual Freedom in the Ozarks

Sexual Freedom in the Ozarks

A foursome is stranded in the woods of Arkansas after a plane crash so they split up to look for help.
0.0

Year:

1973

Sweet Sexteen

Sweet Sexteen

It's Debbie's birthday, and her friends have hired a stud to deflower the young stud. The stud in questions frets ahead of time over whether he'll be asked to do anything kinky.
0.0

Year:

1973

Come And Be Purified

Come And Be Purified

Charlatan priest Father Sexus encourages devoutly religious folks to shed their inhibitions and happily participate in assorted wild carnal activities of licentious delight.
5.0

Year:

1973

Teachers and Cream

Teachers and Cream

"To Whom It May Concern, Good Bye!!! Yours Truly, Anonymous," reads the suicide note English teacher Mr. Boynton writes and tapes to his chest. Dejected because he’s going to lose his job for moonlighting in porno flicks, he also wears Groucho Marx glasses (you know, with the big nose and fake moustache) which, somehow, is necessary apparel for someone about to jump off a New York City bridge. But before he leaps, he is rescued by a student of his named Nancy and Miss Crabtree, the Phys. Ed. teacher. As thanks for saving him, the gals go with him to "an editing room" and double-team him.
0.0

Year:

1973

Tina Makes a Deal

Tina Makes a Deal

When a customs search turns up a vial of coke hidden away in an outlaw pussy, Tina Makes a Deal. Well... actually, Linda makes the deal. We haven’t the slightest idea who Tina might be. Linda works for hippie guru Timothy Bleary, whose drug smuggling operation relies on bribing law enforcement with sex. It works extremely well.
0.0

Year:

1973

Joe Rock Superstar

Joe Rock Superstar

Marc Stevens plays Joe Cock, a Jim Morrison by way of David Bowie circa Ziggy Stardust vocalist whose claim to fame is his uncanny ability to get it up on stage.
0.0

Year:

1973

Guess Who's Coming

Guess Who's Coming

A man and his wife invite a Royal couple over for dinner in the hopes of advancing the husband s career...going as far as having their friends Tom and Bonnie pose as butler and maid! Ms. Spelvin pulls off a hilarious British accent and gets everyone off.
0.0

Year:

1973

The Porn Brokers

The Porn Brokers

Quasi-documentary that looks at the sex industry in Europe. Features interviews with people who make or take part in pornographic films, publish sex magazines, or supply erotic stills, in Britain, the Scandinavian countries and Germany. Also shows two blue movies being made.
6.5

Year:

1973

Forced Entry

Forced Entry

A crazed Vietnam vet hunts down and kills women.
5.1

Year:

1973

Sexual Customs in Scandinavia

Sexual Customs in Scandinavia

A doctor outlines several cases involving sexual problems suffered by citizens of Scandinavia, and the cases are re-enacted for the education of the audience.
0.0

Year:

1972

Selling It

Selling It

0.0

Year:

1972

Love in the Rain

Love in the Rain

A rainy day forces four women to stay indoors. Bored, they decide to liven up the day by calling up some male friends to have sex with them.
0.0

Year:

1971

The Magical Ring

The Magical Ring

A beggar gives a woman a ring in appreciation for an act of kindness. The woman discovers that the ring is actually a magic amulet that can bring all her sexual fantasies to life.
3.0

Year:

1971

Feel

Feel

A "whitecoater" released long after the industry had dropped such requirements, nonetheless a requirement for Tina Russell fans and those interested in early examples of the golden age.
4.0

Year:

1971

Sensuous Vixens

Sensuous Vixens

Tina Russell (X Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame Member) leads us through the tumultuously sexy New York City searching for modeling opportunities. After a series of long days and no results, she takes an offer to model in some "artistic photographs." When she arrives, she quickly learns what art means in the shady underworld of Manhattan. Tina quickly moves from tame, softcore photography to hardcore fuck films, embracing her pornographic urges while feeding her lust for the camera. Sensuous Vixens is the classic tale of a good girl releasing the nympho beast inside while exploring her own sexual urges.
0.0

Year:

1971