"Let them hate me, so long as they fear me."
This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and females playing male characters and vice-versa.
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Milla Jovovich
Druscilla
Helen Mirren
Tiberia
Gerard Butler
Prefect Cassius Chaerea
Benicio del Toro
Macro
Barbara Bouchet
Caesonia
Karen Black
Agrippina
Gore Vidal
Self
Michelle Phillips
Messalina
Glenn Shadix
Claudius
Mia Moretti
Priestes of Isis
An unassuming gentleman finds himself deep in a kerfuffle after moving to the same street as a mysterious neighbor
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