Shaun Costello

Director · 1944 – 2023 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

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.

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Movie3.8
Thriller
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.
Enrapture
1990 · 4 votes
Movie7.0
ComedyFantasy
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.
The Love Bus
1974 · 1 votes
Movie7.0
FantasyHorror
While browsing, a small antique shop, a large mirror catches Pandora's attention, seemingly casting a spell of sensuality over her.
Pandora's Mirror
1981 · 5 votes
Movie5.4
HorrorCrime
A crazed Vietnam vet hunts down and kills women.
Forced Entry
1973 · 17 votes
Movie7.5
A gang of terrorists attack the American embassy in Labania and kidnap the ambassador, his wife and his secretary.
Cheryl's Surrender
1975 · 2 votes
Movie9.0
A man is kidnapped by a group of women and subjected to unspeakable tortures. However, he comes to enjoy them.
The Untamed Vixens
1976 · 1 votes
Movie10.0
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!
Teenage Nurses
1974 · 1 votes
Movie8.3
Vanessa's psychologist husband recounts the kinky case history of an insatiable patient.
Joy of Humiliation
1977 · 3 votes
Movie7.5
A domestic tragicomedy which follows a slutty housewife through her kinky extra marital affairs.
The Fury in Alice
1976 · 2 votes
Movie6.5
Documentary
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.
The Porn Brokers
1973 · 5 votes
Movie10.0
Selling It
1972 · 1 votes
Movie9.5
Comedy
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.
Venture Into the Bizzare
1976 · 2 votes
Movie8.0
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.
The Two Lives of Jennifer
1979 · 2 votes
Movie7.5
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.
The Summer of Suzanne
1976 · 2 votes
Movie7.0
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.
Sexual Customs in Scandinavia
1972 · 1 votes
Movie5.5
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.
Feel
1971 · 2 votes
Movie8.0
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.
Cherry Hustlers
1977 · 1 votes
Movie8.0
A sex therapist treats a pain addicted tramp who needs leather hooded brutes to bind and beat her to get off.
Private Practice
1975 · 1 votes
Movie7.0
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.
Schoolgirl's Reunion
1977 · 3 votes
Movie7.0
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.
Two Senoritas
1975 · 1 votes
Movie8.0
Comedy
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.
Sweet Sexteen
1973 · 1 votes
Movie8.0
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.
Sensuous Vixens
1971 · 1 votes
Movie9.5
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.
China Doll
1975 · 2 votes