Shaun Costello
Birthday: 1944-01-01
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: 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.
Movies
The Love Bus
Dr. Scheisekopf (Jamie Gillis) advises patient Jennifer Jordan (aka Sarah Nicholson) to get away for...
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Pandora's Mirror
While browsing, a small antique shop, a large mirror catches Pandora's attention, seemingly casting ...
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Cheryl's Surrender
A gang of terrorists attack the American embassy in Labania and kidnap the ambassador, his wife and ...
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The Untamed Vixens
A man is kidnapped by a group of women and subjected to unspeakable tortures. However, he comes to e...
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Teenage Nurses
When Dr. Canute is appointed Director of Veterans Hospital, he decides that what the boys that came ...
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Joy Of Humiliation
Vanessa's psychologist husband recounts the kinky case history of an insatiable patient....
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The Fury in Alice
A domestic tragicomedy which follows a slutty housewife through her kinky extra marital affairs....
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The Porn Brokers
Quasi-documentary that looks at the sex industry in Europe. Features interviews with people who make...
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Venture Into the Bizzare
Two young girls in New York's Greenwich Village own a plaster-casting shop. One day a well-known Hol...
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The Two Lives of Jennifer
A writer finds out that his wife is leading a double life, which includes a second husband who lives...
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The Summer of Suzanne
When her parents leave for a trip to New York, a young Chicago girl decides to lose her virginity as...
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Sexual Customs in Scandinavia
A doctor outlines several cases involving sexual problems suffered by citizens of Scandinavia, and t...
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Feel
A "whitecoater" released long after the industry had dropped such requirements, nonetheless a requir...
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Cherry Hustlers
An accountant embezzles $80,000 from his company, in cahoots with a beautiful company executive. How...
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Private Practice
A sex therapist treats a pain addicted tramp who needs leather hooded brutes to bind and beat her to...
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Schoolgirl's Reunion
Two former classmates reunite at their school's athletic stadium to reminisce about their youth, but...
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Two Senoritas
A husband and wife are very upset when they learn their Friday night orgy venue has been sublet to t...
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Sweet Sexteen
It's Debbie's birthday, and her friends have hired a stud to deflower the young stud. The stud in q...
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Hymns from the Abyss
Images of moral panic, cult followings and the edges of madness from sex and death....
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Sensuous Vixens
Tina Russell (X Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame Member) leads us through the tumultuously se...
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Enrapture
In this erotic thriller an out of work actor is forced to take a job as a limousine driver. He drive...
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China Doll
Private investigator Mickey Finn searches for a missing china doll filled with $25,000 of Dilithium ...
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Midnight Desires
Four friends on a weekend getaway to Long Island are siting around a fireplace and each relates a se...
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Water Power
A mentally troubled man becomes a serial rapist and torturer due to the strong shock he suffers afte...
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Double Pleasure
When these Hollywood superstars double their pleasure, they’ll also double yours, because watching t...
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The Magical Ring
A beggar gives a woman a ring in appreciation for an act of kindness. The woman discovers that the r...
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Slave of Pleasure
Private detective, Dan McCord has been hired by Richard Anselm to find his beautiful wife, Eileen. A...
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Guess Who's Coming
A man and his wife invite a Royal couple over for dinner in the hopes of advancing the husband s car...
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A Taste Of Bette
When the leader of a sadistic sex cult is killed, its members have to choose a new person to lead th...
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Betrayed Teens
After her daughter is kidnapped by a gang of bikers, Helen hires a private detective to find her....
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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...
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Mistress Electra
While watching porn loops at a stag party given by his friend Harry, a husband is shocked to see his...
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Sensuous Fly Girls
When astronauts are flying to Jupiter, they are to get sexual relief from girls who accompany them t...
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Pen Pals
A group of pen-pals from across the country, who have never met before, gather in New York City for ...
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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 pur...
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The Tycoon's Daughter
Three friends kidnap the daughter of a millionaire and plan to ask for a big ransom. They hide out o...
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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 ...
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Honeymoon Suite
Three swinging young couples decide to marry one other and spend an erotic honeymoon at a fancy hote...
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Tortured Woman
Two young women come across secret papers having do with with foreign diplomats....
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The Travails of June
A reporter interviews June, a prostitute who has just been arrested, and she relates her tale of bei...
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The School for Sexual Arts
Female students at a "higher-learning" institution called The School for the Sexual Arts spend their...
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The Dark Side of Danielle
Young Danielle finds her parents' kinky sex diary, and as she reads it she starts imagining what it ...
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Sin of Lust
Carlotta and her husband are sex surrogates helping frustrated couples get off....
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Love in the Rain
A rainy day forces four women to stay indoors. Bored, they decide to liven up the day by calling up ...
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That Lady from Rio
Vanessa is the leader of an international organization of white slave traders who supply women to br...
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Teachers and Cream
"To Whom It May Concern, Good Bye!!! Yours Truly, Anonymous," reads the suicide note English teacher...
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The Story of Eloise
Zarryl Danuck, the head of Universal American Pictures, is in danger of being ousted from his positi...
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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 hel...
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Go Fly a Kite
A sexually frustrated housewife gets satisfied when she meets up with a group of swinging kite enthu...
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Lisa Meets Mr. Big
Young Lisa brings her fiancé home to meet her parents, who don't know he's black. They are shocked a...
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Kathy's Graduation Present
Young Kathy is an honors student who graduates from high school with straight A's. However, at her g...
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Girl Scout Cookies
When the mayor's campaign to drive prostitutes out of the city threatens to put a crimp in two hooke...
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Joe Rock Superstar
Marc Stevens plays Joe Cock, a Jim Morrison by way of David Bowie circa Ziggy Stardust vocalist whos...
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The Fire in Francesca
A private detective is hired by a Hollywood agent to find out who killed a beautiful young movie sta...
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Lip Service
Sidney Spelvin, a sexually frustrated fireman, complains to Dr. Cousins, a female psychiatrist, that...
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Tina Makes a Deal
When a customs search turns up a vial of coke hidden away in an outlaw pussy, Tina Makes a Deal. Wel...
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Dirty Susan
A private detective is hired to find a mysterious girl named Susan. He soon realizes that "Susan" is...
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More Than Sisters
A young woman has been experiencing terrifying nightmares set in an asylum. Her husband, powerless t...
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Baby Oil
American and Russian agents each vie to gain their respective nation control of the oil wells of Sex...
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Come And Be Purified
Charlatan priest Father Sexus encourages devoutly religious folks to shed their inhibitions and happ...
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Hotel Hooker
Pete supplies hotel guests with prostitutes to make their trips a bit more enjoyable....
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Lady on the Couch
It was shocking and unbelievable experience for Henry Totler. The girl up there in the stag film was...
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The Passions of Carol
Carol Scrooge, the curmudgeonly owner of a sleazy skin publication, insists that her employees work ...
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New York Construction Co.
A foreman is called back to his construction site on a Saturday morning. He goes into the bowels of ...
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