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Shaun Costello
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.
As director
Writing for Time
Hot Dreams
Heaven's Touch
Mistress Electra
Pandora's Mirror
Beauty
Prisoner of Pleasure
Dracula Exotica
New York Construction Co.
Afternoon Delights
The Two Lives of Jennifer
More Than Sisters
Sunny
Daughters of Discipline
Slave of Pleasure
Fiona on Fire
Schoolgirl's Reunion
Betrayed Teens
The Fire in Francesca
Dirty Susan
Water Power
Midnight Desires
The Untamed Vixens
Dominatrix Without Mercy
The Fury in Alice
Sensuous Fly Girls
She's No Angel
The Travails of June
The Summer of Suzanne
Tortured Woman
As actor
Hymns from the Abyss
Enrapture
Double Pleasure
Mistress Electra
Pandora's Mirror
New York Construction Co.
The Two Lives of Jennifer
More Than Sisters
Slave of Pleasure
A Taste of Bette
Daughters of Discipline
Joy of Humiliation
Cherry Hustlers
Schoolgirl's Reunion
Betrayed Teens
The Fire in Francesca
Dirty Susan
The Untamed Vixens
The Fury in Alice
Venture Into the Bizzare
The Summer of Suzanne
Midnight Desires
Water Power
Sensuous Fly Girls
She's No Angel
Tortured Woman
The Travails of June
The Dark Side of Danielle
That Lady from Rio
The Story of Eloise