Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1944-01-01
Day of Death
2023-07-05
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Shaun Costello
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.
Filmography (68)
Hymns from the Abyss
2021
Enrapture
1990Double Pleasure
1982
Mistress Electra
1982
Pandora's Mirror
1981
New York Construction Co.
1980
More Than Sisters
1979
The Two Lives of Jennifer
1979
Slave of Pleasure
1978
A Taste Of Bette
1978
Daughters of Discipline
1978
The Fire in Francesca
1977
Joy Of Humiliation
1977
Cherry Hustlers
1977
