Shaun Costello

Known for DirectingBorn 1944-01-01Died 2023-07-05The 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Mistress Electra

Prisoner of Pleasure

That Lady from Rio

The Story of Eloise

Hotel Hooker

Teenage Nurses

Go Fly a Kite

Tina Makes a Deal

Maxines' Dating Service

Selling It

Love in the Rain

Venture Into the Bizzare

China Doll

The Untamed Vixens

French Schoolgirls

The Joyriders

Lip Service

Teachers and Cream

Ozark Sex Fiend

Double Pleasure

Joy of Humiliation

Beauty

New York Construction Co.

The Two Lives of Jennifer

Cherry Hustlers

The Fire in Francesca

Sensuous Fly Girls

Private Practice

Kathy's Graduation Present

Baby Oil

Come Fly with Us

Sweet Sexteen

Guess Who's Coming

Joe Rock Superstar

Sensuous Vixens

More Than Sisters

The Fury in Alice

The Summer of Suzanne

Cheryl's Surrender

Honeymoon Suite

She's No Angel

Pandora's Mirror

Slave of Pleasure

Schoolgirl's Reunion

Dirty Susan

Tortured Woman

Two Senoritas

Lisa Meets Mr. Big