Movies Munch on Instagram: "Pier Paolo Pasolini, the director of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, was brutally murdered in 1975, before the film's release. Officially, 17-year-old Pino Pelosi confessed to killing him after a sexual encounter gone wrong, but decades later he recanted, claiming a group of men carried out the attack and forced him to take the blame. Many people suspected this was not the full story as the film was intensely controversial, depicting torture, sadism, fascist violence