Santa Sangre

1989

Action / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller

31
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 88% · 43 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 25859 25.9K

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Plot summary

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.

Director

Alejandro Jodorowsky Photo
Alejandro Jodorowsky

Top cast

Jacobo Lieberman Photo
Jacobo Lieberman as Monsignor's Secretary
Adan Jodorowsky Photo
Adan Jodorowsky as Young Fenix
Héctor Ortega Photo
Héctor Ortega as Doctor
Thelma Tixou Photo
Thelma Tixou as The Tattooed Woman
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1.05 GB
1280*682
English 2.0
TV-G
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 3 min
Seeds 14
1.91 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
TV-G
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 3 min
Seeds 63

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Wuchak 5 / 10

_**Life is a colorful psychosexual circus in Mexico

_**Life is a colorful psychosexual circus in Mexico City**_ A man ends up in an asylum after a shocking experience as a boy in a traveling circus in Mexico. When he escapes he finds his maimed mother and falls under her negative influence. Guy Stockwell plays the grossly overweight circus owner. Released in 1989-1990, “Santa Sangre” (meaning “Holy Blood”) is a surreal circus fantasy made by cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who’s known for “El Topo” (1970) and “The Holy Mountain” (1973). His son, Axel, plays the protagonist here, Fenix. Surreal or not, I love circus/carnival-oriented flicks and this one works well in its bizarre way for the first half, but totally bogs down in the second. The colors are vibrant and there’s a lot of deep symbolism with a Christ figure, a giant snake and so on. The various women are displayed in a creative titillating manner (Thelma Tixou as the tattooed woman, Blanca Guerra as the lithe high wire artist, Sabrina Dennison as the innocent Alma and Gloriella as Rubi) and I suspect this is a key reason why a lot of guys hail the film. Unfortunately, the second half is dreadfully dull. Fenix doesn’t develop as a character in any attention-grabbing way and the story isn’t compelling, unless you find Fenix using his arms to help Mommy interesting. It’s still worth catching if you appreciate eccentric cult flicks that dare to be different, just be prepared for a tedious time in the second hour. The film runs 2 hours, 3 minutes, and was shot in Mexico City. GRADE: C
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Reviewed by Marwan-Bob 8 / 10

"you will never be free of me."

This is truly a shocking film crammed with bizarre and grotesque violence, Once again, Alejandro Jodorowsky has managed to come up with a film that defies Logic even as it defies description, All I can say is, if you have a chance to see this film, definitely do so.

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