Santa sangre
1989 · Movie · 123 min. · Mexico
A hallucinatory, dreamlike study of one individual's disturbed psyche; the line between truth and imagination blurs in this surreal universe. A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother. Against his will, he "becomes her arms" and the two undertake a grisly campaign of murder and revenge.
Direction Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cast Axel Jodorowsky · Blanca Guerra · Guy Stockwell · Thelma Tixou · Sabrina Dennison · Adan Jodorowsky · Faviola Elenka Tapia · Teo Jodorowsky
Soundtrack Simon Boswell
Screenplay Alejandro Jodorowsky · Claudio Argento · Roberto Leoni
Cinematography Daniele Nannuzzi
Original title Santa sangre
6.9
3K votes (FilmAffinity)
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