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Santa sangre
Santa sangre
8.1
/10
3,420 Ratings

SANTA SANGRE

Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Mexico, 1989
Avant-Garde, Horror, Fantasy, Cult

Synopsis

In Mexico, the traumatized son of a knife-thrower and a trapeze artist bonds grotesquely with his now-armless mother.

Synopsis

In Mexico, the traumatized son of a knife-thrower and a trapeze artist bonds grotesquely with his now-armless mother.

Our take

Cult auteur Alejandro Jodorowsky turned up at the Cannes film festival in 1989 with something refreshingly new: a psychedelic, psychological, and time-shifting horror story. Santa Sangre explores the extreme (yes: perverse) ties between a boy and his mother with macabre, Fellini-esque verve.