Santa Sangre (1989)
Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen.
Starring Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
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.
Runtime: 123 min.
Rating: 7.3
DVD
Languages: English
Countries: Mexico
Genres: Fantasy,Horror,Mystery
Keywords: suicide,circus,mexico city,elephant,clown,funeral,stage show,surrealism,blood,violence,avant-garde,cult film,madness,shrine,mute girl,tattoed woman
Cast
Fenix
Concha
Orgo
The Tattooed Woman
Alma
Young Fenix
Young Alma
Pimp
Aladin
Rubi
Fat Prostitute (as Ma. De Jesus Aranzabal)
Monsignor
The Saint
Trini
Box-office Attendant (as Borolas)
Business man
Monsignor's Chauffeur
Monsignor's Secretary
Doctor (as Hector Ortega Gomez)
Orderly 1
Orderly 2
Soldier 1
Soldier 2
Wrestler 1
Wrestler 2
Wrestler 3
Beggar
Beggar