Santa Sangre (English: Holy Blood) is a 1989 surrealist psychological horror film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and written by Jodorowsky along with Claudio Argento and Roberto Leoni. It stars Axel Jodorowsky, Adán Jodorowsky, Teo …

Santa Sangre: Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. With Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou. A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".

Aug 31, 2003 · To call “Santa Sangre” (1989) a horror film would be unjust to a film that exists outside all categories.

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A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms". A young man--starving, nearly catatonic and barely responsive--is confined in a sanitarium.

Santa sangre es una película mexicana de terror gore de 1989 escrita y dirigida por el chileno Alejandro Jodorowsky. El filme es famoso por su recargada mezcla de simbología mágica, referencias psicoanalíticas y profundo tono místico, por lo cual la misma se presta a un análisis filosófico-psicológico.

An armless woman drives her son to kill in Alejandro Jodorowsky's surreal shocker. As a boy, Fenix saw his father cut off his mother's arms, and the resulting trauma sent him to a mental hospital. When mom visits him years later, he escapes, but soon must satisfy her thirst for santa sangre ('holy blood').

Santa Sangre (1989) directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd. Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen… A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his mother – the leader of a strange religious cult – and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name. 122 mins More at IMDb TMDB.