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(1989)
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Cast
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Axel Jodorowsky | ... |
Fenix
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Concha
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Guy Stockwell | ... |
Orgo
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Thelma Tixou | ... |
The Tattooed Woman
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Sabrina Dennison | ... |
Alma
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Adan Jodorowsky | ... |
Young Fenix
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Faviola Elenka Tapia | ... |
Young Alma
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Teo Jodorowsky | ... |
Pimp
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María de Jesús Aranzabal | ... |
Fat Prostitute
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Jesús Juárez | ... |
Aladin
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Monsignor
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Gloria Contreras | ... |
Rubi
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S. Rodriguez | ... |
The Saint
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Zonia Rangel Mora | ... |
Trini
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Joaquín García Vargas | ... |
Box-office Attendant
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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. Written by Marty Cassady <martyc@vt.edu>
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
27 June 1990 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Holy Blood See more »Filming Locations:
Estudios Churubusco Azteca, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, MexicoBox Office
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[Fenix crouches naked atop a tree trunk in his barren asylum room]
Doctor: [enters along with orderlies pushing a food cart] Fenix. Please...
[offers him a normal meal]
Doctor: Eat like a human being.
[pause]
Doctor: [puts the tray back down and offers him a raw fish]
Fenix: [howls]
[jumps down and grabs the fish]
Fenix: Grr!
[...]
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The movie Fenix is watching is the 1933 classic The Invisible Man starring Claude Rains. See more »Goofs
When the elephant is dying, all the close-ups of its trunk bleeding show the trunk to be clean. All the long shots of the elephant show it's trunk covered in blood. See more »Quotes
[first lines][Fenix crouches naked atop a tree trunk in his barren asylum room]
Doctor: [enters along with orderlies pushing a food cart] Fenix. Please...
[offers him a normal meal]
Doctor: Eat like a human being.
[pause]
Doctor: [puts the tray back down and offers him a raw fish]
Fenix: [howls]
[jumps down and grabs the fish]
Fenix: Grr!
[...]
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After a long absence Jodorowsky returned with this surreal but more accessible offering than his earlier work, focusing on a circus and starring Jodorowsky's son and grandson as Fenix, a young boy who witnesses his father cut off the arms of his mother before committing suicide. Then we see Fenix grown up and finding his mother again, and she uses him as her slave, using his hands for her various needs and also to commit murder. There are the trademark Jodorowsky images in parts with deformed people on a trip out from an asylum, and powerful scenes like the elephant being savaged for food. But it somehow has a more warmer and humble feel to it than his previous work.