Santa Sangre
(1989)
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Santa Sangre
(1989)
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Axel Jodorowsky | ... |
Fenix
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| Blanca Guerra | ... |
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
(as Ma. De Jesus Aranzabal)
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Jesús Juárez | ... |
Aladin
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| Sergio Bustamante | ... |
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
(as Borolas)
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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>
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.