Santa Sangre

1990 • 123 minutes

About this movie

In the 1970s, his legendary films EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN redefined movies as both art and entertainment while changing the face of cinema forever. And in 1989, visionary writer and director Alejandro Jodorowsky returned with his modern masterpiece. It is the story of a young circus performer, the crime of passion that shatters his soul, and the macabre journey back to the world of his armless mother, deaf mute lover, and murder. It is an odyssey of ecstasy and anguish, belief and blasphemy, beauty and madness. It is unlike any movie you have ever seen before or ever will. Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra and Guy Stockwell star in this epic of surreal genius, now fully restored and featuring more than five hours of exclusive Extras that reveal the mind behind one of the most provocative and unforgettable motion picture experiences of our time.

Ratings and reviews

This thing has it all. Midgets, chickens, coked up retards, black and white elephant funerals and so much more. This film is better than anything else that has ever existed. The lord god Almighty bows down before the awesome might and power that is this film. We humans are not worthy to gaze upon the merest of shadows cast by this, the greatest masterpiece that has ever existed.

What can you say? Jodorowski is the godfather of psychedelic, arthouse cinema. El Topo is still my favorite, though.

But it's as close as we can get from Jodorowsky.