Santa Sangre (1989) ( Holy Blood )

Santa Sangre (1989) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Alternate Title: Holy Blood
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby TrueHD )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby TrueHD )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
123 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1989 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Mexico ( Latin America, Mexico )

Directed By:
Alejandro Jodorowsky

Written By:
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Roberto Leoni

Actors:
Axel Jodorowsky ..... Fenix
Blanca Guerra ..... Concha
Guy Stockwell ..... Orgo
Thelma Tixou ..... The Tattooed Woman
Sabrina Dennison ..... Alma
Adan Jodorowsky ..... Young Fenix
Faviola Elenka Tapia ..... Young Alma
Teo Jodorowsky ..... Pimp
María de Jesús Aranzabal ..... Fat Prostitute (as Ma. De Jesus Aranzabal)
Jesús Juárez ..... Aladin
Sergio Bustamante ..... Monsignor
Gloria Contreras ..... Rubi
S. Rodriguez ..... The Saint
Zonia Rangel Mora ..... Trini
Joaquín García Vargas ..... Box-office Attendant (as Borolas)

Synopsis:

Alejandro Jodorowsky writes and directs this late 1980s horror following circus performer Felix (Adan Jodorowsky/Axel Jodorowsky) whose traumatic childhood has left him mentally disturbed. As a boy, Felix witnessed his father cutting off the arms of his mother, Concha (Blanca Guerra), and he has since spent years in an asylum. Upon his return to the now deranged Concha, Felix has to do her bidding. This involves murdering every woman with whom he comes into contact. When Concha orders Felix to kill Alma (Sabrina Dennison), his childhood sweetheart, he attempts to resist.

Circus horrors cross over into the mundane world in this terrifying, psychedelic film from Alejandro Jodorowsky, the man who brought you the infamous El Topo. Fenix (Adan Jodorowsky, the director's son) is the son of a circus strongman (Guy Stockwell) and an aerialist (Blanca Guerra). One night, the mother sees from her high perspective that her husband is fooling around with the tattooed lady. She later confronts him and throws acid on him in retaliation. He saws off her arms in return and kills himself. Fenix, witness to all this, runs away raving. Years later, Fenix (now played by older brother Axel Jodorowski) is released from an insane asylum by his armless mother. She wants to go on a murderous revenge spree, and maybe play a little piano, and she needs Fenix to be her arms for both tasks. Though the film has some of the hallucinatory qualities of Jodorowsky's earlier films, Santa Sangre doesn't quite have the same punch, particularly in terms of cerebral and emotional impact, despite its fine visuals.

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 while at the same time, a deaf-mute mime he befriended as a child who is now grown, is in search for her long-lost childhood friend.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 01 August, 2022.