Santa sangre

"Santa Sangre" is one of Jodorowsky's most accessible films. Although not as strange as "El Topo" and "the Holy Mountain", it is still very bizarre ..... A colorful, horrifying and hallucinatory masterpiece. Many have compared it to "Psycho", "Freaks" and... Full review

Possible spoilersAlejandro Jodorowsky's (El Topo, The Holy Mountain) SANTA SANGRE was produced by Dario Argento's brother. It contains the same brutal violence towards women as Argento's pictures; although one man (Stockwell) is castrated via acid to the nether regions negating... Full review

There's so much you can say about this work. Vivid characters, colours, and situations that practically leap off the screen into the theatre next to you. A wonderfully quirky, repeatedly startling story. Graceful low-key cinematography that turns slums and sideshows... Full review

I remember seeing this movie in 1990 in a tiny cinema in London, on a date. As we walked from the theater and got on the tube, neither of us said a word for 20 minutes. Finally, she said, "you... Full review

This is no mere horror film - it's far too intelligent for that. It's a parable about human redemption and the healing power of love.Yes, there is a lot of violence, cruelty and exploitation to endure in this film, which... Full review

(To Raffaella Scorza, a Perugia). It is not a horror film (please). It is a tribute to a Latin American artistic movement: the magic realism which continues feeding our Literature. I think we are in front of a inexhaustible fountain,... Full review

First let me say that this is my frist movie by the director. I have not seen El Topo, or any of his others. This is a great movie, in my opinion. Not quite perfect, but still great. It, more... Full review

Once again, Alejandro Jodorowsky has managed to come up with a film that defies genrification even as it defies description. Santa Sangre is, on its surface, something of a suspense/horror film, but under the surface, it's a psychological drama, a... Full review

I saw the U.S. premiere of this movie at the DC FilmFest. I was intrigued by the thought of a man who makes movies once every 15 years.Well, I'll tell you. The people sitting next to me left 10 -... Full review

This is a startling work, a truly artistic masterpiece, which did achieve some mainstream recognition for Jodorowoski but not what the film deserved. Filled with unsettling images, grotesque displays of violence and sexuality, and subtle but comic references, Santa Sangre... Full review

To call " Santa Sangre " (1989) a horror film would be unjust to a film that exists outside all categories. But in addition to its deeper qualities, it is a horror film, one of the greatest, and after waiting patiently through countless Dead Teenager Movies, I am reminded by Alejandro Jodorowsky that true psychic horror is possible on the screen--horror, poetry, surrealism, psychological pain and wicked humor, all at once. ... Full Review

Jodorowsky is not boring. " Santa Sangre " is a throwback to the golden age, to the days when filmmakers had bold individual visions and were not timidly trying to duplicate the latest mass-market formulas. ... Full Review

Santa Sangre may well be the director's 'best' and most accessible film to date. Ultimately, whether or not you read anything into the strange yet compelling images Jodorowsky parades across the screen is irrelevant. ... Full Review

Topo, a mystical outlaw clad entirely in black, leads his naked child to the wasteland, where borderland towns have been wiped out by marauding thieves and the puddles are red with blood. ... Full Article

Once seen, never forgotten, Alejandro Jodorowskys eye-popping 1989 arthouse horror is a demented treat featuring circus freaks, zombies and spurting claret.Lots of spurting claret. ... Full Article

Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Chilean-born director of the notorious cult classic "El Topo," doesn't rouse himself to make a movie very often.Lucky us. In the 23 years since "Fando and Lis," he has made only three films, and his latest,... ... Full Article