Fresh
You can say this: It is never boring.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Santa Sangre
Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen...
1989 · 2h 2m · NC-17
Drama, Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Overview
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Santa Sangre's content puts it beyond the call of duty for even the most slavishly devoted art-house denizen.
Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times
Rotten
What Jodorowsky lacks is a sense of humor, in the absence of which his films turn ludicrous.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
Drawing on his training in mime and his fascination with Gnosticism, Jodorowsky converted a story about a bizarre murderer into a grand work of art, full of symbols and imagery that reach beyond language to something primal and original.
Noel Murray, AV Club
Fresh
Visionary and haunting, Santa Sangre is a mixture of blood poetry and gobbledygook that keeps springing astonishingly to life.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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