Most recently watched by Javitron, sensoria, sleestakk
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. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.
Rated NC-17 | Length 123 minutes
Jacobo Lieberman | Adan Jodorowsky | Joaquín García Vargas | Brontis Jodorowsky | Blanca Guerra | Guy Stockwell | Axel Jodorowsky | Thelma Tixou | Sabrina Dennison | Faviola Elenka Tapia | Sergio Bustamante | Gustavo Aguilar Tejada | Héctor Ortega | Valérie Crouzet | Teo Jodorowsky | Jesús Juárez | Gloria Contreras | Billy Motton | Mary Aranza | S. Rodriguez | Zonia Rangel Mora | Teo Tapia | Edgar E. Jiménez Nava | Óscar Serafín Álvarez | Hilario 'Popitekus' Vargas | Guadalupe 'TNT' Aguilar | Arturo 'Rinoceronte' Contreras | Roger Fayard Arroyo
I’ve been dying to watch this movie again for a long time. I first caught it, almost by accident, when it played at Chicago’s historic Music Box theater. I feel lucky to have seen it on the big screen.
Through the years, the movie has stuck with me because, at the time, it was just so bizarre. Since then, I’ve seen thousands of movies, and more than a handful have outweirded Santa Sangre easily.
When I heard Severin Films was finally releasing this on Blue-Ray and DVD, I knew I had to own it. The Blu-Ray transfer is gorgeous, though I was a bit disappointed in the Dolby Stereo sound mix. I assume Severin did the best they could given what they had to work with, but it would have been nice if it had 5.1 audio on the Blu.
Because of my movie viewing history, this rewatch didn’t quite live up to expectations, but it was still great to revisit this truly strange film from my past, especially with friends, some of whom had never seen it.
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