Holy Blood (Santa sangre)

Name: Holy Blood (Santa sangre)
Duration: 2 h 3 min

2hr 3m

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal… More Details »

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Director:

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Writer:

Roberto Leoni, Claudio Argento

Runtime:

2hr 3m

Synopsis

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".

Cast

Axel Jodorowsky
Blanca Guerra
Guy Stockwell
Thelma Tixou
Sabrina Dennison
Adan Jodorowsky
Faviola Elenka Tapia
Teo Jodorowsky
Mary Aranza
Jesús Juárez

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RATINGS 2.2K FANS

4.0

Jun 1, 2021

Jodorowsky‘s Psycho Circus. Welcome to the show. A cornucopia of emotions and psychological artistry, poetic surrealism and avant-garde psychedelic curiosities—a multidimensional nightmare where blood is art and life is horror. Hypnotic... filled with heart, soul, Argento…

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Ian West

Sep 20, 2021

Jodorowsky's sort of like one of those dawn of rock n' roll guys for me. You gotta be willing to either skip over the "personal life" section of his wikipedia or you've gotta just take a step back and be like "huh! Weird guy!" If you can't do that, buddy I get it. I can't…

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Branson Reese

Jul 16, 2019

I loved everything about this, we need more gorey circus religion coming of age

529 Likes

dselwyns
May 7, 2014

My first step into the bizarre world of Jodorowsky ... and I already can't wait to take another. I was told that Santa Sangre is (possibly) his most "accessible" film. If that is the case, then I can't even imagine what the hell could be in store for me with El Topo and…

375 Likes

Ryan Francis

Mar 20, 2025

what a fever dream(complementary)

324 Likes

Mia K.

Jun 6, 2026

Excuse me. Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry. Mommy?

87 Likes

Evasive
Dec 8, 2016

like a classy john waters joint tbh

213 Likes

Josiah Morgan

Inner demons and cathartic epiphanies, Jodorowsky's film is produced by Claudio Argento and the director himself resorts to the typical giallo elements seen for two past decades in the Italian horror films, surpassing almost all of them. With the outstanding characteristic…

208 Likes

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

Oct 11, 2018

Hooptober #18 Alejandro Jodorowsky's Santa Sangre is a freak show, a perverse tale of how to put on a performance through dreams, nightmares, and hallucinations. It's nowhere near The Holy Mountain level of strangeness, but Santa Sangre is still a bizarre and dark film…

195 Likes

Darren Carver-Balsiger

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one of jodorowskys best :) such a strange and fun surrealist plot with many twists and turns

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Great classic film, so much heart and soul. Beautifully tragic it’s a must watch!

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Not Jodorowsky’s best but man it’s up there.

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