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Santa Sangre

1989 · 122 min

A surreal, disturbing plunge into trauma and madness, visually striking and emotionally raw, with moments of grotesque beauty.

Tagline
Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen...
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.

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • trauma
  • madness
  • obsession
  • family
  • guilt
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror8
Humour3
Realism3
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity8
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
horror, drama, thriller
Directed by
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Written by
Roberto Leoni, Claudio Argento, Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring
Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou, Sabrina Dennison, Adan Jodorowsky, Faviola Elenka Tapia, Teo Jodorowsky
Music
Simon Boswell
Cinematography
Daniele Nannuzzi
Runtime
122 min
Country
Italy, Mexico
Languages
English, Spanish

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