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MOVIE · 1989

Santa Sangre

DramaHorrorThriller123 min

A former circus performer escapes a mental hospital and falls back under the sway of his mother, the armless leader of a fanatical religious cult. Axel Jodorowsky is Fénix, a man shaped by a childhood of circus spectacle, family violence, and trauma; Blanca Guerra's Concha draws him into her shrine-centered world and toward a series of brutal acts carried out in her name. Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, the film moves through Mexico in images of carnival ritual, blasphemous iconography, and fractured memory, with clowns, stage performers, and bloodstained devotion crowding the frame.

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