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Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301955607 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 6301955609 Label: Expanded Entertainment Manufacturer: Expanded Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Expanded Entertainment Release Date: January 01, 1998 Running Time: 123 minutes Sales Rank: 3454 Studio: Expanded Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: June 27, 1990
Rating: - Best Film I have Ever Seen EVER (period).
I saw Sante Sangre back in the early 90s in Tucson Arizona and walked out of the theater with my jaw dragging on the ground. The visuals of this film rival Fellini and the best visual artists. The depth of the material rivals the work of the worlds greatest symbolic psychologists, ala C. G. Jung. What this film is about is essentially the mental experiences of its main character, an insane circus performer who is traumatized by violence in his youth. He becomes a quietly obsesses serial killer who is possessed by his mother. Or so it seems. As with anything that is examining the unconscious impulses ... Read More
Rating: - Incredible
Plot: Spanish/Mexican circus performers. A young boy named Felix, his mother 'a trapeze artist' and the womanizing man shes married to. We go between scenes of Felix as a catatonic inmate in an asylum all grown up and scenes from his childhood. In the middle theres killings, psychological horror, then the great ending.
Theres everything in this movie, love, surrealism, sexuality, mimes, metaphoric stuff. Its very odd, yet beautiful. Picture the movie Psycho involving circus performers, Its hard to explain but shares a similar theme. This movie is beyond description, beyond horror.. The ... Read More
Rating: - More Logical, More Mature and Yet Still Fantastical
As a hardcore Jodorowsky fan I find Santa Sangre his most sentimental film. For anyone who's only seen his more famous work (El Topo, Holy Mountain) from the late 60's, the beginning of this will throw you for a moment. The look of the film stock is completely modern, but you'll soon get over this as his wonderful images begin to take you away. Where his earlier work is filled with the fantastical mysticism of a younger man searching for answers, Sangre is populated by a mature perspective into everyday extraordinariness. Earlier films blazed forward like a twisted locomotive, where this follows a more ... Read More
Rating: - Saintly Blood
What's artful about this film is that it keeps you on the edge of your seat during the entire dramatic and surreal epic and makes you go through a transformation by feeling fear, disgust, sadness, and confusion. There are many stories going on at the same time of love, jealousy, insanity, religion, and so on. The link between the characters is never clear, but Jodorowsky keeps you enthralled with stunning colors and odd circus people crawling about.
Concha is the hot-tempered (and slightly insane) Mexican who is part of some bloody cult, and married to the fat gringo. He cheats on her and when ... Read More
Rating: - Bloodied but unbowed
Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowski has been a prominent yet somewhat elusive figure in the realm of cult films. His 1970 film "El Topo" became the first true hit of NYC grindhouse cinema yet over his film career spanning 40-some years he has only made a handful of feature films. Jodorowski is now back in the spotlight as the long-awaited sequel to "El Topo" is in pre-production for a tentative release in 2005. Having never seen one of his films I decided to try Santa Sangre (1989), apparently one of his more "accessible" films.
It was hard for me to figure out what exactly this movie ... Read More
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