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Dominican Rep. Santa sangre
- Original title
- Santa sangre
- Year
- 1989
- Running time
- 123 min.
- Country
Mexico- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Axel Jodorowsky
Blanca Guerra
Guy Stockwell
Thelma Tixou- Sabrina Dennison
Adan Jodorowsky- Faviola Elenka Tapia
- Teo Jodorowsky
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Mexico-Italy;
- Genre
- Horror. Drama. Thriller | Surrealism. Circus. Gore. Family Relationships. Psychological Drama. Cult Movie
- Synopsis
- A hallucinatory, dreamlike study of one individual's disturbed psyche; the line between truth and imagination blurs in this surreal universe. 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: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother. Against his will, he "becomes her arms" and the two undertake a grisly campaign of murder and revenge.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1989: Sitges Film Festival: Official Selection1990: Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films): nominated to Best Horror Film.
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