Fresh
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Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Santa Sangre
Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen...
1989 · 2h 2m · NC-17
Drama, Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Santa Sangre
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.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Santa Sangre's content puts it beyond the call of duty for even the most slavishly devoted art-house denizen.
Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times
Rotten
What Jodorowsky lacks is a sense of humor, in the absence of which his films turn ludicrous.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
Drawing on his training in mime and his fascination with Gnosticism, Jodorowsky converted a story about a bizarre murderer into a grand work of art, full of symbols and imagery that reach beyond language to something primal and original.
Noel Murray, AV Club
Fresh
Visionary and haunting, Santa Sangre is a mixture of blood poetry and gobbledygook that keeps springing astonishingly to life.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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