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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. <
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> 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 metaphors, the visuals, the whole presentation, the characters, the story, everything was something out of the ordinary and one of a kind. Never saw a movie like this before. I found out about this one in a book i have that names rare horror films. This is probably the best one so far... if not the most unique film ive ever seen. Dont miss this one.

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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 logical even pace, yet still finds room for his trademark visionary moments within the storyline. Sangre's story (reminiscent of Fando & Lis) draws the viewer in, becoming very personal; and the cast (featuring 3 of Jodorowsky's sons) is superb. Sangre would be a wonderful introduction for anyone tentative about the outlandish cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky, and I recommend it as highly as his earlier work; as this is yet another side of one of the world's great directors.

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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. <
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>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 she catches him in the act, she pours what looks to be some kind of acid on his genitals, and he goes off and cuts her arms off and slices his throat in front of their young boy Fenix. Obviously after that, Fenix becomes disturbed and goes into an insane asylum. If you notice carefully, after the gringo kills himself and the ambulance comes, Concha is also pulled out on a stretcher with her face covered that perhaps indicates that she may have died. <
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>Therefore, everything that happens after Fenix escapes the insane asylum could be delusional, because if you also notice, the mother and the young trapeze girl don't age <
>That was just an example of how this film could be interpreted, but I'm just one person. Many people could have other ideas, but that's what makes this piece so brilliant. It keeps you hanging and haunted. I don't want to give away the whole story if that's even possible, but at the end, I'm inclined to believe that Fenix did what he did to resolve his issues with his mother. You must see it! No subtitles. <
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>Jodorowsky, who created this peculiar colorful masterpiece film, should be given credit for being original and not labeled and compared to Fellini, Bunuel, or Argento (who are also great). He is simply a foreign director doing his art his way, not conforming to Hollywood because in other countries art is not as commercialized as it is in the U.S. There doesn't always have to be a successful conclusion, a clichéd love scene, and a predictable plot. <
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