Santa Sangre

About Santa Sangre

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.

Santa Sangre (1989) is a horror thriller film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Released in November 1989, it runs 122 minutes.

Axel Jodorowsky appears as Fenix, Blanca Guerra as Concha, Guy Stockwell as Orgo, and Thelma Tixou as The Tattooed Woman. Written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Claudio Argento.

Shelv files it under funeral, trauma, surreal, and circus. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Bloodstream.

Beau Is Afraid, Mulholland Drive, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre make useful companions to Santa Sangre, all filed under suicide and surrealism. It scores 7.2 out of 10 from 526 TMDB voters and it carries a NC-17 rating.