Santa Sangre

Santa Sangre Holy Blood is a 1989 MexicanItalian avantgarde horror film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and written by Jodorowsky along with Claudio Argento and Roberto Leoni. It stars Axel Jodorowsky, Adan Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra and Guy Stockwell. Divided into both a flashback and a flashforward, the film, which is set in Mexico, tells the story of Fenix, a boy who grew up in a circus, and his life through both adolescence and early adulthood.

The film flashes back into Fenixs childhood, which he spent performing as a child magician in a circus run by his father Orgo, the knifethrower, and his mother Concha, a trapeze artist and aerialist. The circus crew also includes, among others, a tattooed woman, who acts as the object of Orgos knifethrowing feats, her adopted daughter Alma a hearingimpaired, voiceless mime and tightrope walker whom Fenix fancies, Fenixs midget friend Aladin, a pack of clowns and a small elephant. Orgo carries on a very public flirtation with the tattooed woman, and their knifethrowing act is heavily sexualized.Concha is also the leader of a religious cult that considers, as its patron saint, a little girl who was raped and had her arms cut off by two brothers. Their church is about to be bulldozed at the behest of the owner of the land, and the followers make one last stand against the police and the bulldozers. A Roman Catholic monsignor drives into the conflict, saying that he will prevent its demolition, but after he enters the temple to inspect it he deems it blasphemous and unworthy the girl worshipped is no saint, he says, and the supposed pool of holy blood at the center of the edifice contains just red paint, so the demolition is carried out. Fenix leads Concha back to the circus, where she finds out about Orgos affair, but Orgo, being also a hypnotist, puts Concha in a trance and has sex with her. ........

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