Review of Santa Sangre (1989) by Ernesto S — 21 Feb 2014
Filmed in English in Mexico City's Zocalo, this bizarre thriller is Jodorowsky's most accessible film (!), in which the caricaturesque meets the grotesque. It's as the filmmaker has remade Robert Bloch's Psycho seen through a Lynchian filter.
With a spectacular score mixed with rancheras and mambos, Felliniesque characters, and an irresistible almost incestual relationship played to perfection by Blanca Guerra and Jodorowsky's sons at different ages.
The younger Fenix is now the musician Adanowsky.
This review of Santa Sangre (1989) was written by Ernesto S on 21 Feb 2014.
Santa Sangre has generally received very positive reviews.
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