Cult director Jodorowsky emerged from a long period of film inactivity with this wild explosion of movie madness that culls from Freud, Jung, and surrealism to create a bloody circus of the mind, which is told from the perspective of an escapee from a mental hospital.

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When Alejandro Jodorowsky’s film was first released in 1989, it was welcomed as a return to form, harking back to the wild, psychedelic vision of his ’70s maste

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"Santa Sangre" is a throwback to the golden age, to the days when filmmakers had bold individual visions and were not timidly trying to duplicate the latest

The parade of perversity marches on with this eye-popping oddity from Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who set gorges rising on the cult circuit back in 1971 with El Topo. Fenix, the central character in Santa Sangre (Holy Blood), has problems.

Alejandro Jodorowsky became an underground-cinema superstar after the release of his 1970 psychedelic Western El Topo, which he followed with his first real masterpiece: the surreal 1973 religious satire The Holy Mountain. But then he had a long wilderness period. Jodorowsky tried and failed to adapt Frank Herbert’s…