Santa Sangre

Santa Sangre

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Release Date

11/24/1989

Runtime

122 mins

Overview

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his mother – the leader of a strange religious cult – and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$787,000

Revenue

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A hallucinatory descent into psychological horror that bleeds surrealism and visceral gore into an intimate tragedy about a son's inescapable bond with his damaged mother. Watching it feels like navigating a fever dream where the grotesque and the pitiful merge.

Mood

UnsettlingDread-soakedMelancholicClaustrophobic

Themes

FamilyObsession

Tone

Operatic

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

Stylized genrePainterlyFormalist

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

Graphic violenceSuicide and self-harmChild endangerment

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