
Santa Sangre
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Release Date
11/24/1989Runtime
122 minsOverview
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
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$787,000Revenue
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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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