Santa Sangre

Director/creator

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Year

1989

Format

Feature

Languages

English

Countries

Italy, Mexico

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Summary

Italian-Mexican giallo horror about a former circus performer traumatised since witnessing his father’s suicide and attempted murder of his amputee mother; he escapes a mental hospital to ‘become her arms’. One of the film’s main characters is a deaf woman (shown as a child and adult)

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