This post is part of Paste’s Century of Terror project, a countdown of the 100 best horror films of the last 100 years, culminating on Halloween. You can see the ...

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Santa Sangre is a 1989 Mexican/Italian surrealist thriller directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and starring his son Axel as Fenix, an uncommunicative young Christ figure residing in a mental health ...

Alejandro Jodorowsky has made only half a dozen features since the 1960s (two of which he has apparently disowned), but he is a towering figure in the annals of cult cinema, the man behind the first — ...

ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY deserves his status as an avant- garde saint. For 50 years the Chilean film-maker, now 83, has flogged a class of hopped-up psychedelia that plays equally well to both drugged ...

Santa Sangre is the surreal horror story about a young man, Fenix (Axel Jodorowsky) who has grown up in a circus with his mother Concha (Blanca Guerra) and his philandering father. Fenix witnesses a ...

One day during the ‘70s, director Alejandro Jodorowsky was sitting in a bar in Mexico City when he was approached by a big-bellied, bespectacled man. “May I have a coffee with you? I love your page ...

There are few filmmakers who can capture the essence of surrealism on film, steeping storylines in symbolism and presenting evocative imagery on the canvas of celluloid. The most famous example would ...

Chilean film director Alejandro Jodorowsky will be in Montreal on Saturday, April 2, to introduce his films Holy Mountain (1973) and Santa Sangre (1989) at Festival du Cinéma Latino-Américain de ...

Four such movies are now available via VOD on the Tel Aviv Cinematheque website until the end of February: El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973), Santa Sangre (1989) and Psychomagic (2019). “I’m ...

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 ...

dio) are the nearest you might get. The opening scene finds hero Fenix seriously out-of-his-tree (literally) in a lunatic asylum. (The director kept casting in the family - one son, Axel Jodorowsky, ...