Santa Sangre

Movie
Type
1989
Year
2h 3m
Runtime
★ 7.3
Rating
Fantasy / Horror / Mystery
Genre

A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.