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Overview

User Rating:
7.7/10   4,054 votes
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Writers:
Alejandro Jodorowsky (story)
Roberto Leoni (adaptation)
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Release Date:
27 June 1990 (USA) more
Tagline:
Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen
Plot:
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 7 nominations more
User Reviews:
Opus Magnum!! more (72 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Axel Jodorowsky ... Fenix
Blanca Guerra ... Concha
Guy Stockwell ... Orgo
Thelma Tixou ... The Tattooed Woman
Sabrina Dennison ... Alma
Adan Jodorowsky ... Young Fenix
Faviola Elenka Tapia ... Young Alma
Teo Jodorowsky ... Pimp
María de Jesús Aranzabal ... Fat Prostitute (as Ma. De Jesus Aranzabal)
Jesús Juárez ... Aladin

Sergio Bustamante ... Monsignor
Gloria Contreras ... Rubi
S. Rodriguez ... The Saint
Zonia Rangel Mora ... Trini
Joaquín García Vargas ... Box-office Attendant (as Borolas)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Holy Blood (International: English title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for bizarre, graphic violence and sensuality, and for drug content. (edited version)
Runtime:
123 min | 120 min (cut version)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:R (1991) (edited version) | USA:Unrated (1990) (rating surrendered) | USA:NC-17 (uncut video version) | South Korea:18 | Italy:VM14 | Australia:R | Canada:18+ (Quebec) (uncut version) | France:-16 | Germany:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | Canada:R (Ontario)

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Trivia:
Alejandro Jodorowsky's sons Adan Jodorowsky & Axel Jodorowsky both play the part of Fenix at different ages. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the elephant is dying, all the close-ups of its trunk bleeding show the trunk to be clean. All the long shots of the elephant show it's trunk covered in blood. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
[Fenix crouches naked atop a tree trunk in his barren asylum room]
Doctor: [enters along with orderlies pushing a food cart] Fenix. Please...
[offers him a normal meal]
Doctor: Eat like a human being.
[pause]
Doctor: [puts the tray back down and offers him a raw fish]
Fenix: [howls]
[jumps down and grabs the fish]
Fenix: Grr!
[...]
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Movie Connections:
References Viaje fantástico en globo (1975) more
Soundtrack:
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8 out of 13 people found the following review useful.
Opus Magnum!!, 22 January 2001

(To Raffaella Scorza, a Perugia). It is not a horror film (please). It is a tribute to a Latin American artistic movement: the magic realism which continues feeding our Literature. I think we are in front of a inexhaustible fountain, an obligatory point of reference to many other films, like "Underground" and "Magnolia" (both of them, were done later). The director was great (many times the money is not well-invested; Jodorowsky has employ any cent to making real a mountainous dream). It is difficult to summarize the plot without a description of the episodes. I don't want to do it. What can I write?: well, a lot of blood, nightmares, flashbacks, violence; all combined artistically, the product is not disgusting. I give 9 points to this film. Believe me, you will enjoy it, like Raffaella and me.

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