Santa sangre (1989)

A hallucinatory, dreamlike study of one individual's disturbed psyche; the line between truth and imagination blurs in this surreal universe.

Fenix has always lived in the rarefied and strange world of the circus, where both his parents work. But when his mother spots his father going off with another woman, a tragic battle results in which Fenix's father is killed, and his mother loses her arms. The boy goes insane, and remains institutionalized... until, many years later, his mother reclaims him, and together they embark on a bloody trail of revenge.

And only one person from the past knows the secret of the serial

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As with all of Alejandro Jodorowsky's films, Santa Sangre is like a beautifully grotesque painting or sculpture put onto film. His usage of the colors black, white and red also have spiritual and religious significance, as religion always has a major role.