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Santa Sangre
Summary: A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
Release Date: June 27, 1990
Director:
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Runtime: 2 h 03 min
MPAA: NC-17
Movie budget: $ 787,000
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