Sante Sangre (Alexander Joderowsky) [4] - Not shown at Shock for contractual reasons, maybe a good thing, as I don't know what the crowd there would have made of it. Not to say it isn't good - you just don't realise until the end how it all fits together and at Shock, they might not have had the patience! The first third tells of Fenix, an 8-year old living in a circus, whose mother finds her husband with the tattoed lady and pours sulphuric acid over them - he responds by cutting her arms off, in imitation of the religious martyr she worships. This, understandably, traumatises Fenix and he spends years pretending to be an eagle before his mother returns and she compels him to be her 'hands' and extract revenge. Or is she dead, and he merely hallucinating? A slow starter, spends most of the flash-back building 'atmosphere' with a lot of irrelevancies - when Fenix & Mother get together, it livens up fast and the sequences of the son/mother pairing are astonishing. The director's son Axel and Blanca Guerra are excellent in the lead roles and even if it does bear a certain resemblance to 'Psycho', there are more than enough original ideas and thoughts to make this one worth seeing. 8/10.