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It looks like Severin Films will be kick­ing off the new year in high style with their January 25th release of Santa Sangre.  The long-awaited release of the Alejandro Jodorowsky cult favorite will be avail­able on both DVD and blu-ray (it has never been avail­able in either for­mat in the U.S.).  Better yet, it will be a jam-packed spe­cial edi­tion com­bin­ing a wealth of extras, includ­ing sev­eral that involve the direc­tor him­self.  Read on for all the sur­re­al­is­tic, senses-shattering specs of this forth­com­ing release…

FOR THE FIRST TIME ON BLU-RAY AND DVD, THE UNCUT, UNCENSORED MODERN MASTERPIECE FROM THE VISIONARY ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY

SANTA SANGRE

Virtually Unseen for 20 Years, the Surreal Epic Makes Its Long-Awaited Return on January 25, 2011, Accompanied by Over Five Hours of Bonus Material

4 STARS – “This is a movie like none I have seen before.” – Roger Ebert

“a film that no adven­tur­ous movie­goer can afford to miss.” – TV Guide

New York, NY (December 10, 2010) – The term “cult direc­tor” applies to no one more than Chilean-born film­maker and vision­ary shaman Alejandro Jodorowsky. Now Jodorowsky’s long-unseen mas­ter­piece SANTA SANGRE will make its eagerly antic­i­pated American Blu-ray and DVD debut on January 25, 2011, from Severin Films via MPI Media Group. The inter­na­tion­ally acclaimed tale of mad­ness, pas­sion and redemp­tion will be fully retored and accom­pa­nied by a wealth of extras, car­ry­ing an SRP of $29.98 on DVD and $34.98 on Blu-Ray.

Jodorowsky exploded onto the inter­na­tional scene with his noto­ri­ous 1970s sen­sa­tions El Topo and Holy Mountain. Endorsed by John Lennon and embraced by under­ground cul­ture world­wide, the films rede­fined movies as both art and enter­tain­ment while single-handedly cre­at­ing the mid­night movie genre.

Legal frus­tra­tions with the films’ owner (and Beatles man­ager) Allen Klein, as well as a failed attempt to direct a 14-hour movie adap­ta­tion of Dune star­ring Orson Welles and Salvador Dali, kept Jodorowsky from mak­ing movies for 16 years until his tri­umphant return with SANTA SANGRE. Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell and the filmmaker’s sons Axel and Adan Jodorowsky star in this sur­real epic about a young cir­cus per­former, the crime of pas­sion that shat­ters his soul and the macabre jour­ney back to the world of his arm­less mother and deaf-mute lover.

“This is a movie like none I have seen before,” wrote Roger Ebert in his orig­i­nal four-star review, “a wild kalei­do­scope of images and out­rages, a col­li­sion between Freud and Fellini. It con­tains blood and glory, saints and cir­cuses, and unspeak­able secrets of the night. And it is all wrapped up in a flam­boy­ant parade of bold, odd, strik­ing imagery, with Alejandro Jodorowsky as the ring­mas­ter. SANTA SANGRE is a movie in which the inner cham­bers of the soul are laid bare.”

Bonus fea­tures on the Blu-ray and two-disc DVD include:

DISC 1:

  • Feature Audio Commentary w Jodorowsky & Journalist Alan Jones
  • Deleted scenes w Jodorowsky commentary
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Japanese Trailer

DISC 2:

  • FORGET EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN: THE WORLD OF SANTA SANGRE (90MINS): Exclusive Feature Length Making-of Documentary Featuring All-New Interviews with Cast and Crew.
  • For One Night Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky — Channel X UK 1990 Documentary Featuring Interviews with Jodorowsky, Dennis Hopper, Mobieus, Marcel Marceau, Omar Sharif, and others
  • Goyo Cárdenas Spree Killer: Documentary on the real life inspi­ra­tion for SANTA SANGRE
  • On Stage Q&A with Jodorowsky
  • Jodorowsky 2003 interview
  • Composer Simon Boswell Interviews Jodorowsky
  • Blink Jodorowsky Short by Simon Boswell
  • “Close Your Eyes” Music Video by Simon Boswell
  • Echeck — Adan Jodorowsky Short Film with Optional Commentary
  • US and Japanese Trailer
  • English, Italian and Spanish Language Tracks
  • Closed Captions for the Hearing Impaired

About Severin Films

Severin Films, founded in 2006 with offices in Los Angeles, New York and London, has been called “well on its way to becom­ing the great­est indie label of all time” by BlogCritics.org. Their DVD and Blu-ray releases include Enzo Castellari’s orig­i­nal Inglorious Bastards, the unrated Director’s Cut of Just Jaeckin’s Gwendoline, Richard Stanley’s restored Hardware, Goya Award win­ner Jess Franco’s Macumba Sexual and Bloody Moon and Oscar-nominee Patrice Leconte’s The Hairdresser’s Husband. Severin hit main­stream head­lines all over the globe in 2010 with the the­atri­cal release of the incom­pa­ra­ble Birdemic: Shock & Terror.

A Somewhat NSFW Trailer…