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HOLY BLOOD CONTEST

Tomorrow Alejandro Jodorowsky's Santa Sangre is being released for the first time ever on DVD and Blu-ray. The film is an engrossing, highly musical number that's heavy on circus freaks and murderous maternal cockblocking. And blood.

Blood that trickles over city steps from the trunk of a dying pachyderm while a humorously-sad funeral dirge belches from a clown's horn. Titular blood from an armless tween rape victim-appointed-saint that allegedly forms an otherworldly natatorium inside a Mexican church.

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The team at Severin Films--if you recall last year's Birdemic, that was them--are responsible for the DVD, and they've piled on the special features. I co-sign the opinion of Jodorowsky and Roger Ebert (read his jaw-dropping review from 2003) that the film is an equal of El Topo and The Holy Mountain, and that this release thus restores cinema's grandest and trippiest surrealist trilogy.

To kick things off, Vice and Severin are giving away 10 copies--five double-DVD sets and five Blu-ray versions--to winners of the following contest. Moreover, Austin's Mondo Tees chipped in a sick poster, one of only 200 made for the release, by artist Florian Bertmer.

To win a copy of Santa Sangre (specify in the email if you want a DVD-set or a Blu-ray): submit a nine-word acrostical sentence using each letter of A-L-E-J-A-N-D-R-O in that order. For example: A leopard eating Julian's asshole never denies ring-oral… But good lord, please make it better than that.
To win the poster: do the same as above, but use J-O-D-O-R-O-W-S-K-Y instead.

Email contest entries along with your name and contact info to [vice@viceland.com](mailto:vice@viceland.com?subject=Sangre Sante sentence thing). PS: The Blu-ray version of Santa Sangre will be screened at midnight on January 24 at reRun Gastropub Theater in Brooklyn. Ticket info here.

And if you haven't, read Vice France's Jodorowsky interview from 2009, in which the "metaphysical samurai" discusses the legendary production hell that was adapting a version of Dune to be scored by Pink Floyd.

HUNTER STEPHENSON