The Holy Mountain

The Holy Mountain
7.5

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Directed by: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Overview

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

The Holy Mountain
The Holy Mountain
The Holy Mountain

Reviews (3)

  • Sigeki Ogino (Rated: 10)

    This video work is visualized, "psychotherapy". It is truly in the realm of the divine. The numerous famous scenes, eccentric, unusually colorful, erotic, gross-out, and fully materialized by the alchemy of Mr. Alexandre Jodorowsky, can sufficiently heal patients with "mental disorders" as "psychoth...

  • sharkgummies (Rated: 6)

    This is crazy. Imagine if art, god and a fever dream made a movie together. That's this. Half time i was like: ''what is going on?... oh, i get it... i don't get it...'' and that's the point.

    Every frame is loaded with symbolism and characters who represent systems rather than people. It’s often...

  • The Fixate & Binge Podcast, w/ Joe Curdy (Rated: 9)

    Whatever you are expecting -- nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing can prepare you for the viewing experience of Alejandro Jodorowsky's THE HOLY MOUNTAIN.

    If Warhol, Salvador Dali, David Lynch and Roald Dahl made a film together, you might get something like Jodorowsky's surrealist **THE HO...

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