# Santa Sangre

Santa Sangre at Rio Cinema, Monday 9 November 2026, 20:30.

- Price: £17.50
- Venue: Rio Cinema, Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London
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![Santa Sangre](https://noky.io/images/fc0afe9da1a56bdea5307c790e8e0b6e7aef61c8c2f6897c141e7e4c7b6cd128-2000.webp)

A screening of Santa Sangre, a film unlike anything you have seen before, a surrealist psychological horror tale that is visually extraordinary, inventive, tender and deeply human, with a cult queer following for its exploration of gender roles and androgyny. It follows circus performer Felix, whose traumatic childhood left him mentally disturbed: as a boy he witnessed his father cutting off the arms of his mother Concha, and after years in an asylum he returns to do her bidding, murdering every woman he comes into contact with until he chances upon his first love. Pink Palace is a super low fi, highly relaxed weekly queer film club that takes place in the basement bar as a safe space, where curator Andrew Woodyatt introduces each film and chatting afterwards is encouraged. Critics have called it a macabre, maximalist tale of blood and circuses where Hitchcock meets Fellini in Mexico City's most Freudian back alleys, extraordinary, and a grand work of art full of symbols and imagery that reach beyond language.

## Dates

- Monday 9 November 20:30 — Rio Cinema

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