History YMMV / SantaSangre

* TearJerker: The elephant's death scene, to anyone who knows what it's like to lose a pet. Fenix crying makes it even more heartrending, especially during the elephant's funeral. The scene treads slightly into TheFunInFuneral territory, with the clowns crying literal gushes of tears, and [[MoodWhiplash then]] [[spoiler: the elephant's carcass is thrown off and butchered by the homeless people]].

* TearJerker: The elephant's death scene, to anyone who knows what it's like to lose a pet. Fenix crying makes it even more heartrending, especially during the elephant's funeral. [[spoiler: only for the elephant's carcass to be thrown off and butchered by the homeless people]].

* RealLifeRelative: Gosh, young Fenix and adult Fenix look remarkably alike, don't they? That's because they're played, respectively, by brothers Adan and Axel Jodorowsky — sons of director Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky. Adan and Axel's older brother Teo plays the pimp who inadvertently leads Fenix to the Tattooed Woman, and the eldest Jodorowsky brother, Brontis (whose other roles include his father's on-screen son in the first act of ''Film/ElTopo''), has a minor role as an asylum orderly.
* {{Tearjerker}}: The elephant's death scene, to anyone who knows what it's like to lose a pet. Fenix crying makes it even more heartrending, especially during the elephant's funeral. [[spoiler: only for the elephant's carcass to be thrown off and butchered by the homeless people]].
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: There are plenty of symbols that aren't clear (circus imagery, a murder victim becoming a dove in a nightmare).

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: There are plenty of symbolism that aren't clear (circus imagery, a murder victim becoming a dove in a nightmare).

* DesignatedVillain: Orgo is a philanderer and clearly not a ''nice'' person, but his most overt abuse toward Fenix (tattooing him with a knife) appears to be genuinely intended as a bonding experience, meant to make him more macho, and maybe make Fenix less of a mama's boy. (Which would have been a ''very good thing'' if it had worked...) Orgo's one act of true violence comes seconds after [[spoiler: his wife dissolves his genitals with acid]].
** That said it is stated that he cannot return to America because he killed some women.

* RealLifeRelative: Gosh, young Fenix and adult Fenix look remarkably alike, don't they? That's because they're played, respectively, by brothers Adan and Axel Jodorowsky — sons of director Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky. A third son, Teo Jodorowsky, plays the pimp who inadvertently leads Fenix to the Tattooed Woman.
* {{Tearjerker}}: The elephant's death scene, to anyone who knows what it's like to lose a pet. Fenix crying makes it even more heartrending especially during the elephants funeral. [[spoiler: only for the elephant's carcass to be thrown off and butchered by the homeless people]].

* {{Tearjerker}}: The elephant's death scene, to anyone who knows what it's like to lose a pet. Fenix crying makes it even more heartrending especially during the elephants funeral. [[spoiler: only for the elephant's carcass to be thrown off and butchered by the homeless people]].

* Tearjerker: The elephant's death scene, to anyone who knows what it's like to lose a pet. Fenix crying makes it even more heartrending especially during the elephants funeral. [[spoiler: only for the elephant's carcass to be thrown off and butchered by the homeless people]].

* RealLifeRelative: Gosh, young Fenix and adult Fenix look remarkably alike, don't they? That's because they're played, respectively, by brothers Adan and Axel Jodorowsky — sons of director Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky. A third son, Teo Jodorowsky, plays the pimp who inadvertently leads Fenix to the Tattooed Woman.

* DesignatedVillain: Orgo is a philanderer and clearly not a ''nice'' person, but his most overt abuse toward Fenix (tattooing him with a knife) appears to be genuinely intended as a bonding experience, meant to make him more macho, and maybe make Fenix less of a mama's boy. (Which would have been a ''very good thing'' if it had worked...) Orgo's one act of true violence comes seconds after [[spoiler: his wife dissolves his genitals with acid]].

* CompleteMonster: The tattooed lady, who pimps out an unwilling Alma and points out that she can't cry for help.

* CompleteMonster: The tattooed lady, who pimps out an unwilling Alma and points out that she can't cry for help. Concha soon becomes one as well.

* NightmareFuel: Somehow, in a movie full of NightmareFuel (from a pool of holy blood to an elephant hemorrhaging from its trunk to arms being cut off), the most disturbing thing is a female wrestler who is clearly played by a man.