A monologue into the void: Cult movies

# 4 El Topo (1970) Episode about the acid western El Topo (1970), directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Keywords: Splatter, spiritual, gore, avant-garde, redemption, amputees, trauma, generational trauma.

https://www.arrowfilms.com/p/el-topo-blu-ray/13130131/

https://www.platekompaniet.no/film-tv/blu-ray/el-topo-1970-uk-import-blu-ray

https://www.amazon.com/El-Topo-Blu-ray-Alejandro-Jodorowsky/dp/B00LCT48HE

https://www.facebook.com/alejandrojodorowsky/

https://www.instagram.com/Alejandro.Jodorowsky/?hl=en

• Alejandro Jodorowsky
• (as Alexandro Jodorowsky)

• Alejandro Jodorowsky
• written by (as Alexandro Jodorowsky)

(in credits order) verified as complete

• Alejandro Jodorowsky
• El Topo
• Brontis Jodorowsky
• Hijo
• /Topo's son
• José Legarreta
• Moribundo
• Alfonso Arau
• Bandido 1
• José Luis Fernández
• Bandido 2
• Ali Junco
• Bandido 3
• (as Alí Junco)
• Gerardo Zepeda
• Bandido 4
• (as Gerardo Cepeda)
• René Barrera
• Bandido 5
• René Alís
• Bandido 6
• Federico Gonzáles
• Bandido 7
• Vicente Lara
• Bandido 8
• Pablo Leder
• Monje 1
• Giuliano Girini Sasseroli
• Monje 2
• Cristian Merkel
• Monje 3
• Aldo Grumelli
• Monje 4
• Mara Lorenzio
• Marah
• /La mujer - The Woman
• David Silva
• Coronel
• Ignacio Martínez España
• Manco
• Eliseo Gardea Saucedo
• Cojo
• Héctor Martínez
• Maestro 1
• (as Hector Martinez 'El Borrado')
• Paula Romo
• Desconocida
• Bertha Lomelí
• Gitana
• (as Berta Lomeli)
• Juan José Gurrola
• Maestro 2
• Víctor Fosado
• Maestro 3
• Agustín Isunza
• Maestro 4
• Jacqueline Luis
• Mujercita
• Carlos Lavenant
• Verdugo 1
• Eliseo Pereda
• Verdugo 2
• Pablo Marichal
• Esclavo
• Beatriz Beltrán Lobo
• Señora 1
• Carmen Lamadrid
• Señora 2
• Pepita González
• Señora 3
• Cecilia Leger
• Señora 4
• (as Cecilia Leguer)
• Elvira Gosti
• Señora 5
• (as Elvira Agosti)
• Antonio Álvarez
• Prisonero 1
• (as Antonio Alvarez)
• Rueben Gonzáles
• Prisonero 2
• (as Rubén González)
• Víctor Manuel Osorio
• Prisonero 3
• José Pérez Bustos
• Prisonero 4
• Eduardo Danel
• Prisonero 5
• Álvaro García
• Prisonero 6
• (as Alvaro García)
• José Antonio Alcaraz
• Sheriff
• Felipe Díaz Garza
• Ayudante
• (as Felipe Diazgarza)
• Patricio Pereda
• Niño
• Marcos E. Contreras
• Boxeador 1
• Arturo Silva
• Boxeador 2
• Robert John
• Hijo del Topo
• Julián de Meriche
• Cura
• (as Julien de Meriche)
• Valerie Jodorowsky
• Mujer iglesia
• (as Valerie Trumblay)
• José Luis González de León
• Hombre iglesia
• (as J.L. González de León)
• Francisco González Salazar
• Tendero
• Pedro García
• Hombre zanahoria

Rest of cast listed alphabetically

• Skeleton
• Skeleton in bush
• (uncredited)

• Juan López Moctezuma
• associate producer
• Moshe Rosemberg
• associate producer (as Moishe Rosemberg)
• Saúl Rosemberg
• associate producer
• Roberto Viskin
• associate producer
• Mick Gochanour
• producer (uncredited)

• Alejandro Jodorowsky
• (as Alexandro Jodorowsky)

• Rafael Corkidi
• director of photography

• Federico Landeros

• Alejandro Jodorowsky
• (as Alexandro Jodorowsky)

• José Durán

• José Luis Garduño

• Alejandro Jodorowsky
• (as Alexandro Jodorowsky)

• Roberto Viskin
• production manager

• José Luis González de León
• assistant director

• Gonzalo Gavira
• sound effects engineer
• Lilia Lupercio
• sound editor

• Miguel Garzón
• camera operator
• Pedro Moreno
• chief electrician
• Antonio Ruiz
• camera operator

• Guillermo Díaz
• extras casting

• Nacho Méndez
• music arranger (as Nacho Mendez) / orchestrator (as Nacho Mendez)

• Rafael Villaseñor Kuri
• script supervisor

• Scot Olive
• colorist (uncredited)

• Luz María Rojas
• production assistant
• Jorge Rubio Salazar
• production assistant (as Jorge Rubio)

Italian

• Bruno Alessandro
• El Topo
• Marzia Ubaldi
• Mara

• Allen Klein
• presenter
• Vicente Rojo
• title designer
• Humberto Gurza
• animal wrangler (uncredited)
• Miguel Gurza
• animal wrangler (uncredited)
• 'Chema' Hernandez
• livestock coordinator (uncredited)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky

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# 3 Faces of Death (1978) Shockumentary, mondo movies, mockumentary, newsreel footage, real life horror, video nasties, autopsy, famine, holocaust, slaughterhouse, vegetarian, satire, cults, accidents, fake, classical music, unethical, rubbernecking.

And now for something different. Even though most of this movie is fake, it still to this day packs one hell of a punch. Possibly the nastiest movie of all the "Video nasties", as they were called in the UK. This movie is not really my cup of tea, as it also features some real life horror in the shape of news footage. But still it is an interesting and influential movie. And it certainly was one of the most talked about "Have you seen it?" movies of the VHS era of violent movies.

• John Alan Schwartz
• (as Conan Le Cilaire)

• John Alan Schwartz
• (as Alan Black)

(in credits order)

• Michael Carr
• Dr. Francis B. Gröss

Rest of cast listed alphabetically

• 
  
• Samuel Berkowitz
• Self
• 
  
• Mary Ellen Brighton
• Self - Suicide Victim
• Thomas Noguchi
• Self - Chief Medical Examiner Coroner
• Adolf Hitler
• Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
• Benito Mussolini
• Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
• 
  
• John Alan Schwartz
• Leader of Flesh Eating Cult(uncredited)
• 
  
• Vern Stierman
• Narrator(uncredited)

• Rosilyn T. Scott
• producer
• William B. James
• executive producer
• Herbie Lee
• associate producer

• Gene Kauer

• Michael Golden

• Laurl Crushman
• Lorraine Kirsten
• (as Ivon Simoné)
• James Roy
• Hank Simon
• lead editor

• Allan A. Apone
• special makeup effects artist (uncredited)
• Peter Knowlton
• assistant makeup artist (uncredited)

• Derek Walsch
• production manager

• John Alan Schwartz
• assistant director (as Johnny Getyerkokov)

• Spary Dauterman
• sound effects editor
• Manny Samaniego
• assistant

• Adal Aboul-Hosn
• contributing camera operator
• Alberti Cerna
• camera operator: second unit
• Stephan Crowder
• camera operator
• Daniel De LaSantos
• camera operator: second unit
• Dimetri Fermo
• director of photography: Europe
• Don Gilberg
• camera operator: second unit
• Michael Golden
• director of photography: America
• Shelly Kurtz
• contributing camera operator
• Phillippe La Croix
• contributing camera operator
• Lester Markham
• contributing camera operator
• Wolfgang Offenbach
• camera operator
• Andrew Winston
• contributing camera operator

• Gary Finlan
• assistant editor (as Sean MacDonald)

• Michael Carr
• creative consultant (as Dr. Frances B. Gröss)
• Andrew P. Kirkham
• dvd producer [gb]

• John Freeman
• acknowledgment of still photographs: British Museum Photo

• Runtime
• 1h 45m(105 min) 1h 49m(109 min) (home video) 1h 23m (83 min) (Cut theatrical) (Germany)
• Sound mix
• Mono
• Color
• Color
• Aspect ratio
• 1.85 : 1
• Laboratory
• FotoKem Laboratory, Burbank (CA), USA
• Negative Format
• 16 mm35 mm
• Cinematographic Process
• Spherical
• Printed Film Format
• 35 mm(blow-up)

Here´s part of a movie review (not mine) from IMDB user SpelingError to illustrate how much of a nasty punch this movie packs:

"2/10

(...)This awful disaster of a movie is distractingly violent, super offensive, and full of shock value. I can safely say that this is one of the worst movies ever made. This documentary really has no plot. It's just a montage of people and animals dying gruesome and bloody deaths and the narrator also gives disturbing commentary detailing how they died.

Also, there is one thing that really infuriates me about this movie more than anything else. It is that the movie often plays goofy and uplifting music while it shows footage of people being brutally murdered (also, most of the deaths displayed here are in fact real). Most of those people died brutal deaths here and it downright disgusted me how the movie uses the goofy music to make them sound like some kind of a sick joke. However, the movie actually offended me in this case. It proves that the directors clearly don't care at all for any of the people or animals who brutally died in this movie. This clearly has some of the worst, unfitting music ever in cinema history." (...)

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# 2 Santa Sangre (1989) Alejandro Jodorowsky, splatter, gore, giallo, Argento, avant garde, serial killer, redemption, amputees, neurovariety, neurospicy, schizophrenia, Down syndrome, autobiographical, trauma, generational trauma, childhood trauma, Axel Jodorowsky, Adán Jodorowsky, Teo Jodorowsky, Tod Browning’s Freaks, art, influence on Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.

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Intro: Cuntjunkies, "Bubblegum Satan" from the EP Snuff.

Outro: Cuntjunkies: "Mankind no more" from the EP Snuff.

To shamelessly toot my own horn, I use Cuntjunkies, the band I used to be the vocalist in, as intro/outro musick for this podcast series. https://open.spotify.com/artist/4jc79RRJKNQofheuD8kXGj?si=Mc3zTMeDQByQLZfFS1VD6A

• Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Screenplay by
• Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Roberto Leoni
• Claudio Argento
• Story by Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Adaptation by Robert Leoni
• Produced by Claudio Argento
• Starring Axel Jodorowsky (R.I.P.)
• Blanca Guerra
• Adán Jodorowsky (R.I.P.)
• Teo Jodorowsky
• Guy Stockwell
• Thelma Tixou
• Cinematography Daniele Nannuzzi
• Edited by Mauro Bonanni
• Music by Simon Boswell
• Distributed by Mainline Pictures
• Expanded Entertainment
• Release dates19 May 1989 (Cannes)
• 24 November 1989 (Italy)
• 31 May 1990 (Mexico)
• Running time 123 minutes[1] Countries Mexico
• Italy

Languages: English, Spanish

Budget: $787,000

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Episode # 1 Bad Taste (1987)

Directed by

Peter Jackson

Written by

Peter Jackson

Produced by

Peter Jackson

Starring

• Terry Potter
• Pete O'Herne
• Craig Smith
• Mike Minett
• Peter Jackson

Cinematography

Peter Jackson

Edited by

• Peter Jackson
• Jamie Selkirk

Music by

Michelle Scullion

Production

companies

• WingNut Films
• New Zealand Film Commission

Distributed by

Endeavour Productions

Release dates

• 11 December 1987 (New Zealand)
• 16 June 1989 (United States)

Running time

92 minutes

Country

New Zealand

Language

English

Budget

$400,000

Episodes will be released every four weeks. Feedback, questions or requests? Email [email protected] or send a message on Messenger

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Intro: Cuntjunkies, "Bubblegum Satan" from the EP Snuff.

Outro: Cuntjunkies: "Mankind no more" from the EP Snuff.

To shamelessly toot my own horn, I use Cuntjunkies, the band I used to be the vocalist in, as intro/outro musick for this podcast series. https://open.spotify.com/artist/4jc79RRJKNQofheuD8kXGj?si=Mc3zTMeDQByQLZfFS1VD6A

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