Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain is a allegorical journey into the disturbingly grotesque & absurd.
Heavily inspired by author René Daumal's Mount Analogue, the film is filled with bizarre imagery where everything serves a purpose and meaning that requires careful observation and thought with multiple viewings, much like the protagonist himself, who doesn't fully understand what's going on until he approaches his view from a different angle: the top of a "mountain". The film is deep with mysticism & religion, satire, the bizarre and the hilarious. I don't think I've laughed this much at irrational esotericism since Monty Python & The Holy Grail.
4 pyramids of blood out of 5
