The Holy Mountain(La montaña sagrada)

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The mise-en-scene is packed with colorful, often shocking images (blood and body wastes are recurring motifs) but orchestrated in a creative delirium.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Bill White

So extreme in its sacrilege that it achieves a kind of sacredness, The Holy Mountain is a transcendental feast of the grotesque and the sublime.

Slant Magazine by Chris Cabin

The Holy Mountain is nothing if not exuberant while cartwheeling its way through the cosmos and back through the non sequitur-strewn plains and deserts, towns and cities, ridges and ranges of Mexico.

Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

On the whole, enjoyable nonsense.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

More than three decades later, Jodorowsky’s vision of chaos has acquired a powerful aura of prophecy.

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

Witty, disgusting, eye-popping, and incomprehensible, The Holy Mountain is every bit as pop-philosophical as Jodorowsky's earlier work, but it also contains original visual ideas nearly every 30 seconds, from frogs in armor to crucifixes made out of painted bread.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

A plumply overripe fruit of the counterculture, dripping with the juices of spiritual rebellion, semi-comic posturing, consciousness-raising and all-around freakiness.