Welcome to Movie Nights @ Cloud Mountain Kombucha
Film Fanatic Movie Nights is a series of communal film experiences designed to stimulate the senses, feed the mind, and dazzle the eyes. Each film is presented by a film fanatic curator who introduces the film, sets the stage with background and insight, and leads an informal discussion afterward. Whether you come as a viewer, a movie buff, or a full-on fanatic — you're among friends here.
This screening is part of Champaign-Urbana's annual month-long celebration of horror films — one of cinema's most inventive, subversive, and enduring forms. This October, explore a carefully curated selection of the genre's greatest achievements on the big screen. Full festival schedule: shocktober-fright.com
Santa Sangre
Mexico/Italy 1989 • 123 min (1.85:1) • Not Rated
Directed by: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell
Restoration by: Severin Films
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Saturday, October 17, 2026 at 8:00pm
Venue: Cloud Mountain Kombucha (208 W Griggs St, Urbana)
Advance tickets: $10 (available online until 5pm on October 7)
Regular admission: $12 (at the door)
Special offer: Join Film-Fanatic.Club today and get one FREE admission plus one drink ticket (more info)
About the film
A hallucinatory descent into madness and memory, this masterwork stands as one of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s most ferocious and personal visions—equal parts surrealist nightmare, operatic melodrama, and cult initiation rite. Emerging after years of myth-making around the director’s unrealized projects, the film marked a triumphant return that reaffirmed Jodorowsky’s status as cinema’s high priest of the subconscious. Drenched in ritual, symbolism, and Grand Guignol intensity, it plays less like a conventional narrative than a waking dream engineered to unnerve and mesmerize a roomful of viewers at once. Decades later, its power remains undiminished: shocking, hypnotic, and unmistakably the work of a singular auteur whose influence continues to ripple through cult and midnight cinema.
Content Warnings: Graphic violence and gore, murder, disturbing imagery, sexual content, nudity, religious imagery, psychological trauma, body horror, and themes of abuse and incest.
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Presented by Sanford Hess
My name is Sanford Hess, and I’m the former operator
of the Art Theatre. With thousands
of movies made
every year, it’s
important to go
back and spotlight films from our
recent past before they’re buried
among thousands of other titles.
Santa Sangre is the equivalent of a strange vegetable with a weird texture. If your palate has been limited to meat and potatoes of mainstream Hollywood films you might need some friendly encouragement to try something so exotic.
I am here to give you that encouragement!
The flavors of Santa Sangre are intense and unusual. They will deepen your appreciation for what film can convey and send you on a path of exploring other cuisines of film.
Please join me to experience this special film in the right environment, surrounded by other film lovers and followed by a discussion to digest what we've just experienced.
Film-Fanatic.Club • Cloud Mountain Kombucha • 208 W Griggs St, Urbana
