The Holy Mountain
The Holy Mountain is a 1973 film from Mexico, directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, running 114 minutes. reelscum files it under acid & psychedelic and transgressive & midnight.
- Year
- 1973 · 1970s films
- Country
- Mexico
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Director
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- canon (13/100)
- Also known as
- The Sacred Mountain · The Holy Mountain
Defined in the glossary: Acid & psychedelic, Transgressive & midnight
Jodorowsky's spiritual epic. Every frame is a blasphemous tableau, and it is dead serious.
Alejandro Jodorowsky's follow-up to El Topo, financed partly by John Lennon, is a sprawling alchemical satire in which a Christ-like thief and a group of powerful initiates climb a mountain seeking immortality. Every frame is a densely symbolic, often blasphemous tableau, and it attacks capitalism, religion and war with equal relish.
It is one of the most visually excessive films ever made, and its final shot breaks the fourth wall in a way nobody forgets. Overwhelming, pretentious and unlike anything else. A midnight-movie landmark.
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