Alejandro Jodorowsky,
Brontis Jodorowsky,
Alfonso Arau,
José Luis Fernández,
Gerardo Cepeda
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This violent and allegorical Mexican western attracted a cult following in its day. It is the story of El Topo, a gunslinger who sets out for revenge against the outlaws who slew his wife. He ends up ... read more
DVD Release Date: December 13, 2006
Stats: 1,395 reviews
This was Alejandro Jodorowsky's first recognised cult movie in the early seventies. Shot in Mexico, El Topo (or the mole in English) is a gunslinger (played by Jodorowsky), who, dressed completely in black leather, rides on his horse with his seven-year-old son through the desert... read more
This has to be the most F_-_ Up Movie I have ever seen, What I thought was going to be a spaghetti Western turned out to be anything but. Those that called this a master piece, well I guess I would have a hard time understanding you. Don't think this ever hit the big screen in th... read more
A strange exploration of several Eastern religions with unusual characters that suddenly changes into a blasphemous re-telling of the New Testament with a really brutal and bloody finale that was shot prior to Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.
El Topo emerges as the cult movie e... read more
Jodorowsky's often misunderstood 'Western' is a surreal masterpiece riddled with religious symbolism and bizarre mythology. There is so much in here, so many influences, it?s easy to make comparisons but the best way I can put it is that it?s like a Sergio Leone directed Monty Py... read more
A surreal and mystical western that depicts the journeys of a messianic gunfighter. A rare mix of Buñuel's satire and anti religious imagery and Peckinpah's ultra violent frontiere.
If it wasn't for Jodorowsky's pretentious guru crap he tries to profess in all of his films, it pr... read more
How does one describe El Topo, the original midnight movie? It's bizarre, it's over the top, it's as if Quentin Tarantino directed a Sergio Leone western.
A killer fights four mystical master gunfighters in the desert, then becomes a pacifist and helps freaks trapped in a cave to tunnel their way to a fascistic Western town. Jodorowsky's impossible to describe mix of spaghetti Western and art-house surrealism is jaw dropping, obsc... read more
El Topo is probably one of the few films that truly embodies the term "cult movie". Hard to get for more than 30 years, almost to the point of making it a sort of urban legend, claimed to be adored by everyone from John Lennon to marketing tools like Marilyn Manson. El Topo ends ... read more
Never exciting but often incredibly interesting. Jodorowsky truly has a knack for poetic language, and one can only wonder what he could have done with a big budget.
The sparse dialogue only increases the surreality of the film.The Spanish with English subtitles makes it all th... read more
This is gutbucket Luis Buñuel , surrealism on the cheap, and it hasn't dated well -- the blood is patently fake and the gunshots are dubbed. Full Review
You may find it a tiresome, macho relic -- or a ragtag circus wandering through a fantasy realm part Treasure of the Sierra Madre, part Tolkien's Middle-earth. Full Review
El Topo is a good deal more interesting and a good deal less hung up on its own pretensions than all my most intelligent friends had led me to believe. Full Review
Jodorowsky dazzles us with such delicate mythological footwork that the violence becomes distanced, somehow, and we accept it like the slaughters in the Old Testament. Full Review
An extravagant hodgepodge of hand-me-down surrealism, mysticism, Italian westerns, theater of cruelty, and Buñuel -- more enjoyable for its unending string of outrages than for its capacity to make co... Full Review
For all of its easily mocked elements, "El Topo" is a work of mad cinematic genius that sticks. Full Review
... the story of 'El Topo' proves too scattered and weak to bear its digressions and vague symbols that suggest everything, anything and nothing. Full Review
Has lost little of the maddening, bewildering weirdness that made it a seminal midnight-movie phenomenon. Full Review
its mixture of genre revisionism, religious mysticism, and shocking visuals felt new and wild and meaningful, at least to those who wanted to see it that way. Full Review
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