The Holy Mountain

Alejandro Jodorowsky wrote and directed and started and scored and did everything.

He created the movie, The Holy Mountain.

And he, and he, he was like the original cult, cult movie, classic cult movie guy that his movie was the one that everybody would go see.

And, um, I get to shake Alejandro's hand.

He's 95 years old, and he's still making movies and still writing them and performing them.

But he makes amazing graphic novels and a bunch of other movies worth watching.

But The Holy Mountain, watch The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky, and you'll know why I got starstruck.

To this day, I'm like, The fact that I got to shake his hand is like one of the greatest gifts in this lifetime.

What is Eric Andre's no notes film? Would you guess?

His no-notes film would probably be Holy Mountain.

Okay, wow.

All right,

Nice.

If he put Holy Mountain or El Topo, I might go that way.

But even just without thinking, I enjoy Exorcist 3 more than I enjoy Santa Sangre.

And I also think Exorcist 3 is saying a lot.

You know, there is a more negative tone, an evil tone, but in the sense that nature is not Satan and that is just like instinct, you know? He's saying something kind of similar.

So the movie that I saw from Jodorowsky, I've seen The Holy Mountain.

I hadn't seen El Topo, but...

I saw El Topo in my cult cinema class.

So it seems like a stream of consciousness.

yes this has more of a narrative it's a coming-of-age story of his traumatized child uh who grows up and is still dealing with those childhood fixations and through his own sexuality and catharsis he's able to eventually get some autonomy but let me play it From

Alejandro Jodorowsky, the legendary director of El Topo and the Holy Mountain, comes this year's most spectacular film, Sata

Sangre, and creepy characters.

You're, you're Joey's entertainment.

Well, I look forward to subjecting you both to The Holy Mountain whenever that happens, so yeah.

[laughs]

Oh, Lord.

He kept mentioning El Topo.

The Holy Mountain, bro.

And what's the other one that people were talking about? Oh, the one that we were just talking about earlier.

KM31.

... particularly in that climactic freak out is crazy.

I was also thinking this time, I don't think I had thought about this previously, but there's some Holy Mountain.

Um, I don't know how-

Yeah

... arty Rob Zombie's cinematic influences are, but I, I kept thinking of Jodorowsky, uh, and Holy Mountain specifically.

Yeah, definitely.

Something about those priest figures and their miters and everything kind of freaked me out, so.

The vibes.

But my, it's funny, my story is not that dissimilar in the fact that, like, I had, I had heard of Jodorowsky by the reputation for El Topo and the Holy Mountain, uh, neither of which I had actually seen.

I only knew stories of those movies, but they were ones-

Mm.

I mean, and he cast himself in El Topo-

Mm-hmm

... and in The Holy Mountain.

Yeah.

Zoom back camera.

That's a Holy Mountain reference.

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