How could Alejandro Jodorowsky top El Topo in the weird stakes? Easily, as it tuns out, as his follow-up film The Holy Montain was even more surreal and weird than his critically acclaimed epic acid Western was The film was produced with help from The Beatles' manager Alan Klein after the success of El Topo (it didn't hurt that John Lennon and George Harrison were both huge fans anyway). Jodorowsky didn't sleep for a week before filming began and the film has a restless energy about it. The Holy Mountain is loaded with surreal imagery and weird scenes, such as the one where a group of soldiers march through the streets with skinned animals strapped to their guns and the film's ending, where Jodorowsky breaks the fourth wall and reveals that it is, after all, just a film and that "real life awaits us". The film probably made more sense to the those that were watching at midnight screenings in the 1970's high as a kite.
