Aug 19, 2020
8 min read
The White Sister — Sante Muerte
Holy Death.
In Tony Scott’s 2004 action film Man on Fire, the haunted protagonist John Creasy (Denzel Washington) seeks revenge against a gang of kidnappers he believes murdered a little girl he was hired to protect. In one scene, as Creasy revisits the location of the kidnapping, journalist Mariana (Rachel Ticotin) picks up an amulet off the ground and says to him, “It’s Santa Muerte. Death worship…
