With the midnight movie classic El Topo coming back to theaters and a DVD box set of El Topo, The Holy Mountain, and Fando & Lis, there is an interview with the originator of all midnight movies himself, Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Courtesy of Al Weisel, a freelance writer, we get an insight on Alejandro's twisted mind.

He talks about the delayed release of his movie and the fact that first time viewers of his movies should look at them as art, and not necessarily a movie.

Synopsis:
The gunfighter El Topo ("The Mole") and his young son ride through a desert to a village, whose inhabitants have been massacred. Bandits are nearby, torturing and killing the survivors. El Topo rescues a woman (Mara), who leads him on a mission to find and defeat the four master gunmen of the desert. Leaving his son with a group of monks, El Topo and Mara complete the mission, accompanied by a mysterious woman in black. The women leave El Topo wounded in the desert, where he is found by a clan of deformed people who take him to the remote cavern where they live. Awakening years later, he goes with a dwarf woman to a nearby town, promising to dig a tunnel through which the cave-dwellers can escape. They find the town run by a vicious sheriff and home to a bizarre religious cult. El Topo's son, now a man, is a monk in the town. The completion of the tunnel leads El Topo, the townspeople, and the cave-dwellers to a bloody and tragic end.

Interview here
Al Weisel Site