El Angel Exterminador/Fun Facts

• Banned in The Soviet Union because the idea of people wanting to "leave a party" was considered offensive and anti-government.

• Luis Buñuel has publicly stated that he considers the film a failure and that if he shot it later in Paris, he would have gone more extreme with it (cannibalism).

• Although Buñuel said that there were twenty examples of repetition in the film, there were actually 27.

• On Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.