Collection

Coffin Joe Collection

Series of films involving the character Coffin Joe, who appeared in the first Brazilian-produced horror film, 'At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul'. It consists of a trilogy and various related metafictional works written and directed by character creator José Mojica Marins.

8 titles 1964–2008

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At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
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At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

1964 ★ 6.8

Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to conceive with his wife, he kills her and sets out to find someone else.

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This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse
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This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

1967 ★ 7.0

Coffin Joe, the unholy undertaker, is back in town to continue his quest for the perfect woman, embarking on an even more brutal campaign of terror, aided and abetted by his hunchbacked assistant.

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The Strange World of Coffin Joe
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The Strange World of Coffin Joe

1968 ★ 5.3

Coffin Joe hosts this anthology of three short horror stories which feature a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a foot fetish, and a psychotic professor involved in sadistic rituals.

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The Awakening of the Beast
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The Awakening of the Beast

1970 ★ 5.5

A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine '60s drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.

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The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe
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The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe

1974 ★ 5.1

Filmmaker José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in a small farm, where they spend leisure time while Mojica writes the story for his next film. However, he observes eerie things in the house, with his friends being possessed one by one by some supernatural evil force.

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The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures
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The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures

1976 ★ 4.3

An eclectic group of strangers seek shelter on a dark and stormy night, soon finding an isolated guest house owned by a mysterious proprietor.

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Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind
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Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind

1978 ★ 4.9

A psychiatric doctor driven to insanity by nightmare visions of Zé do Caixão trying to steal his wife is helped by colleagues who enlist creator José Mojica Marins to convince the patient that he does not exist.

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Embodiment of Evil
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Embodiment of Evil

2008 ★ 5.3

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.

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