Coffin Joe Collection

8 movies

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.

Movies

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

6.8

1964

Movie

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.

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

1964

6.8

This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

7.0

1967

Movie

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.

This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

1967

7.0

The Strange World of Coffin Joe

5.4

1968

Movie

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.

The Strange World of Coffin Joe

1968

5.4

The Awakening of the Beast

5.6

1970

Movie

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

The Awakening of the Beast

1970

5.6

The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe

4.9

1974

Movie

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.

The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe

1974

4.9

The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures

4.1

1976

Movie

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

The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures

1976

4.1

Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind

4.7

1978

Movie

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.

Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind

1978

4.7

Embodiment of Evil

5.1

2008

Movie

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.

Embodiment of Evil

2008

5.1