The Strange World and Stranger Films Of Coffin Joe

Awakening Of The Beast: Coffin Joe
Year: 1969 length: 100 tint: Rating: Not Rated
Directed By: Jose Mojica Marins
Starring: Jose Mojica Marins
Synopsis: "Awakening of the Beast" is a deliriously psychedelic nightmare about the rise of drug use and perversion among the youth of the nation. In a series of increasingly bizarre vignettes we see all manner of depravity, from a group of finger-sniffing hippies to a lecherous movie producer seducing a young starlet. Four drug addicts are chosen out of this group to take part in an LSD experiment. What follows is the closest thing to real acid trip ever put on film--but are they under the influence of LSD or Coffin Joe? Banned by Brazil's military dictatorship for nearly 20 years, it is now considered by many to be writer-director-star Jose Mojica Marins' masterpiece.
Code: FAN0604DVD Retail: $29.99 Format: DVD Release Date: 4/3/01
Features: Trailer; Jose Mojica Marins Interview; Reproduction of an original Coffin Joe comic book Widescreen: 1.66:1, Color B Mono, Original Language: Portuguese, Subtitles: English
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Genre: Foreign, Horror SWVQ CQJ

This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse: Coffin Joe
Year: 1966 length: 91 tint: Rating: Not Rated
Directed By: Jose Mojica Marins
Starring: Jose Mojica Marins, Tina Wohlers, Antonio Fracari, Jose Lobo, Nadia Freitas
Synopsis: This sequel to "At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul" is bigger, bolder and more insane than its predecessor. Coffin Joe returns to continue his quest for the perfect bride. Aided by a hunchbacked assistant, he embarks on an even more brutal campaign of terror. For his sins, Joe is dragged headfirst into the underworld. As imagined by writer-director-star Jose Mojica Marins, it's as unique a vision of hell as you'll ever see!
Code: FAN0603DVD Retail: $29.99 Format: DVD Release Date: 4/3/01
Features: Trailer; Jose Mojica Marins Interview; Reproduction of an original Coffin Joe comic book Widescreen: 1.66:1, Color B Mono, Original Language: Portuguese, Subtitles: English
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Awakenings of the Beast
Banned by the junta for nearly two decades - a bizarrely nasty 60s trip through the mind of an LSD user.Liner notes call this "The Haunting" on acid.
Directed by: JOSE MOJICA MARINS
Starring: Coffin Joe
Subs: English subtitles Genre: CQJ Year: 1968 Tint: Color Code: SW4096 Retail: $15.00

Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe
Jose Mojica Marins plays himself in bell bottoms, but soon enough Coffin Joe must come to the rescue - and exorcise a family in the grip of demonic possession. Only this exorcism requires cannibalistic devil worship - a new twist on the old two-step!
Directed by: JOSE MOJICA MARINS
Starring: Coffin Joe
Subs: English subtitles Genre: CQJ Year: 1972 Tint: Color Code: SW4999 Retail: $15.00

Coffin Joe's Visions of Terror
A featurette called "Macabre Nightmare" tops the bill, plus another mini-fest in color and black and white, of trailers from 14 of the director's wildest "cronicas de terror" tranferred from the director's own collection.
Directed by: JOSE MOJICA MARINS
Starring: Coffin Joe
Subs: English subtitles Genre: CQJ Year: 1963-1986 Tint: Color Code: SW4611 Retail: $15.00

Demons and Wonders
Mo' Joe than you can handle,with his long-rumored autobiography like 8 1/2 in Hell! Mojica has a stroke while trying to pull one of his productions out of bankruptcy and into the eyeballs of a fearful public. This trial by fire is followed by three short subjects from his early years.
Directed by: JOSE MOJICA MARINS
Starring: Coffin Joe
Subs: English subtitles Genre: CQJ Year: 1976 Tint: Color Code: SW5323 Retail: $15.00

End of Man - Finis Hominis
Coffin Joe skewers those sideshow revivalists, by playing a would-be Messiah who brings people back to life who would have rather stayed dead, exploits the faithful and crashes orgies in his spare time.
Directed by: JOSE MOJICA MARINS
Starring: Coffin Joe
Subs: English subtitles Genre: CQJ Year: 1971 Tint: B/W Code: SW4610 Retail: $15.00

Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind
Color and black and white clips of every scene nixed by the Brazilian dictatorship. Shots from over ten films haunt a young man's nightmares - there's no escape from the Coffin Joe Film Festival!
Directed by: JOSE MOJICA MARINS
Starring: Coffin Joe
Subs: English subtitles Genre: CQJ Year: 1970 Tint: B/W C Code: SW4097 Retail: $15.00

Hellish Flesh
The director plays a scientist with a secret formula, which can dissolve an entire body with ease. Unfortunately for him, that gives his wife and her lover ideas...but can they pull off their plans? This unholy mess is illustrated with actual footage of reconstructive surgery.
Directed by: JOSE MOJICA MARINS
Starring: Coffin Joe
Subs: English subtitles Genre: CQJ Year: 1970 Tint: Color Code: SW5000 Retail: $15.00

Perversion
Coffin Joe was forced to drop this film's original title ("Estupro" or "Rape"), but he didn't drop the storyline: A spoiled playboy starts his nipple collection - by biting off a donation and taking it home! Watch him get what he deserves!
Directed by: JOSE MOJICA MARINS
Starring: Coffin Joe
Subs: English subtitles Genre: CQJ Year: 1978 Tint: Color Code: SW4608 Retail: $15.00

Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasure
Mojica takes a break, while his protegee Marcelo Motta directs this setpiece of "Twilight Zone" inevitability: A hostel offers shelter for the night, and fulfillment of your ugliest dreams.
Directed by: JOSE MOJICA MARINS
Starring: Coffin Joe
Subs: English subtitles Genre: CQJ Year: 1975 Tint: Color Code: SW4609 Retail: $15.00

Strange World of Coffin Joe
A trio of ghoulish cautionary tales. A dollmaker's power play, the ups downs of dating the dead, and a sadistic doctor proves that love conquers nothing much at all.
Directed by: JOSE MOJICA MARINS
Starring: Coffin Joe
Subs: English subtitles Genre: CQJ Year: 1968 Tint: B/W Code: SW4098 Retail: $15.00

This Night I Will Possess YourCorpse
"Video Watchdog" calls this "a three-fisted punch of Salvador Dali surrealism, Jess Franco fiendishness and William Castle gimmickry that makes most other 60s horror look sheepish by comparison." Joe finds a honey who doesn't mind being mistress of the Devil.
Directed by: JOSE MOJICA MARINS
Starring: Coffin Joe
Subs: English subtitles Genre: CQJ Year: 1966 Tint: B/W C Code: SW4607 Retail: $15.00

When the Gods Fall Asleep
This sequel to "The End of Man" finds Finis Hominis just out of the nearest asylum and ready to take charge. He marches up to the nearest band of Macumba worshippers and demands to know just who they think they are!
Directed by: JOSE MOJICA MARINS
Starring: Coffin Joe
Subs: English subtitles Genre: CQJ Year: 1972 Tint: Color Code: SW5228 Retail: $15.00