Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe (Blu-ray)

Inside the Mind of Coffin JoeBox Set with Book (Restored Limited Edition)Genre: HorrorsLabel: Arrow VideoDescription: Cultural icon anti-establishment statement sadistic lord of carnival horror! With his iconic long fingernails top hat and cape Zé do Caixao (Coffin Joe) was the creation of Brazilian filmmaker José Mojica Marins who wrote directed and starred in a series of outrageous movies from 1964 to 2008. An unholy undertaker in search of the perfect woman to propagate his bloodline Zé do Caixao made his screen debut with the first Brazilian-produced horror film At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul. Three years later his quest would continue in This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse with Zé embarking on an even more brutal campaign of terror aided and abetted by his hunchbacked assistant. The Strange World of Coffin Joe meanwhile is an anthology of three short horror films featuring a strange dollmaker a necrophiliac balloon seller with a foot fetish and a psychotic professor involved in sadistic rituals. Sex perversion and sadism abound in The Awakening of the Beast as a psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD in this surreal examination of 60s drug culture. Diverging from horror toward satirical black comedy The End of Man sees a naked stranger emerge from the sea to perform miracles in a nearby town and become a modern messiah whose deeds will affect the whole world. Rarely-seen sequel When the Gods Fall Asleep continues this blackly comic trajectory as our messianic cult figure sets out to right wrongs expose corruption and end social unrest. The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures brings Zé do Caixao back to the screen as the proprietor of an isolated guest house where on a dark and stormy night an eclectic group of strangers seek shelter. In Hellish Flesh Dr George Medeiros is a brilliant scientist but a neglectful husband whose wife takes a lover and plans to murder George for his fortune but the doctor is only disfigured and returns with a plan for revenge! Meanwhile in Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind the colleagues of a psychiatric doctor driven to insanity by nightmare visions of Zé do Caixao enlist the character's creator José Mojica Marins to convince the patient that Zé does not exist - but all is not as it seems! Finally in Embodiment of Evil Marins returns to the role that made his name one last time as Zé do Caixao emerges onto the streets of Sao Paulo in 2008 haunted by ghostly visions and the spirits of past victims and still in pursuit of the woman who can give him the perfect child. Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe is a love letter to one of the great iconoclasts of horror who forged his films in the face of military dictatorship and religious censorship to become Brazil's national Boogeyman.<br/>