Writer, director, and actor José Mojica Marins singlehandedly inaugurated Brazilian horror cinema in 1964 when he released At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul. This surprisingly gruesome gothic concoction introduced unsuspecting audiences to the indelible figure of Coffin Joe, a nefarious undertaker with a black top hat and cape, uncannily long fingernails, and a bloodthirsty life philosophy that’s part Friedrich Nietzsche, part Marquis de Sade. Over the next four decades, Coffin Joe would not only headline his own official trilogy but also turn up as a sometimes secondary character in numerous other films and TV shows, ultimately achieving the status of a national icon often called “the Brazilian Freddy Krueger.”
Arrow Video has assembled 10 of Mojica’s films in their staggeringly appointed new box set Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe. All of these titles have received striking new 4K restorations from original film elements, and Arrow has included many hours of bonus materials,...
Arrow Video has assembled 10 of Mojica’s films in their staggeringly appointed new box set Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe. All of these titles have received striking new 4K restorations from original film elements, and Arrow has included many hours of bonus materials,...
- 1/25/2024
- by Budd Wilkins
- Slant Magazine
Brazilian horror legend José Mojica Marins passed away in 2020, and now Arrow Video will be honoring the memory of “The Master” by bringing ten of his films to Blu-ray in a limited edition collector’s set that’s packed with special features! The street date for the set, which is called Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe, is November 28th, and copies can be pre-ordered through the Arrow Video website. Copies are also available through Amazon, Zavvi, and hmv in the UK and DiabolikDVD, Grindhouse Video, and Zavvi in North America.
Mojica’s 1964 film At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul was the first horror movie to come out of Brazil, and the film serves as a sort of character study of the worst human being on the planet, Mojica’s character Zé do Caixão, a.k.a. Coffin Joe. Despite how awful the guy is, Coffin Joe became a pop...
Mojica’s 1964 film At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul was the first horror movie to come out of Brazil, and the film serves as a sort of character study of the worst human being on the planet, Mojica’s character Zé do Caixão, a.k.a. Coffin Joe. Despite how awful the guy is, Coffin Joe became a pop...
- 8/30/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
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