José Mojica Marins

José Mojica Marins

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Biography

José Mojica Marins (March 13, 1936 - February 19, 2020) was a Brazilian filmmaker, actor, composer, screenwriter, television and media personality. His interest in filmmaking began at an early age. When Marins was three, his father ran a local cinema, and the family lived in a flat above the theater. Marins is also known by his alter ego Coffin Joe (loosely translated from Zé do Caixão). Although Marins is known primarily as a horror film director, his earlier works were Westerns, dramas and adventure films.

Filmography Movies

Acting

Poster for The Good Cinema

The Good Cinema

An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.

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The Good Cinema

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Embodiment of Evil

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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Embodiment of Evil

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This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

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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This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

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At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

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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At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

Poster for Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

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A Lasanha Assassina: A Revolta das Massas

Rebeca and her family move into an abandoned house with a sinister past. Her father wants to renovate the house and turn it into a rotisserie. With the help of her neighbor Lucas, Rebeca discovers that the former residents were attacked by a strange creature: The Killer Lasagna. The monster gains strength and grows as it feeds on the remains of food thrown down the pipes and, at the opening of the cantina, the Lasagna will attack again.

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A Lasanha Assassina: A Revolta das Massas

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Cult of Terror

A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic cinema; a whole international spiritual community united under the cathartic shadow of horror.

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Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

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O Beijo na Morte

Tiny film made for the "1-minute Film Festival". When the death comes, it is time to kiss her.

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O Beijo na Morte

Narrador Convidado

A espiritualidade e a sinucaMOVIE

A espiritualidade e a sinuca

Poster for The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures

The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures

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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The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures

Production

Poster for This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

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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This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

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This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

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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This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

Poster for At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

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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At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

Poster for This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

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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This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

Poster for At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

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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At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

Poster for Embodiment of Evil

Embodiment of Evil

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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Embodiment of Evil

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Embodiment of Evil

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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Embodiment of Evil

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48 Hours of Hallucinatory Sex

After seeing the film "24 Horas de Sexo Explícito", Dr Margaret, sexologist hires the same crew to make a new movie, doubling the time - an orgy which would last for 48 hours, to further her research on sex. But as the film progresses it is revealed that she may have an ulterior goal in coaxing her actors into their drugged and sexually frenzied states.

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48 Hours of Hallucinatory Sex

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The End of Man

A naked stranger emerges from the sea to perform miracles in a nearby town and become a modern messiah whose deeds will affect the whole world.

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The Awakening of the Beast

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

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The Awakening of the Beast

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José Mojica Marins portrait

José Mojica Marins portrait

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