Coffin Joe (1963)
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
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At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, hd, José Mojica Marins, This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, hd, José Mojica Marins, This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse
@baratacom
Not really. Death (despite what Shakespeare might say) is a singular event, an end point. Dying is the beginning of death because at that point the body begins terminal cessation of function. However, that too is an isolated condition.
Life begins and the body develops, grows, becomes more adaptable and more…well, alive (or at least more aware of life).
In short, Joe made a bit of a categorical error when he said that .
Joe’s little statement is probably poetic (in an emo, whiney way), but it is not logical from a philosophical or scientific point of view.
That scene where Joe pokes out a guy’s eyes reminds me of the War of the Worlds TV series.
The hell scene reminds me of hell depicted in the game Requiem: Avenging Angel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTi5yMKG5uQ
Body parts sticking out everywhere.. Might be the games source of inspiration.
It’s hilarious to see people trying to take a ‘logical’ high ground about this line about death. Joe ‘made a categorical error’? Heh, okay man.
when he says “life is the begginning of death” he aint using the tecnical or scientific term “life” or “death”. He just says that each day you live you come closer to your ultimate destiny, death, wich he wants to “avoid”, by impregnating a woman, so their child (children are a way to you still “live”, as they will always carrie a part of their parents inside of them) could procede with his legacy of evil.
denial of god, or of its power and victory, is a regular quote of the devil or possesed people in roman catholic stories or in popular culture…
you know “deny your maker” stuff
It’s not emo or whiney, it is only a cheap/silly scare statement of early 60s. you must also think that back in 1962, 92% of brazililians were catholic, very devout, so the movie give a middle finger for religious stuff and to the conservative culture , to shock and scare. nowadays it wouldn’t work, 50% of catholics are “non-practicing”, just some new radical religious would complain about it.
a funny thing is that very few people have ever watched one of his movies, cause our conservative military dictatorship censored them for 20 years, while many old-facist or conservative critics condemned his movies, but people easily recognize him and know his name…
that’s a pretty pimp hat he’s got. no wonder chicks dig him.
take note kids, hats are everything. you gotta pimp hat everything else falls into place.
Good review James!
Luis,
You make an excellent point. Censorship does have the tendency to make things more desirable (like when the Communist Chinese government banned Ben-Hur only for it to end up as one of the most widespread illegal movies in the totalitarian state today)
Building on what I said previously, I visited an underground church there during my time doing mission work in China, and my host showed me his VHS copy of Ben Hur,signed by Heston himself, that a friend had smuggled in for him.
Sorry for the triple posting, but I just had to say, I saw some documentary clips about Jose Marins (the guy who plays Coffin Joe) and he’s awesome! You could probably do at least a week of Monster Madness dedicated to the far out stuff he’s done.
I had to go on a road trip to San Fran just to buy this DVD after watching this Review. Totally worth it !!!
What a buzzkill to your reviews, having an end advertisement of a 6 year old talking back to her mother. These films look balls to the wall, and seriously, like asian horror, spanish horror doesn’t seem to hold back!
IFC shows the coffin joe saga all the time (not inclueding the 2008 film),
i love thes films there so enjoyabul to watch
@ Hammerpants: Fuck you! Mission work in China? That’s well disrespectful towards the PRC. Also, you post too much and sicken me.
Hi, James! I’m a huge fan of your reviews.
I’m honored to see your Coffin’s Joe review as I’m brazilian.
Here in Brazil he is definitely the Lord of Horror. And his work is also huge, lots of movies.
It’s so nice to see our national artists doing good outside the country.
Congratulations for all your work!
Now this is a classic horror icon!
Geez, settle down dude.
Geez, settle down dude.
Geez, settle down dude.
DING DING DING IT’S THE BIG FIGHT NORMAN BATES VS COFFIN JOE WHO WOULD WIN HITCHCOCKS CREATION FROM THE BOOK OR THE BRAZIL DIRECTOR /ACTOR JOSE MOJICA MARINS PLACE YOUR BETS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AMERICAN PSYCHO VS SOUTH AMERICAN PSYCHO.
Disrespectful? No. Nothing in his/her posts was disrespectful (and believe me, the oppressive actions of the PRC DESERVE disrespect and derision).
You? You sicken me Chris-R. I’ve seen your ignorant, hateful, homophobic bullshit on this site before. YOU are a person whose brand of bile we need less of. YOU are the one who needs to post less (preferably never again).
The top hat/mustache combo is something that few men can pull off successfully. Mr. Marins is one of those men who can AND at the same time, manage to be scary as all hell too.
A true legend.
Gotta love US. Extreme violence, guns, guts, decapitation? No probs! but wait … OMG A BOOB!!! NOOOOO!!! QUICK!!!!
… Holy shit.