Embodiment Of Evil (DVD)

Embodiment of Evil is a rather controversial Brazillian horror film, that is the third in the Coffin Joe trilogy, which also included the 1960s Grindhouse-style films At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul and This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse. We see a flashback that tells us that Coffin Joe (José Mojica Marins) miraculously survived drowning in a swamp at the end of the last film, and now, 40 years later, is sitting in a mental facility. He is released from imprisonment at the start of the film, and decides to go about finding a woman to continue his bloodline as per his obsession in the previous films. Although there's a sadistic streak in this film ...  Read the complete review

My Thoughts Wow! I don't really quite know where to begin to tell you how awful this film really is. After seeing orphan and drag me to hell, I was very impressed with them both. I was on the look out for another film. With hopes of finding one as good as they both were. Even though I have never liked horror films overly much. After seeing both of those films, it has made me want to see more. So I flicked through all the options on virgin media's on demand section and decided to give this film a try and I wish that I hadn't. If it wasn't for the fact that I knew I was going to review it afterwards. I would of turned it off within the first few minutes ...  Read the complete review

A review of the Anchor Bay DVD, which costs about £10 on amazon at the moment. Brazil in the 60s produced one enduring horror star, even though most European and US fans only discovered him in the last ten years or so. José Mojica Marins played Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe) in quite a few films. A violent, sacrilegious gravedigger, Zé had a distinctive look (black cloak and hat, beard, ridiculously long fingernails), and the films, directed by Marins himself, are amazing (well, the early ones are). At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964) and This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967) are intense, a bit silly, genuinely unsettling, and unlike anything else I've ...  Read the complete review