Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver (1967)

Director:

José Mojica Marins

Writers:

Aldenora De Sa Porto (writer)
José Mojica Marins (writer)

Release Date:

13 March 1967 (Brazil)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

Coffin Joe is still looking for the perfect woman to give birth to a son of his, and, cleared of the...

Plot Keywords:

Coffin | Son | Funeral | Nightmare | Owl

Cast

José Mojica Marins	...	Zé do Caixão
Tina Wohlers	...	Laura
Nadia Freitas	...	Marcia
Antonio Fracari	...	Truncador
Jose Lobo	...	Bruno
Esmeralda Ruchel
Paula Ramos
Tania Mendonça
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Arlete Brazolin
Geraldo Bueno
José Carvalho
Oswaldo De Souza
Graveto
Lya Lagutte
Laércio Laurelli	...	Zé do Caixão (voice)
Nivaldo Lima
Carmen Marins
Mina Monte
William Morgan
Roque Rodrigues
Nadia Tell
José Vedovato

Also Known As:

This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse
This Night Will Make Your Corpse Incarnate
Tonight I Will Eat Your Corpse
Tonight I Will Enter Your Corpse
Tonight I Will Make Your Corpse Turn Red
Tonight I Will Paint in Flesh Colour
Cette nuit, je m'incarnerai dans ton cadavre (France) [fr]
Questa notte mi incarnerò nel tuo cadavere (Italy) [it]
Questa notte mi sono incarnato nel tuo cadavere (Italy) [it]

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

Brazil

Language:

Portuguese

Color:

Black and White | Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Ibérica Filmes

Quotes:

[first lines]
Zé do Caixão: Is life everything, and death nothing? Or is life nothing and death everything?

Movie Connections:

Featured in O Universo de Mojica Marins (1978)

The Citizen Kane of strange low budget Brazilian Horror movies!

Hose Mojica Marins is definitely a director whose films are many times overlooked. His character Coffin Joe is almost like the Freddy or Jason of Brazil. "This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse" is the second Coffin Joe film. After the evil undertaker has been cleared of his crimes, he's back to causing trouble yet again. He kidnaps beautiful women and looks to impregnate one of them to start a perfect race. After the ladies get tormented by spiders and snakes he kills them, leaving only one lady. What makes this scene horrifying is the 100 snakes and spiders that the actresses had to endure. The ghost of the one women vows to return from the dead and take vengeance on him, or is it just his imagination? It's never quite clear. Coffin Joe is an angry atheist who finally finds his evil mate which is the colonel's daughter. Even after him and his hunchback assistant smash her brother's head with a rock, she still likes him. She even skips her brother's funeral to get it on with him. The film's most memorable scene is it's surreal psychedelic ten minute Technicolor vision of hell. Death takes Coffin Joe to hell and he sees people scream in agony as they are whipped and tortured. In the scene fire, brimstone and snakes surround him wherever he goes. "This Night I'll Possess your Corpse" is chilling, gory, bizarre and subversive in it's religious and social themes. It's definitely a classic work of Brazialian cinema that deserves more attention.