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)

This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse

This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Sequel to AT MIDNIGHT I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL, picks right up where that movie left off. Coffin Joe (Marins) survives his ordeal and is freed from all murder charges due to a lack of evidence. He heads back to a small town to search for a bride to give him a son and kidnaps several women for possible candidates but ends up killing the wrong one as she swears vengeance on his soul. Even though this here is a sequel, it does play out more like a remake as both films are pretty much the same story, although its drawn out more here. The film being drawn out to a whopping 107-minutes is the real downfall because it could have lost a good fifteen or twenty-minutes and the pacing would have been much better. With that said, there's still plenty to enjoy here with Marins once again doing a great job on such a small budget. The budget is obviously bigger than the previous film but I'd say the majority of it was spent on the highlight of the film, which is an amazing sequence where Coffin Joe goes to Hell. This is when the film switches over the color and how they created the look of this secret really had my brain rambling in trying to figure it out. The only way I can explain the colors are if you've ever seen a melted bag of Skittles. The way this sequence comes off is never scary but it's certainly an amazing treat for the eyes as not only do we get the great color but we also get all sorts of strange stabbings, beatings and various other bad deeds being carried out by Satan himself. Marins once again gives a great performance and the supporting cast are decent enough for what they have to do. It's worth noting that the kidnapped women were all very brave considering they had to let spiders and snakes all over them. One woman on the bed was obviously terrified as can be seen with her extremely heavy breathing. The ending packs a nice little punch as well as the music score. Fans of the first film will certainly want to check this one out and while it's not as good as the first, it does have enough going for it to make it worth viewing.