Originally planning to watch the last of Anchor Bay's Coffin Joe DVD box set for the 2013 Horror Challenge on the IMDb Horror board,I found myself having to quickly change plans,due to having misplaced the box set in the run up to the event!
Finally finding the 'safe place' that I had put the set in,I decided to kick things off by taking a look at the most un- Horror Coffin Joe Horror film.
View on the film:
Made as a response to the Brazilian government's demands that no Horror titles could be made at the time,co-writer/ (along with Rubens Francissco Luchetti)director and lead actor Jose Mojica Marins cunningly makes sure that the film contains a Horror atmosphere by giving the movie an incredibly harsh soundtrack,which despite making the dialogue a bit tough to hear,does give the movie a grinding, warped sense of reality.
Toning down the Horror elements,writers Marins & Luchetti take a darkly comedic,cynical route for the film,thanks to Marins showing the groups of locals,hippies and government officials to be easily manipulated fools,who will believe anything that anyone says. With having gradually revealed their cynical nature in the titles running time,the writers knock the film out with a hilariously sharp final twist,as Joe puts his comedic nail into the coffin.
Finally finding the 'safe place' that I had put the set in,I decided to kick things off by taking a look at the most un- Horror Coffin Joe Horror film.
View on the film:
Made as a response to the Brazilian government's demands that no Horror titles could be made at the time,co-writer/ (along with Rubens Francissco Luchetti)director and lead actor Jose Mojica Marins cunningly makes sure that the film contains a Horror atmosphere by giving the movie an incredibly harsh soundtrack,which despite making the dialogue a bit tough to hear,does give the movie a grinding, warped sense of reality.
Toning down the Horror elements,writers Marins & Luchetti take a darkly comedic,cynical route for the film,thanks to Marins showing the groups of locals,hippies and government officials to be easily manipulated fools,who will believe anything that anyone says. With having gradually revealed their cynical nature in the titles running time,the writers knock the film out with a hilariously sharp final twist,as Joe puts his comedic nail into the coffin.