That the image of Coffin Joe – with his black beard, hat and cape; single, undulating eyebrow; and curling, claw-like fingernails – does not cause crackles of recognition and revulsion in cinemagoers everywhere in the world is something between a shame and a travesty. His off-screen alter ego, José Mojica Marins, is a trailblazer of Brazilian popular culture and a pitiless master of extreme cinema but, in some countries, his work has gone all but unseen. Now, for the first time, his Coffin Joe classics have been released in Great Britain – and they are a terrifying test for anyone who feels they can withstand whatever a horror film can inflict.
Aside from the expected mutilations, murders, massacres and dismemberments, these films feature: blasphemy, rape, necrophilia and drug abuse; eye surgery, suicide and Satanism; sadomasochistic sex, cannibalism (of the dead and still living) and a scene in which a man is spoon fed molten metal.
Aside from the expected mutilations, murders, massacres and dismemberments, these films feature: blasphemy, rape, necrophilia and drug abuse; eye surgery, suicide and Satanism; sadomasochistic sex, cannibalism (of the dead and still living) and a scene in which a man is spoon fed molten metal.
- 8/21/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Scott Jordan Harris)
- Fangoria
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