At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul is great, a classic.

And it is Coffin Joe in the second clip, yes. I suppose it’s a scene from This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse, the sequel to At Midnight…

Comparing Jose Mojica Marins to Ed Wood is insulting.

Marins is a master of surrealist horror, and shows more creativity in his films than Hollywood asshats like Michael Bay could ever dream of mustering.

And when viewed with the budgetary restraints Marins worked with in mind, his films are rather remarkable achievements.

Just a small correction: Jason was from Friday the 13th, not Halloween.

@VidVicious,

Thanks! Corrected now.

RM

Coop never told me he was a Brazilian film star, WTF?

That cropped image is taken from the poster for the Coffin Joe screening we put on this summer in Toronto, through Rue Morgue magazine (rue-morgue.com).

You can see the entertaining Q&A with him here: http://rue-morgue.com/blog/archives/2009/07/31/gore-met-and-the-coffin-joe-qa/

If you’re a CJ fan and like the poster, it’s available here: http://rue-morgue.com/shoppe_canada_posters.php

An entire issue on him here (scroll down): http://rue-morgue.com/shoppe_canada_issues.php

He also attended the premiere of his new film The Embodiment of Evil in Montreal for the FanTasia film festival. Footage of his wild appearance here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhFxWBfaWwo

The man is a unabashed misogynist, although he plays it up to be controversial. Comparisons to Ed Wood are inaccurate; he’s actually a very creative filmmaker given the conditions he worked under, not to mention a political radical who really pissed off the government.

And he’s been very influential in the genre. Embodiment of Evil is a jaw-dropping film. We watch a lot a horror movies at the mag and I’ve never seen anything like it. Definitely a few shades of Jodorowsky surrealism in there. Beautifully shot too.

The trailer will give you a taste of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzW8rO3Iz6k

Thanks for posting about him.