EMBODIMENT OF EVIL Photos
Veteran "trash" filmmaker-actor José Mojica Marins‘ Encarnação do Demônio / Embodiment of Evil (literally, "The Devil’s Incarnation"), one of the out-of-competition screenings at the 2008 Venice Film Festival, features the latest cinematic incarnation (bad pun intended) of Zé do Caixão ("Coffin Joe"), a demonic character that starred in a handful of Brazilian movies of the 1960s and 1970s, including Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver / Tonight I’ll Take Possession of Your Corpse (1967) and O Estranho Mundo de Zé do Caixão / The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968).
(According to Felipe M. Guerra at Boca do Inferno, Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver was butchered by Brazilian censors, who demanded that nudity and violence be excised, and that Zé do Caixão’s final speech be dubbed so the demonic villain would declare his final acceptance of Jesus Christ. In the original text, the unrepentant Zé proclaimed his atheism for all to hear.)
Marins, who turned 72 last March, also co-wrote the Embodiment of Evil screenplay with Dennison Ramalho. (The filmmaker actually began working on the script back in the ’60s, but due to a series of mishaps the project only came to fruition forty years later.) The story follows Zé do Caixão’s continuous search for the perfect woman so he can inseminate her and thus perpetuate his superior bloodline. In the cast: Marins (as Zé do Caixão), Cristina Aché, Raymond Castile, José Celso Martinez Corrêa (as the Antichrist), Rui Resende, Eduardo Chagas, and trash-flick veterans Débora Muniz and Jece Valadão.
Marins began his directorial career half a century ago. Among his more than thirty features are 48 Horas de Sexo Alucinante / 48 Hours of Hallucinatory Sex (1987), 24 Horas de Sexo Explícito / 24 Hours of Explicit Sex (1985), A Quinta Dimensão do Sexo / The Fifth Dimension of Sex (1984), Sexo e Sangue na Trilha do Tesouro / Sex and Blood on the Treasure Trail (1972), and À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma / At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964).
I should add that according to Felipe Guerra, José Mojica Marins is anything but a "trash" filmmaker. Guerra, in fact, calls Marins a "genius."
Embodiment of Evil opened in Brazil last August 8.
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wait……
is this a horror movie or a comedy…..
are we supposed to laugh or scream…..