Mojia Marins' name has become an icon of Horror and identified with his alter ego, the character Coffin Joe who features in several of his films.

Thanks to the re-masterization of his work, we have been able to bring a selection of titles for DVD distribution in the international market, and now licensed to over 20 countries. Rights available for TV and DVD.

His life is documented in the fabulous 'The Strange World of Coffin Joe' Sundance award winning documentary which is also available.

Titles in the Mojica Marins' Cult Horror Collection

'At Midnight I will take your Soul'
'This Night I will enter your Corpse'
'The Awakening of the Beast'
'Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind'
'The Strange World of Coffin Joe'
'The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures'
'End of Man'

Plus Sundance Jury award documentary profile

'The Strange World of Mojica Marins'

Territories still available

The Most Censored Filmmaker in history

Mojica's style is idiosyncratically primitive Latin American, low budget and highly ingenious, and his filmography counts over 60 films - amongst them several which were under censorship in Brazil for many years.

He is often compared by critics as a symbiosis between Bunuel and Dario Argento and revered important international film critics. In 2002 the Cinematheque Francaise offered a lifetime achievements award to Mojica and he was guest of honor to several film festivals including San Sebastian and FantasPorto.


	THE AWAKENING OF THE BEAST
	O Despertar da Besta

To many, this is Mojica's masterpiece. It was certainly his most controversial film. Proof is, it was never allowed to be shown in Brazil and was kept in a shelf at the Censorship Board for over 20 years.

The film tells the story of a doctor who is conducting experiments with LSD. He injects the drug in four patients, only to analyze their reactions to "strong" subjects (the strongest of which, of course, is a Coffin Joe film).

This is one of the most radically innovative films ever shot in Brazil, not only in terms of substance but also style. A contemporary horror story, it deals with drugs, prostitution, police corruption, and the degradation of society as a whole.

91minutes
Black and White and Colour
1969

The ban to this film effectively ended Mojica's career as a horror director. Scared producers stopped hiring him, afraid that a new Coffin Joe film would also be prohibited by the Censorship Board. "The Awakening of the Beast" remains as an undiscovered gem of horror films.

'One of the most hallucinogenic experiences ever to wind up on celluloid!'
IMDB.com


	AT MIDNIGHT I WILL TAKE YOUR SOUL

Shot in only 13 days, on a shoestring budget with a cast of non-professional actors, it remains as an undisputed classic of Brazilian cinema and one of the biggest box-office successes in the country's history.

The film tells the story of Zé, an evil gravedigger who terrorizes a small town in his quest for the "perfect woman" that will bear him the "perfect child". Zé kills and tortures, only to be haunted by the spirits of his victims.

The film was banned in several states in Brazil, accused of violence and blasphemy.
Starring: Jose Mojica Marins as "Coffin Joe"

Black and white
81 mns
1964

At Midnight I will Take your Soul was the first film with the character of Coffin Joe and was also the first horror film produced in Brazil skyrocketing Mojica Marins to fame in Brazil and worldwide


	THE STRANGE WORLD OF COFFIN JOE

Based on a TV show which Mojica hosted in the 60's, this film presents Jose Mojica Marins fantastic universe in three distinctstories.

The Dollmaker
In the first narrative gangs invade the house of a doll maker, who lives alone with his beautiful daughters. The gang soon realise that they can get a lot more from these women than just money, even if they need to kill the old man. But the women put up a fight….and the dolls get revenge with their special gift of life… or is it death?

Obsession
The taboo subject of necrophilia is confronted in a narrative of unexpected poetry. A poor street balloon seller falls in love with a beautiful young woman who does not return his affection. When the young woman unexpectedly dies - the impossible happens and her death bed becomes their conjugal bed…

Ideology
A professor attempts to explain his bizzare theories of evolution to non believers. Proving that instinct is more powerful than love, he experiments on a couple emerged in a brutal and bloody relationship. Madness and cannibalism are the ingredients of a real "banquet from hell'. Not for the faint of heart.

Black and White
80 Minutes
1968


	THIS NIGHT I WILL ENTER YOUR CORPSE

Continuing his search for the "perfect woman", Zé kidnaps six women and submit them to all kinds of "tests", including tête-a-tête encounters with tarantulas and snakes (real ones, of course!).

The film has one of the most incredible scenes in the history of Brazilian film: a 12-minute, surrealist descent into hell, shot entirely in coloUr (the rest of the film is in black and white), that remains the pinnacle of Mojica's artistic vision.
Starring: Jose Mojica Marins as "Coffin Joe"

Black and white and colour
107 mins
1967

This Night I will Enter your Corpse is the sequel of At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul an even bolder, more radical film taking more risks.


	HALLUCINATIONS OF A DERANGED MIND
	Derlios de um Anormal

This film follows the life of a patient of a mental hospital who has horrible dreams about Coffin Joe. The doctors, unable to cure the patient, resort to the only man who can challenge Coffin Joe: his creator, José Mojica Marins.

This weird and creepy film sees creator and creature battling each other. The patient's nightmares are scenes from Mojica's most famous movies, making this a true "best of" film.

Crammed to the gills with some of the censored footage from Mojica Marins' previous films it is a shameless halucinogenic trip into the weird and wonderful and beyond.

Colour
83 minutes
1978

Trailer

'Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind is a a truly unforgettable viewing experience in which the boundaries between genius and madness, primitive atavism and sophisticated avant-gardism are truly confounded. Fans of horror, cult and underground cinemas owe it to themselves to track it down and see it at all costs… '

Kinocite.co.uk


	DOCUMENTARY STRANGE WORLD
	Sundance wward winning documentary

This is the first feature-length documentary about the life and career of José Mojica Marins, Brazil's most famous horror film director and one of the Third World's most idiosyncratic and radical artists.

Mojica is the creator of the character Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe), a true icon of horror movies.

In a career that covers half a century, Mojica directed over 40 features, as well as over 100 feature films. He also created comic books, plays, TV shows, radio programmes and even recorded a Samba record.

Mojica is the most censored filmmaker in Brazilian Cinema History. Several of his films were banned by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil between 1964 and 1985.

This documentary presents Mojica's version of his story, from his impoverished childhood in the suburbs of São Paulo, to the international recognition as one of the world's greatest horror directors, celebrated in countries such as Spain, France, Germany, Italy and United States.

The film features in-depth interviews with Mojica and his closest associates which reveal for the first time, the bizarre and sometimes tragic stories behind his movies, as well as Mojica's own problems with alcohol, the Military Censorship Board, and tarantulas.

There are dozens of clips from his striking movies, described by Billboard magazine as "cross between Russ Meyer and Luis Bunuel".

This documentary was directed by Andre Barcinski and Ivan Finotti, two Brazilian journalists who published in 1988, Mojica's biography "Maldito" ("The Damned") a best-seller in Brazil.

Year of Production 1999
Duration 66' (available as 52')

'Long-banned "Awakening," including a woman's nude defecation before several masked businessmen, and her fatal sexual penetration by a Moses impersonator's wooden staff. Even these surrealist outrages (which led some to dub Marins "the Brazilian Bunuel") are one-upped by graphic footage of his 1988 eye surgery.'

Variety