Embodiment of Evil (2008)

Original title

Encarnação do Demônio

Directed by

José Mojica Marins

Genre

horror film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

NC-17

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

After 40 years locked in a psychiatric prison ward, a sadistic undertaker is released in modern-day São Paulo. He immediately goes back to his obsessive search for the perfect woman to bear his son.

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What happens

Embodiment of Evil (Portuguese: Encarnação do Demônio, lit. 'Incarnation of the Demon') is a 2008 Brazilian horror film directed by and starring José Mojica Marins. The film was co-written with Dennison Ramalho. It is the third installment in his Coffin Joe trilogy, featuring Mojica Marins reprising his role as Zé do Caixão (in English, Coffin Joe). The film is preceded by At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964) and This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967). A flashback scene in the film reveals that the young Coffin Joe (portrayed in the scene by Raymond Castile) survived after submerging in a swamp at the end of the previous film. After serving 40 years in a prison mental ward, Coffin Joe (José Mojica Marins) is released to the streets of modern-day São Paulo. Immediately after his release, Coffin Joe renews his lifelong obsession to sire a male child with a woman whom he perceives to be of exceptional qualities capable of continuing his bloodline, which he feels to be "superior" above all others. Embodiment of Evil was filmed over roughly forty days at various locations in São Paulo. Like Mojica Marins' previous films, the effects are largely performed by hand rather than provided through computer generation. The film premiered in Brazilian theaters on August 8, 2008 and screened in twenty festivals worldwide despite its poor box office performance. It won awards at five festivals, and was nominated for awards at two others. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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