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A Reencarnacao do Sexo
Mortal Possession: The Reincarnation of Sex
Brazil 1982
produced by
Cláudio Cunha, Marcos Rossi (executive) for Brasil Internacional Cinematográfica
directed by Luiz Castellini
starring Patrícia Scalvi, Arthur Roveder, Roque Rodrigues, Lia Farrel, Roberto Miranda, Emil Grigoletto, Célia Santos, Fábio Vilalonga, Lígia de Paula, Ana Maria Kreisler, Eudes Carvalho, Flávio Porto, Mário Vaz Filho, Salete Fracarolli
story by Giovanni Boccaccio, screenplay by Luiz Castellini, music by Vangelis, Penderecki, Pierre Henry
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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After finding his daughter Patricia (Patricia Scalvi) in bed with
gardener Arthur (Arthur Roveder), rich landowner Antonio (Roque Rodrigues)
takes Arthur for a ride ... and busts his head in with an ax. He tells his
daughter though Arthur has made off with his money, which she has problems
to believe. But then the ghost of Arthur leads her to where his body is
buried. She digs him up with the help of her mother (Lia Farrel), and the
two women burn the corpse, only keep his head buried in a flowerpot in
Patricia's room. However, Patricia never recovers from the shock of
finding her lover dead ... 10 years later, Célia (Célia Santos) and
Fábio (Fábio Vilalonga) rent the place, and once they have moved in,
Célia discovers an unquenchable sex drive, anbd she's pretty much
shagging Fábio to exhaustion - then she stabs him dead, just like
Arthur's spirit told her. The next tenant, Ligia (Ligia de Paula) is a
lesbian, much to the dismay of Arthur, who makes the ghost of Patricia
kill her lesbian lover. Then he turns Célia into a right little slut,
picking up truck drivers at a nearby road. But eventually, witnessing the
ghost of Patricia stabbing one of her lovers scares her to death,
literally. Célia's friend, psychiatrist Roberto (Roberto Miranda)
decides to investigate the goings-on in Antonio's house, and he arrives
just as a hippie sex orgy is turning into a bloodbath. Despite his best
efforts though, he is also killed by the ghost of Patricia, but leaves
those who arrive shortly after, alarmed by his girlfriend, a good clue
that everything bad that happens here is somehow related to the severed
head in the flowerpot. Mortal
Possession: The Reincarnation of Sex might not exactly a good film,
but it's a totally silly and enjoyably nonsense combination of horror and
softcore sex cinema. The story might have a solid build-up - but the
longer the movie goes the less the story movies forward and eventually it
just becomes a random series of sex and murder scenes, the murders
performed sometimes by possessed people sometimes by ghosts, but all
lacking depth or narrative necessity. Now you might say this is just bad
... but it's also fun to watch, mainly for its narrative flaws and
somewhat weird finale (which I admittedly am not sure I've caught right).
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