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Rather unexpectedly, Zé do Caixao/Coffin Joe (José Mojica Marins),
atheist, satanist and all-around badman, has apparently not died at the
end of At Midnight I'll
Take Your Soul after all, he is cleared of all of his crimes in
court due to lack of evidence, and even his eyesight is restored. So he
and his hunchback Bruno (Jose Lobo) move to a new village - to find the
perfect woman for Coffin Joe, the one who is destined to carry his son. So
they kidnap 6 women as possible candidates. But Coffin Joe doesn't just
rape them, he treats them like ladies - until one night, he releases a
bunch of spiders on them. Five of the girls freak out, only Marcia (Nadia
Freitas) stays calm, also because she knows it's part of a test and she's
fascinated by Coffin Joe. As a consequence, Joe takes Marcia to his
bedroom and throws the other five into his snakepit. But when he makes
love to Marcia while with the other girld dying in clear view, Marcia
finally freaks out, because this is a tad too much for her. To her own
surprise, Marcia lets her go just like that, because on one hand she has
shown courage even if she didn't prove to be his perfect girl, and on the
other hand because she's in love with him, which is why she will never
tell on him. Another of the girls Joe has kidnapped manages to curse him
with her dying breath though. Enter Marcia's cousin Laura (Tina
Wohlers): It's love at first sight between her and Coffin Joe, and she
shares all of his warped views. Laura's brother Claudio is against their
union though, so he tries to
persuade Joe to leave the region for good offering him money. Joe
pretends to accept but makes an elaborate plan to kill Claudio and put the
blame Laura's family's bodyguard Truncador (Antonio Fracari), a possible
threat for his plans, with the active assistance of Marcia, who's in
unconditional love with him despite everything. This works like a charm,
and Laura doesn't mind in the least that Joe killed her brother, neither.
So operation impregnation is put into action ...
At the local pub, Joe learns that the girl who has cursed him in the
snakepit was pregnant, which affects him more than a bit, because while he
couldn't care less about any adult he has ever met, he has a healthy
respect for children. Joe starts to dream of going to hell (a colour
sequence in anotherwise black and white movie) and starts to experience
haunting situations.
Meanwhile, Laura's father has freed Truncador from prison and ordered
him to bring him Coffin Joe - but Joe manages to kill Truncador and his
henchmen by luring them into the nearby swamp. Then though, Marcia is
overcome by guilt and she takes poison, and with her dying breath, she
confesses to the crimes she committed together with Coffin Joe. Now
Laura's dad forms a lynch mob to go after Coffin Joe while the doctor
loses both Laura and her child at childbirth.
All of his plans ruined, Coffin Joe finds himself on the run again, and
this time he is driven into the swamp, and while he sinks into his watery
grave, the bodies of the girls he has killed (and which he has dumped into
the swamp) come up again ...
If you liked At
Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, you will very probably like this
one, too: It's another horrorfilm with strong immoral undercurrents, a
healthy disregard for genre conventions and the occasional surreal
element. And it also has the raw quality of the earlier film, a quality
that can only in parts be explained away by the film's low budget, but
rather has to do with director Marins' own filmmaking energy.
Recommended.
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