This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (Esta noite encarnarei no teu cadaver)
Directed by Jose Mojica Marins
Written by Aldenora De Sa Porto and Jose Mojica Marins
1967?Brazil
Iberica Filmes
First viewing/YouTube
They Shoot Zombies Don’t They?
[box] Zé do Caixão: There’s the most perfect creation of nature: children! Pity that they grow up to become idiots. In search of nothing. Lost in a Labyrinth of egoism… and dominated by a non-existent force: the faith in the immortality of the spirit. Man in his stupidity doesn’t comprehend the only truth of life: the immortality of blood.[/box]
Now this is how you make horror on a shoestring budget.
Coffin Joe (portrayed by the director), having survived the first part of the trilogy, is still on the lookout for a “superior woman” to bear his “perfect” son. He abducts several of them but all but one fails his “superiority” test by showing fear while being covered with tarantulas and snakes. The one who passes isn’t good enough for him either. Then he meets the thoroughly evil daughter of a colonel and finds his match. Can the town ever rid itself of this scourge? Complete with weird Technicolor scenes of Hell.
You don’t need a monster when you have a character as truly creepy as Coffin Joe. I liked this bizarre little film quite a bit. Recommended to horror fans.
