Oh good! You found us.
We're an on-demand movie theater where you can discover hand-picked films from festivals and collections around
the world. We make it easy for you to find films you'll love, no matter what your interests are.
After serving a forty-year prison term, Zé do Caixão (aka Coffin Joe) is finally released from the Mental Heath wing of the São Paulo State Penitentiary. Back on the streets, the sadistic undertaker is set upon fulfilling the goal which sent him to jail in the first place: find a woman who can give him the perfect child. Accompanied by his faithful servant, the humpbacked Bruno, Coffin Joe leaves behind a trail of horror and is haunted by ghostly visions and the spirits of his past victims. EMBODIMENT OF EVIL completes the so-called "Coffin Joe Trilogy" (of which AT MIDNIGHT I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL and THIS NIGHT I'LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE are a part). While it would be ideal to see those particular films first and though EMBODIMENT OF EVIL often references them, it is possible to follow the scant details of the plot without familiarity with the earlier films.
GENRES
Cast & Crew
Festivals
- Awards & Accolades
- Best International Film Nominee Fantasia International Film Festival 2009
Related Films
-
A Zed and Two Noughts
“Two legs look so good together, don’t you think?” A masterpiece of modern cinema, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is Peter Greenaway’s beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba...Start your free trial to watch
-
Careful
Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents (adult, child and animal!) must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences....Start your free trial to watch
-
Lemora
A notorious bank robber kills his wife and flees the police only to be captured by a mysterious group of figures in an abandoned town. His beautiful daughter, Lila Lee (played by the late Cheryl “Rainbeaux” Smith), receives a letter stating that Lila’s father is near death and that he needs to see her. Sneaking away at night...Start your free trial to watch
-
Mad Cowgirl
Sarah Lassez delivers a star-making performance as Therese, an ass-kicking health inspector with a failed marriage, an on-going affair with a creepy televangelist, nymphomania and an obsession with old kung-fu movies. Further complicating her life is a very questionable relationship with her brother Thierry (James Duval), a...Start your free trial to watch
Reviews
(see the best reviews)Join the conversation. Log in or subscribe to write a review!
Having seen and enjoyed several of the Coffin Joe films of the 60's and 70's, I really looked forward to this one. Well worth the wait! Definitely not for the squeamish. In this era of SAW and HOSTEL, it was bound to get pretty graphic, and boy does it ever. However, the best thing about the film (besides Coffin Joe himself) is Marins' vivid imagination. Joe is no Freddy or Jason - he's a psychopathic killer, make no mistake, but he's also a flawed human being who actually shows signs of having a conscience. The sequences where he is haunted by the spirits of those he had done wrong in the past are very imaginatively and effectively done. It's also interesting to note that Joe is a true atheist - he believes neither in God nor the Devil (I've seen him described as a "devil worshipper" which is utterly laughable). It's these thoughtful touches that lift this and the other Coffin Joe films out of the rather tedious "slasher" realm into a different plane of existence. Highly recommended!
