Review of Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind

To those who say "Delirios de um amoral" has no plot all I can say is that you weren't paying attention. To wit: a shrink in an un-named Brazilian asylum goes insane, having bizarre halucinations that "Ze do Caixo" (Coffin Joe)wants to take his wife and make love to her, producing a "superior being" of some sort. In between those halucinations, "Dr. AM-il-TON" sees Ze do Caixo torture people (a good fake finger eating and toungue-pulling happen near the end); walk though a dark tunnel made of faces, buttocks, breasts, and bellies; make women appear and disappear in black and white; all while we see the good doctor standing in front of a black background making horrified faces. Hamilton's associates at the asylum call Jose Mojica Marins (maker of the other Coffin Joe movies) to appear before him to break the delirium, and the director does. I'm not telling how it ends, or even if it does. In this surrealistic world (all of Hamiliton's delirium - or is it?), we see the sort of earthy symbolism of Frieda Kahlo and the sort of paintings you can buy on Tijuana street corners. Women as goddesses or demons, the power of wierd little men wearing capes and top hats whose eyebrows expand and contract and who can speak in echo, bizarre set pieces like those listed above - all of it would have made a great mural; instead we get a good sleaze film.