The sadistic atheist Zé do Caixão(José Mojica Marins)returns, this time with a hunchback assistant Bruno(Jose Lobo), still trying to find a woman to bare him a child(this child, he feels will give birth to immortal blood).
Certain women are disappearing and it's obvious who is behind the kidnapping. Zé has chosen these women to determine which is willing to carry his child. He releases spiders on them as they are sleeping as a test of their courage. All the women reply to the spiders with shock but one..that being Marcia(Nadia Freitas). Marcia is chosen while the other women(save one, who becomes Bruno's "birthday present" for which he accidentally snaps her neck when she begins to struggle with him)are placed in a snake-pit to die. Marcia eventually shows a weakness(her love for Zé for which he can not bear..he doesn't like dramatics), but Zé spares her life because she showed courage before. Marcia will remain loyal to Zé for a large period, even assisting him in tricking Truncador, the strongman(Antonio Fracari)who often is out-dueled psychologically by Zé. Eventually, Zé finds his mate and "carrier" of the great child he feels will lead the way of a brand new race of non-believing people who denounce God and embrace life without attachment. Laura(Tina Wohlers), the Colonel's daughter, arrives into town and immediately takes up with Zé. She doesn't believe in anything but Zé and this will be her downfall. Even after Zé crushes Laura's brother's head with a large rock, she still remains just as loyal risking the scorns of others for him. Soon, mental torments plague Zé as the announcement of one of the women he killed in the snake-pit claims she'll return from the dead to get her revenge telling him that he will never have a son born in this world. As tension mounts in the village, Zé will eventually be found out as the killer of the missing women and have to deal with a maddened crowd wanting him dead.
Two problems with this one I had. Laura just arrives and yet having never met Zé before just up and devotes her life and soul to him. It doesn't add up. Another is the snake-pit sequence which isn't very convincing because the actresses portraying the victims attacked don't sell it well. But, the "tortures of hell" nightmare sequence Zé suffers is an unintentional laugh riot. And, the ending is quite heavy-handed, yet eerie at the same time. Still, the film retains it's nasty edge from the previous film and that creepy atmosphere around the graves and forests remains one of the film's main strengths. This film is, however, much more cheesy than the first.
Certain women are disappearing and it's obvious who is behind the kidnapping. Zé has chosen these women to determine which is willing to carry his child. He releases spiders on them as they are sleeping as a test of their courage. All the women reply to the spiders with shock but one..that being Marcia(Nadia Freitas). Marcia is chosen while the other women(save one, who becomes Bruno's "birthday present" for which he accidentally snaps her neck when she begins to struggle with him)are placed in a snake-pit to die. Marcia eventually shows a weakness(her love for Zé for which he can not bear..he doesn't like dramatics), but Zé spares her life because she showed courage before. Marcia will remain loyal to Zé for a large period, even assisting him in tricking Truncador, the strongman(Antonio Fracari)who often is out-dueled psychologically by Zé. Eventually, Zé finds his mate and "carrier" of the great child he feels will lead the way of a brand new race of non-believing people who denounce God and embrace life without attachment. Laura(Tina Wohlers), the Colonel's daughter, arrives into town and immediately takes up with Zé. She doesn't believe in anything but Zé and this will be her downfall. Even after Zé crushes Laura's brother's head with a large rock, she still remains just as loyal risking the scorns of others for him. Soon, mental torments plague Zé as the announcement of one of the women he killed in the snake-pit claims she'll return from the dead to get her revenge telling him that he will never have a son born in this world. As tension mounts in the village, Zé will eventually be found out as the killer of the missing women and have to deal with a maddened crowd wanting him dead.
Two problems with this one I had. Laura just arrives and yet having never met Zé before just up and devotes her life and soul to him. It doesn't add up. Another is the snake-pit sequence which isn't very convincing because the actresses portraying the victims attacked don't sell it well. But, the "tortures of hell" nightmare sequence Zé suffers is an unintentional laugh riot. And, the ending is quite heavy-handed, yet eerie at the same time. Still, the film retains it's nasty edge from the previous film and that creepy atmosphere around the graves and forests remains one of the film's main strengths. This film is, however, much more cheesy than the first.