Taking a look on Amazon UK for reviews of Anchor Bay's 9 film Coffin Joe boxset,I was taken aback,when I stumbled on a Coffin Joe title which had not been included in the set,which led to me deciding that I would pay a visit to Coffin Joe for one more time.
The plot:
Getting released from jail after 40 years thanks to no longer being seen as a threat to the public,Coffin Joe breaks out of his chains,and reunites with his faithful servant,Bruno.With prison having stopped him in his tracks for 40 years,Joe begins kidnapping women in the hope that he will finally locate a woman who will have his child.As Joe starts to strike in his search for the perfect woman,the local residence of the town begin to hear that Coffin Joe is walking their streets again.Since they have each waited to get their revenge on Coffin Joe due to him having killed their families,the residence begin to make 'death squads' so that they can finally nail Coffin Joe's coffin shut,once and for all.
View on the film:
Toning down the harsh Gothic Horror atmosphere of his past work,and being unexpectedly backed by a major studio (20th Century Fox!) co- writer/ (along with Dennison Ramalho) director and lead actor José Mojica Marins sends his alter ego out on a blood-drenched final rampage. Marins covers the screen in raw blood red,as Coffin Joe goes from ordering his followers to do a deranged initiation,to riffing on the most infamous scene in Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho (which was seen as being far too nasty for inclusion in the filmed adaptation. )
Whilst Marins does largely go for a splatter approach,Marins superbly wraps up his 40 year old characters quest by dipping his nails into wonderful surrealism,with Marins using a tough B&W appearance to show the demons that haunt Joe's desire.For the screenplay of the film,Ramalho and Marins combined Joe's blood-soaked quest with a sharp political commentary,with Joe's return leading to the return of Brazil's death squad,with the members of the death squad being almost as psychotic as Coffin Joe.
Final view on the film:
A very good,gore drenched Horror which allows Coffin Joe to finally lay in his coffin.Farewell Coffin Joe.
The plot:
Getting released from jail after 40 years thanks to no longer being seen as a threat to the public,Coffin Joe breaks out of his chains,and reunites with his faithful servant,Bruno.With prison having stopped him in his tracks for 40 years,Joe begins kidnapping women in the hope that he will finally locate a woman who will have his child.As Joe starts to strike in his search for the perfect woman,the local residence of the town begin to hear that Coffin Joe is walking their streets again.Since they have each waited to get their revenge on Coffin Joe due to him having killed their families,the residence begin to make 'death squads' so that they can finally nail Coffin Joe's coffin shut,once and for all.
View on the film:
Toning down the harsh Gothic Horror atmosphere of his past work,and being unexpectedly backed by a major studio (20th Century Fox!) co- writer/ (along with Dennison Ramalho) director and lead actor José Mojica Marins sends his alter ego out on a blood-drenched final rampage. Marins covers the screen in raw blood red,as Coffin Joe goes from ordering his followers to do a deranged initiation,to riffing on the most infamous scene in Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho (which was seen as being far too nasty for inclusion in the filmed adaptation. )
Whilst Marins does largely go for a splatter approach,Marins superbly wraps up his 40 year old characters quest by dipping his nails into wonderful surrealism,with Marins using a tough B&W appearance to show the demons that haunt Joe's desire.For the screenplay of the film,Ramalho and Marins combined Joe's blood-soaked quest with a sharp political commentary,with Joe's return leading to the return of Brazil's death squad,with the members of the death squad being almost as psychotic as Coffin Joe.
Final view on the film:
A very good,gore drenched Horror which allows Coffin Joe to finally lay in his coffin.Farewell Coffin Joe.