Embodiment of Evil

Infobox Film
name = Encarnação do Demônio

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caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Jose Mojica Marins
producer = Caio Gullane
Fabiano Gullane
Débora Ivanov
Paulo Sacramento
writer = Jose Mojica Marins
Dennison Ramalho
starring = Jose Mojica Marins
Milhem Cortaz
music = André Abujamra
Márcio Nigro
cinematography = José Roberto Eliezer
editing = Paulo Sacramento
distributor =
released = 2008 (Brazil)
runtime =
country = BRA
language = Portuguese
budget =
preceded_by = "This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse"
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:411237
imdb_id = 0923683

"Embodiment of Evil" "(Original title: Encarnação do Demônio)" is a 2008 Brazilian horror film by Brazilian film director José Mojica Marins. Marins is also known by his alter ego "Zé do Caixão" "(Eng: Coffin Joe)". It is the third installment of his "Coffin Joe" trilogy. It is preceded by "At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1963)" and "This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967)".cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923683/|title=Encarnação do Demônio|publisher=IMDb|language=English|accessdate=2008-06-15]

The character Coffin Joe (Marins) is an evil, amoral undertaker whose singular obsession is to find the "perfect woman", one of a "superior" quality (primarily that of being able to endure torture tests), so that she may bear the child Coffin Joe feels will carry on his lineage. He has a general contempt for all people, and disdains and mocks all religion and philanthropy. He has a strong sense of entitlement to achieve his goals, and will exploit, maim and kill those who get in his way.

Released from a prison mental ward after 40 years, Coffin Joe renews his bloody quest for "continuation of the blood", the crime for which he was imprisoned in 1967. He returns the streets of São Paulo, seeking the "perfect" woman who is qualified to bear his "superior" child. He kidnaps and imprisons the most beautiful women in the town and puts them through sadistic tortures and tests as a measure of their superiority. Throughout these events, Coffin Joe is repeatedly haunted by the ghostly visions of his previous crimes, including Terezenhia and Antônio from "At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul".

Plot

Upon arriving at São Paulo, Coffin Joe finds shelter in an underground hideaway underneath a shanty town. The hideout is populated by a cult of psychotics under the leadership of Bruno (Rui Rezende). The cult has been anticipating Joe's arrival.

Coffin Joe sets out immediately on his quest for the perfect woman. With the aid of the cult, he seduces and imprisons Hilda, who is inflicted with punishments that include being administered drugs, mutilation, and cannibalism. He later kidnaps the young Elena, who he possesses under the crucified body of her blind aunt.

Being increasingly persecuted by the ghosts of his past crimes, Coffin Joe becomes more and more deranged. He attempts to cope with the visions by rationalizing that they are figments of his imagination. These vision finally result in Coffin Joe finding himself visiting a vision of Hell, a gruesome, intestine-like maze. There he is confronted by the Mystifier, who reveals to him disturbing and surrealistic horrors. Despite this terrifying experience, Joe continues to victimize helpless, beautiful women on his quest.

As in his quests decades before, Joe leaves behind a bloody trail of evidence of his crimes, and the local police try to Joe down and kill him, which necessitates his escape into an amusement park, pursued by old enemies, his victims' ghosts, and police. It is here that Coffin Joe meets his fate.

Cast

*José Mojica Marins as Coffin Joe
*Raymond Castile as Young Coffin Joe
*Jece Valadão as Coronel Claudiomiro Pontes
*Adriano Stuart as Captain Oswaldo Pontes
*Milhem Cortaz as Father Eugênio
*Rui Rizende as Bruno
*José Celso Martinez Corrêa as Mystifier
*Cristina Aché as Lucy Pontes
*Helena Ignez as Cabíria
*Débora Muniz as Lucrécia
*Thais Simi as Maíra
*Cléo De Páris as Dr. Hilda
*Nara Sakarê as Elena
*Giulio Lopes as Mário

Reception

During the "Paulinia Film Festival", held July 5-12, 2008 in Paulinia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Embodiment of Evil won 7 of 15 categories for fictional films. Marins was presented the awards of best film and the critics choice award. Other awards were best photography (José Roberto Eliezer), best film editing (Paulo Sacramento), best sound editing (Ricardo Reis), best soundtrack(André Abujamra and Márcio Nigro), best art direction (Cássio Amarante).cite web|url=http://ioncinema.com/news.php?nid=3212|title=World Report: Brazil|last=Braganca|first=Bruno|date=July 26, 2008|work=Brazil: At Home|publisher=IONCINEMA.com|language=|accessdate=2008-07-30] cite web|url=http://encarnacaododemonio.blog.uol.com.br/|title=Apocalipse Cinematografico Inicia-Se Em Paulinia|date=2008|publisher=UOL.com|language=Portuguese|accessdate=2008-07-30]

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0923683|title=Embodiment of Evil
*imdb name|id=0596261|name=José Mojica Marins
*amg title|id=1:411237|title=Embodiment of Evil
* [http://www.encarnacaododemonio.com.br/ Official film site] en icon pt icon
* [http://www2.uol.com.br/zedocaixao/ Official Coffin Joe site] pt icon