Trilogy of Terror (1968 film)

Infobox Film
name = Trilogy of Terror


caption = Original Brazilian film poster
director = Jose Mojica Marins
Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias
producer = Renato Grechi
Antonio Polo Galante
writer = Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias
Rubens Francisco Luchetti
starring =
music = Damiano Cozzella
Rogerio Duprat
cinematography = Giorgio Attili
Oswaldo de Oliveira
Peter Overbeck
editing = Nilcemar Leyart
distributor = Produções Cinematográficas Zé do Caixão
released = April 22, 1968
runtime = 102 min
country = BRA
language = Portuguese
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0063721

"Trilogy of Terror" (original title: "Trilogia de Terror") is a 1968 Brazilian horror film by Brazilian film director/actor José Mojica Marins. Marins is also known by his alter ego Zé do Caixão (in English, Coffin Joe).cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063721/|title=Trilogia de Terror|publisher=IMDb|language=English|accessdate=2008-07-04]

The film consists of 3 stories adapted from the Brazilian TV series "Além, Muito Além do Além" (Beyond, Much Beyond the Beyond): "O Acordo" (The Agreement), "A Procissão dos Mortos" (Procession of Dead), and "Pesadelo Macabro" (Macabre Nightmare).cite web|url=http://www2.uol.com.br/zedocaixao/cinema/08_trilogia_do_terror.htm|title=Trilogia de Terror|date=2006|publisher=Official site of Zé do Caixão|language=Portuguese|accessdate=2008-07-04]

The segments

"O Acordo (The Agreement)"

A mother is involved with black magic and offers a virgin woman to the devil in exchange for immortality for her only son. (40 minutes)

Cast: Lucy Rangel, Regina Célia, Durvalino de Souza, Luis Humberto, Alex Ronay, Henrique Borgens, Ugarte, Nádia Tell, Éddio Smani, Eucaris de Morais (“Karé”).

"A Procissão dos Mortos (Procession of Dead)"

A poor laborer is the only man in one village with courage to face a group of "guerrilheiros" ("guerrila ghosts") that appears at dawn. (28 minutes)

Cast: Lima Duarte, Cassilda Lanuza, Waldir Guedes, Carlos Alberto Romano, Roberto Ferreira (Zé Coió), Lenoir Bittencourt, Pontes Santos, Wilson Júnior, Francisco Ribeiro.

"Pesadelo Macabro (Macabre Nightmare)"

A youngster is frightened by snakes and lizards in nightmares in which he is buried alive. (31 minutes)

Cast: Mario Lima, Vany Miller, Nelson Gasparini, Ingrid Holt, Walter C. Portella, Kátia Dumont, Francis Mary, Milene Drumont, Sebastião Grandin, Paula Ramos.

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0063721|title=Trilogia do Terror
*imdb name|id=0596261|name=José Mojica Marins
*"Trilogia do Terror" at the [http://www2.uol.com.br/zedocaixao/cinema/08_trilogia_do_terror.htm Official Zé do Caixão site] pt icon