The Awakening of the Beast

19701h 33min

A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine 60's drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.

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Coffin Joe Collection(8)

Series of films involving the character Coffin Joe, who appeared in the first Brazilian-produced horror film, 'At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul'. It consists of a trilogy and various related metafictional works written and directed by character creator José Mojica Marins.

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)

6.8

Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to conceive with his wife, he kills her and sets out to find someone else.

This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967)

7.0

Zé do Caixão, the unholy undertaker, is back in town to continue his quest for the perfect woman, embarking on an even more brutal campaign of terror, aided and abetted by his hunchbacked assistant.

Embodiment of Evil (2008)

5.1

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.

The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968)

5.8

Zé do Caixão hosts this anthology of three short horror stories which feature a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a foot fetish, and a psychotic professor involved in sadistic rituals.

The Awakening of the Beast (1970)

5.5

A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine 60's drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.

The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe (1974)

4.8

Filmmaker José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in a small farm, where they spend leisure time while Mojica writes the story for his next film. However, he observes eerie things in the house, with his friends being possessed one by one by some supernatural evil force.

Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind (1978)

5.4

A psychiatric doctor driven to insanity by nightmare visions of Zé do Caixão trying to steal his wife is helped by colleagues who enlist creator José Mojica Marins to convince the patient that he does not exist.

The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures (1976)

4.3

An eclectic group of strangers seek shelter on a dark and stormy night, soon finding an isolated guest house owned by a mysterious proprietor.

The Awakening of the Beast