the strange hostel of pleasures (1975)

aka Fracasso de Um Homem nas Duas Noites de Núpcias. Estranha Hospedaria dos Prazeres.
"God! Sorry but this house scares me!"
Coffin Joe (José Mojica Marins) runs a small hotel, where a variety of people check-in, but none check out!
Bafflingly psychedelic Brazilian horror, from the warped mind of José Mojica Marins, who provides metaphysical rambling, and non-actors to the party.

the strange world of coffin joe (1968)

aka O Estranho Mundo de Zé do Caixão.
"What is nothing?"
A film made up of three episodes, the Dollmaker, Perversion, and Ideology. The first follows the burglary on a dollmakers house, where we find out how he achieves the lifelike eyes in his toys. Perversion is the tale of a young man's obsession with a beautiful and unobtainable woman, and how far his obsession will take him. Finally we have a tale about Professor Odez who invites a TV journalist home to prove the existance of love.
Marins grim, grusome and gory take on the horror anthology, where he throws in everything from rape, to cannibalism, and necrophilia, via a smattering of S & M.

this night i'll posess your corpse (1967)

aka Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver. This Night Will Make Your Corpse Incarnate. Tonight I Will Eat Your Corpse. Tonight I Will Enter Your Corpse. Tonight I Will Make Your Corpse Turn Red. Tonight I Will Paint in Flesh Colour. "There's the most perfect creation of nature: children! Pity that they grow up to become idiots. In search of nothing. Lost in a Labyrinth of egoism."
The continuing story of Coffin Joe and his search for the perfect woman with which to continue his bloodline. Zé (José Marins) terrorises the town, having survived the attack in the previous film, aided by Bruno the hunchback (Nivaldo Lima).
More death and mayhem, this time with Joe getting to see hell, in all its saturated colour glory. This is a director pushing his characters, story and the viewers further over the edge, in a good way. The cinema of the bizarre, just got weirder.

at midnight i'll take your soul (1964)

aka À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma.
"Is your life worth living if you can't bear a child and continue your bloodline?"
Zé or Coffin Joe (José Marins) is the local undertaker who is searching for his ideal woman, to bear him a child and continue his name. One fact stops him, he is already married to an infertile woman! He soon solves this, by introducing her to a poisonous spider. From here Coffin Joe lives up to his name, bringing death and mayhem wherever he goes.
The first appearance of Coffin Joe is a memorable one. A man with no morals or scruples, whose very existance seems to be to rail against God and societies mores. He takes what he wants, when he wants it, at whatever cost, and if he can inflict torture on someone as he passes by, then all the better. Thus Marins brings forth a wonderfully amoral character, and uses him as the centre of this cheap, but effectively moody and gory shocker.