Encarnação do Demônio (Embodiment of Evil) (Brazil)
The Story:
After forty years in prison, the evil gravedigger Josefel Zanatas a.k.a. Zé do Caixão (José Mojica Marins) is released in accordance with Brazilian Laws. Garbed in a cape and top hat, and with grotesquely long fingernails, he hooks up with faithful hunchbacked assistant Bruno (Rui Rezende), who has prepared an underground lair in one of São Paulo's slum areas for his master to hide out in. As a bonus, Bruno has rounded up four new disciples who are ready to lay down their lives to prove their loyalty to Joe.
Colonel Claudiomiro Pontes (Jece Valadão), whom it turns out Joe blinded in one eye prior to his arrest, and his wife, Lucy Pontes (Cristina Aché), the attorney who was secretly responsible for getting Joe released from prison. As you can imagine, the Colonel is none too pleased when he learns of Lucy's betrayal and beats her until she reveals Joe's whereabouts.
Meanwhile, Joe continues his quest to find the superior woman to bear him a child so that his bloodline will become eternal. He's first visited by Hilda (Cleo de Paris), a doctor who is working on blood research and is more than willing to subject herself to Joe's depravity, if it means she can prove her theories.
After he's done with Doctor Hilda, Joe sets his sights on Elena (Nara Sakarê), the niece of two blind gypsy fortune tellers who try to keep her from him. After Joe kills the two aunts, Elena offers herself to him, although while having sex with her he has a vision where he finds himself in another dimension which is a bloody, intestine -like maze.
There he is met by a figure called the Mystifier (José Celso Martinez Corrêa), who takes him to an arid, surreal landscape called Purgatory.
Meanwhile, Coronel Claudiomiro Pontes and Father Eugênio (Milhem Cortaz), decide to join forces to seek Coffin Joe and kill him once and for all.
Starring:
Jose Mojica Marins, Jece Valadão, Adriano Stuart, Milhem Cortaz, Rui Resende, José Celso Martinez Corrêa, Cristina Aché, Helena Ignez, Debora Muniz, Thais Simi, Cleo De Paris, Nara Sakare, Giulio Lopes, Eduardo Chagas, Luís Melo, Raymond Castile.
Directed By:
José Mojica Marins
Release:
2008
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