Directing
Mar 12, 1936
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
José Mojica Marins
Directing
Biography
José Mojica Marins (March 13, 1936 - February 19, 2020) was a Brazilian filmmaker, actor, composer, screenwriter, television and media personality. His interest in filmmaking began at an early age. When Marins was three, his father ran a local cinema, and the family lived in a flat above the theater. Marins is also known by his alter ego Coffin Joe (loosely translated from Zé do Caixão). Although Marins is known primarily as a horror film director, his earlier works were Westerns, dramas and adventure films.
Feature Films (116)
An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.
The Good Cinema
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.
Embodiment of Evil
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.
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
Coffin Joe, 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.
This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Rebeca and her family move into an abandoned house with a sinister past. Her father wants to renovate the house and turn it into a rotisserie. With the help of her neighbor Lucas, Rebeca discovers that the former residents were attacked by a strange creature: The Killer Lasagna. The monster gains strength and grows as it feeds on the remains of food thrown down the pipes and, at the opening of the cantina, the Lasagna will attack again.
A Lasanha Assassina: A Revolta das Massas
A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic cinema; a whole international spiritual community united under the cathartic shadow of horror.
Cult of Terror
Tiny film made for the "1-minute Film Festival". When the death comes, it is time to kiss her.
O Beijo na Morte
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 Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures
A naked stranger emerges from the sea to perform miracles in a nearby town and become a modern messiah whose deeds will affect the whole world.
The End of Man
A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine '60s drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.
The Awakening of the Beast
Television & Series (6)
First Brazilian TV Horror Show hosted by Coffin Joe. Directed by José Mojica Marins and written by Mojica and Rúbens Francisco Lucchetti, this TV show was produced by TV Bandeirantes (1967-68), using a realistic tone and a popular appeal. Despite the negative reviews this TV show has a great audience, reaching first place often.
Beyond, Far Beyond the Beyond
Second Brazilian TV show hosted by Coffin Joe. Produced by TV Tupi and directed by Antônio Abujamra, this TV show has a better production quality than the "Além, Muito além do Além" (1967-68) and a more dreamlike and surreal tone, but unfortunately not the same audience, which expect something more realist like the previous TV show. A lot of stories from this TV show was used later on the Coffin Joe's Horror Comic Books.
Strange World of Coffin Joe: TV Serie
Third Brazilian TV show hosted by Coffin Joe. This show directed by José Mojica Marins was a strange mix of an auditorium show and a TV serie. The Stories were largely sent by the audience and adapted by Mojica and Norbert Novotny for TV. The Serie has a good audience ratings, but a short life.
A Show From Another World
The likes of Antoine de Caunes, Jean Paul Gaultier, Davina McCall, and Lolo Ferrari are your guides to the weird and wonderful in Europe and beyond. How else would you learn about pubic hairdressers, the Penis Olympics, or the latest Japanese sex toys?