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Coffin Joe returns from the (nearly) dead

A posting at Dread Central is announcing that Brazilian horror icon Jose Mojica Marins-- aka Ze do Caixao, aka Coffin Joe-- is directing and starring in the third and final installment of his original Coffin Joe series, a mere 38 years after the second one. Called The Embodiment of Evil, it promises "many gory, gory scenes and a journey into Purgatory!"

(I liked this sentence most of all: "Financing has been handed down from the Federal Government of San Paulo, and Marins will be working with the biggest budget he's ever had, so you can bet it's going to look as glistening and gory as they can get!" Let's hear it for government funding for the arts!)

I'm not holding out a lot of hope: Mojica is 77 years old, although he seems to be doing pretty well in the recent documentary about his career, The Strange World of Jose Mojica Marins (it's good, by the way). So who knows, maybe he'll pull it off. After all, he's still got the fingernails for it.

(P.S. Here's a blog entry I did a few years ago on Mojica's own cinematic autobio, Demons and Wonders, which features the famous headline, "EAT ROACHES AND LICK SKULLS TO GET ROLE IN MOVIE!")

Posted by Steve Monaco at August 10, 2006 3:21 PM

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