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Film: Double Feature
Embodiment of Evil (2008) + Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind (1978)
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Embodiment of Evil
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Friday Oct 30, 2009 (8–11:59pm)
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$12
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“Higher than God. Lower than Satan.” Marins’ demonically anticipated, decades-delayed finale to the "Zé do Caixão" trilogy is finally here! More than 45 years after the underbelly of Brazilian cinema was re-carved in his image, Marins has been blessed with the biggest budget ever afforded to him, giving him access to larger, crazier sets and state-of-the-art special effects through which he could unleash his most twisted of visions. This is also the first time that Marins has made a film entirely free of censorial constraints. There will be moments when you absolutely will not believe what you’re seeing! Grotesquery and surrealism abound, drenched in sex, poetry, blasphemy and blood. Spiders crawl over torsos both living and dead, Zé takes a fantastical journey through a giant uterus, hooks tear flesh, and bodies tear in half. Politically charged and unrepentantly transgessive, Embodiment of Evil marks the return of a wildly unique maverick of the fantastic, rougher, freakier, more perverse than he’s ever been before. Your blackest prayers are about to be answered. -- Mitch Davis, Fantasia Festival
Dir. José Mojica Marins, 2008, DigiBeta. 94 min.
Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind is a flat-out freakout multi-movie montage of the most insane footage censored from Marins' entire career up to this film's release, and framed by a self-reflexive plot about a man driven to madness by the films, who's convinced that Coffin Joe will come to steal his wife. Marins himself is brought in to cure the man, requiring him to scream in his ear repetitively, "Coffin Joe does not exist! Coffin Joe does not exist!", among other things. During the extended hallucination sequences that make up the bulk of the film, everything, (and we mean everything), is infused with a tripped-out delirium. The soundscapes are distorted and hypnotic, the compositions radical, the colors lurid, the editing associative and assaultive, and the images ripe with potent imagery. We can say without hesitation this is one of the top ten mind-blowers in head film history.
Dir. José Mojica Marins, 1978, DigiBeta, 86 min.
