Embodiment of Evil
2008 Dir. José Mojica Marins At the end of This Night I Shall Possess Your Corpse , the second Coffin Joe film, Joe (Mojica Marins) was cornered in a spooky swamp by torch-bearing villagers who’d had enough of his violent, misogynistic shenanigans. Denouncing God while laughing in their faces, Joe sank into the swamp and apparently drowned. Didn't he? Not so! As a flashback explains, he was pulled up out of the water again and imprisoned for his heinous crimes. 40 years later and he is eventually released from jail, and greeted on the outside by his faithful servant Bruno. How does Joe celebrate his freedom? Why, he goes in search of a woman 'worthy' of bearing him a child - and thus helping him obtain immortality by extending his bloodline! Cue much torture, bloodshed, nightmarish visions and a few familiar faces from the past, as José Mojica Marins finally closes the long-awaited last chapter of his Coffin Joe Trilogy. Embodiment perfectly concludes At Midnight I...