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A Strange Night With Coffin Joe takes place Sunday October 9th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 E. Lockwood Ave.) beginning at 7:30pm. The event will consist of a double-bill of This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967) and Embodiment Of Evil (2008). There will be an appearance by Raymond Castile, who played the young Coffin Joe in Embodiment Of Evil

Unholy undertaker, evil philosopher, denizen of dreams and hallucinations, Coffin Joe, with his trademark top hat, black cape, and long talon-like fingernails is a horror icon in his native Brazil. Revered as a national boogeyman, Coffin Joe has been immortalized in films, TV shows, radio programs, and comic books. He is the creation of writer-director-star Jose Mojica Marins, whose perversely original and strangely personal filmmaking style has been compared to an unholy blend of Mario Bava, Luis Bunuel, and Russ Meyer.

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This is hard to say - you’ve brought so much joy and pain over the years. Now, I think I’m finally ready to forgive. Here we go – Latin America, I forgive you for the telenovelas that has unjustly plagued me for most of my life. I forgive the frivolous plots, the impossibly dramatic soundtrack, and the second-rate acting you could spot without knowing a word of Spanish. With Hijos Del Carnaval, the hemisphere and Brazil in particular, have taken definite steps toward redeeming themselves and raising the bar for good television there and abroad.

The Rio-set series, translated literally as “Sons of Carnaval”, is stamped with the HBO Latin America Originals seal and carries itself with the grace befitting a television event. The opener sets key events in motion – aging Anésio Gebara (Jece Valadão, who passed in 2006) has a vision on as final preparations for his 75th birthday are completed.

One partnership that's sure to go down in history as one of our genre's finest is that of Synapse Films and the beloved Coffin Joe. And fans living in Brooklyn, New York and Englewood, Ohio, have a chance to witness it first-hand ... for Free!

From the Press Release:

Synapse Films is proud to present Jose Mojica Marins as Coffin Joe in Embodiment Of Evil with two special one-night-only screenings at the reRun Gastropub Theater in Brooklyn and at the Englewood Cinema in Ohio. Embodiment of Evil, the final installment of the Coffin Joe trilogy begun over 40 years ago, delivers more of what Coffin Joe fans are used to: body torture, flesh-eating, and blood-soaked sex, though here he is also tormented by his crimes and victims.

As the remnants of his questionable sanity unravel, we even follow Coffin Joe through a larger-than-life birth canal and out into his own personal version of hell.

Coffin Joe is back in Embodiment Of Evil, a tour de force Grand Guignol nightmare of bloodshed! Special one-night-only screenings in New York and Ohio! 

Synapse Films is proud to present Jose Mojica Marins as Coffin Joe in Embodiment Of Evil with two special one-night-only screenings at the reRun Gastropub Theater in Brooklyn and at the Englewood Cinema in Ohio.

Embodiment of Evil, the final installment of the Coffin Joe trilogy begun over 40 years ago, delivers more of what Coffin Joe fans are used to: body torture, flesh-eating, and blood-soaked sex, though here he is also tormented by his crimes and victims. As the remnants of his questionable sanity unravel, we even follow Coffin Joe through a larger-than-life birth canal and out into his own personal version of hell.

Synapse Films is proud to present Embodiment of Evil in a beautiful high-definition transfer created from the original camera negative with amazing 5.1 surround sound.

Heaven and Coffin Joe do not mix. But if there is a heaven for Coffin Joe fans, I just experienced it.

I was privileged to attend the premiere of Encarnação do Demônio (The Embodiment of Evil), August 5 in São Paulo, Brazil.

This was my first movie premiere. What an amazing experience – hundreds of people, lots of TV and magazine reporters, paparazzi, cameras flashing in my face. Best of all, I got to share it with my cinematic hero, José Mojica Marins, and my friend, Dennison Ramalho.

I play “Young Coffin Joe” in a pivotal flashback sequence linking the new film with This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967), the second film in the “Coffin Joe Trilogy.” The series began with At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964) and concludes now with Embodiment.

At the climax of This Night, angry villagers chase Coffin Joe into a swamp. As he sinks beneath the water,...