Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

paulijcalderon Coffin Joe has gotta be one of the most fascinating villains I've seen. He is over the top, cruel, sadistic, twisted and at the same time funny. Everything that has to do with this guy is completely unpredictable and deranged. Some of his evil actions and haunting monologues come out of nowhere and that's what makes this so great.I like how it opens with the old witch warning you not to watch it. That really set the bizarre tone right. The black and white colors, the music and the chilling foggy atmosphere. There's something about those things that work so well in this movie that would be difficult to replicate nowadays. It's a one of a kind.Coffin Joe is so full of himself that he even yells to the dead and the gods just to tell them that he denies their existence. And he doesn't just stop there, no, he goes into long speeches about his beliefs and why he is strong and they are weak. Throughout this whole thing his voice is heard as echoed and there's thunder in the background. He is one crazy man, but you can't wait to see what he's gonna do next. Because you never know what might happen.A true classic that explores the horrors of humanity. The religious aspect is an interesting touch too. If your main character wants meat with his dinner so badly that he will have the guts to say lines like: "I will eat meat today, even if it's human flesh". Then you know some serious crazy things are gonna happen. It's obviously someone you should NEVER take as a role model.

Lee Eisenberg José Mojica Marins had made a few movies before "À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma" ("At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul" in English), but it was this first entry in the Coffin Joe trilogy that gave the director his most famous role. Zé do Caixão (as he's called in Portuguese) is the undertaker in an unnamed Brazilian town. Disdaining religion and morality, Zé cares only about "continuity of the blood", and so he wants to father a child with the "perfect woman".Without a doubt, Zé's actions show him to be an amoral individual. To be certain, he seeks to use women exclusively as a path to his own fulfillment. This individualistic attitude is actually antithetical to Latin American culture, as it is more common for everyone to look out for each other. Of course, Zé can't be seen as a representation of anyone or anything except his own malicious desires.At times the movie is a little confusing, but the last ten minutes easily make up for any shortcomings. Indeed, the low-budget special effect in one scene is one of the neatest things that I've ever seen (in an interview, Marins describes how they did it). All in all, this is truly one of the most unique movies that I've ever seen. Brazil has as much reason to be proud of it as they do of "The Girl from Ipanema" (which celebrates its 50th anniversary this month). Very neat.

Red-Barracuda This is the first film featuring the Brazilian horror icon Zé do Caixão (or Coffin Joe to most people). Its director and star José Mojica Marins brain-child and it is nothing if not a true original. In it, Marins evil character is a gravedigger who has the populace of a village in mortal fear of him. He seeks a woman to bear him a child and goes about this is a manner involving murder an mayhem.At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul is a very strange film. To some degree the weirdness may be attributable to its Brazilian origins. Marins output aside, there simply has been extremely few horror movies from this country. This means that the strange preoccupations on show here are isolated examples of horror from a Brazilian perspective. Hence the strange notion of an atheist horror villain who laughs in the face of god fearing villagers seems quite bizarre to western audiences but most probably had a lot more relevance within the context of the much more religious culture of Brazil. The upshot is that this character and these films are very strange indeed, and therefore are perfect fodder as cult movies. Even taking this into account though it would still have to be said that the story is often highly illogical and senseless. It has the feel of a comic-book in this sense. The people in Coffin Joe's world don't really act in a very normal way to say the least.For my money the sequel This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse is a better film though. In that one Marins had a little more budget, several more ideas and a better understanding of pacing a film. As a result it is a better expression of the basic ideas first given voice here. Nevertheless, this remains a curious and bizarre item that's well worth checking out if you have a taste for the more idiosyncratic side of the movies.

Claudio Carvalho In a small town, the creepy and violent gravedigger Zé do Caixão (José Mojica Marins) is feared by the locals. Zé do Caixão lives with Lenita (Valeria Vasquez), who can not deliver a son to him. Obsessed to have a son, Zé do Caixão harasses Terezinha de Oliveira (Magda Mei), who is the fiancée of his friend Antônio de Andrade (Nivaldo Lima) and kills Lenita with a spider simulating an accident. Then he drowns Antônio and rapes Terezinha expecting to have a baby with her. Terezinha commits suicide but does not accuse Zé do Caixão in his letter. When Dr. Rodolfo (Ilídio Martins) decides to request another autopsy of Antônio, Zé do Caixão burns him to death. The inspector Barretos can not prove that Zé do Caixão is the killer, but on the Day of the Dead, the local gypsy warns him that the dead will take his soul to hell."À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma" is a great cult horror movie from the also cult-director José Mojica Marins, a.k.a. Zé do Caixão in Brazil and Coffin Joe overseas. This is a low-budget rough film supported by a good story and performances with passion, dialogs with blasphemy and lots of gore. Further, this film is ahead of time with a very disturbing story for 1964, but recommended only to very specific audience. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma" ("At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul")