Embodiment of Evil2008
“The return of the master of horror”
Directed by José Mojica Marins
🏆 17 wins & 9 nominations total
The premise
Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.
Horror Vault's take
After four decades behind bars, Brazil's most notorious screen villain Zé do Caixão is unleashed once more onto the streets of São Paulo — older, but no less dangerous. The sadistic undertaker remains fixated on a singular, monstrous obsession while the ghosts of those he wronged claw at the edges of his sanity. Director and star José Mojica Marins reprises his iconic role in this long-awaited conclusion to the Coffin Joe trilogy, pushing the boundaries of extreme cinema with unflinching brutality. São Paulo itself becomes a grotesque backdrop that mirrors the darkness festering within the film's central monster.
Content: Graphic Violence, Extreme Gore, Body Horror, Sexual Violence, Cannibalism, Crucifixion Imagery, Disturbing Religious Imagery
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Cast
José Mojica Marins
Zé do Caixão
Jece Valadão
Coronel Claudiomiro Pontes
Adriano Stuart
Capitão Oswaldo Pontes
Milhem Cortaz
Padre Eugênio
Rui Rezende
Bruno
José Celso Martinez Corrêa
Mistificador
Cristina Aché
Lucy Pontes
Helena Ignez
Cabíria
Débora Muniz
Lucrécia
Thaís Simi
Maíra
Cleo de Paris
Dra. Hilda
Nara Sakarê
Elena
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