Awakening Of The Beast is a deliriously psychedelic nightmare about the rise of drug use and perversion among the youth of the nation. In a series of increasingly bizarre vignettes we see all manner of depravity, from a group of finger-sniffing hippies to a lecherous movie producer seducing a young starlet. Four drug addicts are chosen out of this group to take part in an LSD experiment. What follows is the closest thing to a real acid trip ever put on film — but are they under the influence of LSD or Coffin Joe? Banned by Brazil’s military dictatorship for nearly 20 years, it is now considered by many to be Mojica’s masterpiece.

This sequel to At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul is bigger, bolder and more insane than its predecessor. Coffin Joe returns to continue his quest for the perfect bride. Aided by a hunchbacked assistant, he embarks on an even more brutal campaign of terror. For his sins, Joe is dragged headfirst into the underworld. As imagined by writer/director/star Jose Mojica Marins, it’s as unique a vision of hell as you’ll ever see!

Unholy undertaker, evil philosopher, denizen of dreams and hallucination — Coffin Joe, with his trademark top hat, black cape and long talon-like finger nails, is a horror icon in his native Brazil. 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 Brava, Luis Bunuel and Russ Meyer.

The film debut of Coffin Joe was also the first true horror film make in Brazil. Joe terrorizes a small religious community in his search for the perfect woman to bear a child. Frightening, atmospheric and startlingly graphic for it’s time. 35 years later, “At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul” has become an international horror classic.