At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul
And
This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse
Hey look! It’s a double feature!
I felt like I couldn’t show the first film without the second one – especially since Tubi hasn’t pulled either of them yet. What we have here tonight is some grand low-budget horror films from Brazil, courtesy a very talented and motivated director, writer and actor by the name of José Mojica Marins. He overcame a lack of money, lack of actors, and even a lack of film to get his career launched. And quite honestly, he made some great films with what he had. He ended up playing his iconic “Coffin Joe” role over a dozen times, and he is still going. Good for him! I can tell you that by the early 1980s he was an underground legend in the states and his films were great lowbrow entertainment. I think he was a big inspiration for a generation of people to just get out there with a camera and make something, and see if it made money. Heck, anything is better than working at Denny’s!
I won’t go on much longer about this icon of low budget horror. Nobody likes a long post. I am glad to host this though, and I hope you enjoy it. You may be surprised at what he got away with in the 1960s Brazil. So what are these films all about?
Our first film is… At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul!
Driven by the overwhelming desire to have a son to continue his bloodline, blasphemous Zé do Caixão, the wicked undertaker of a tight-knit, God-fearing Brazilian village, sets his mind on finding the perfect woman to bear his child. And having grown tired of his infertile wife Lenita, the despicable mortician sets his sights on impregnating his best friend Antonio’s girlfriend Terezinha, and no one can stand in his way…
–IMDB
Our second film is… This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse!
After the events of the previous film, Coffin Joe continues to seek a maiden to give him a son. With the help of servant Bruno, he kidnaps six girls from a village. Which one of them will pass his trials of fear?
–IMDB
Kinda looks like the blonde in that movie poster might. At some point during this film José got ahold of a can of color film, and makes a shocking full-color transition as everyone goes to Hell. Use it if you got it!
I do hope you enjoy tonight’s double feature, this is a real film legend in action. This film didn’t really get major exposure in the states until the independent video revolution that started in the early 1980s. It was one of those amazing finds back then, sitting on a shelf next to Hammer Horror classics, just waiting for somebody to take a chance and rent it…
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary!
Incredible things are happening in the world right now. The Ayatollah might be toast by Thursday. Maduro got nabbed, at last. Crazy commie Karens are protesting in the streets. Take a break and from it all and watch some films. Next week, I will play something…. I just don’t know what yet. I have a lot of choices saved up!
Cool tape effects.
I found a dead frog in my car today. Probably a stowaway from Florida. Joke’s on him. It was hard as a rock.
[Nelson laugh]
Now I’m thinking of that Monty Python sketch about the crunchy frog.
I had a car that had ants.
I will take that over Australian spider cars.
Yeah, had that problem too, also in Florida. Fortunately, I found them after arriving to welding class and was able to burn off the ones infesting my welding jacket.
Have a little fire, scarecrow!
Hey, Derp! I got terminated by Walmart, too!
No animal issues in my cars, so far, but I have accidentally lit my car on fire while driving a few times. Legit, I handled it quite well. No fuzz, nor fuss.
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Fired from Wal-Mart? Seemed like it was going well.
See below
Wait, didn’t you have a job this morning?
Today turned out to be my last day! I posted some details below. I am possibly gonna miss out on 34 hours of accrued PTO. Uncertain, am I.
Where is everybody??
I am here! Running late. It is slow tonight.
Seems like this happens every time I run a movie from south of the border.
This one is in Portuguese, so I can’t listen and do comments at the same time because subtitles.
I’m thinking this guy is like Tarantino. A good director, but doesn’t have it as an actor.
I agree with that assessment.
I’m sleeping.
I’ll queue these up. I’m still catching up on past GlibFlicks.
Thanks RJ!
How ’bout this? “Marins was inspired to make the film based on a nightmare where he was lowered into a grave by a black-clad version of himself. ” Ok, who hasn’t.
“To fund the project, Marins sold possessions such as his family car, having his wife live with her parents…” Uh. Huh. Get her outta there, and then fulfill his dream with his best friend’s gal? Well. I do sense dedication.
Well I’ve never had this figure in black stand before me. Then again, I was a lousy bass player.
Huh. I always get the black-figure treatment. It just stands really, really close to me every night.
STEVE SMITH NOT BLACK. EVAN FIND OUT SOON.
I think maybe the weirdest sci fi disaster movie is The Monolith Monsters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxohSwDFjxg
Earth vs Rocks
That was a great film. It was trying to put the science back into science fiction.
There is derp even I nope out of. Here is a sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDKbT_l2us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk6HKpjGgQM
tits?
Yes
Right to the point.
ooo… a doubler tonight.
I once had a beautiful Brazilian woman tell me she wanted to teach me how to speak Portuguese. It was an enjoyable time until she told me she was married. I had to excuse myself. Homey don’t play that game.
I have to say that I do prefer black and white to color when it comes to low budget horror.
Reminds me of old Vincent Price movies, and I love me some VP.
Semi-Repost for Derp and more: Well, I again join hands with Derp, as I was also terminated by Walmart. I exceeded their 4.5 absentee point balance. On the bright side of life, I have that transcriptionist for the IMPD interview in two weeks and my voca rehab dude has a good lead. So good timing? Huh.
I’ve got 34hrs of PTO accrued. Cursory glance says I’ll get paid that, but there may be an exception in IN if there’s a company policy. Looking into that, there may be talk that Walmart pays it if you’ve been there for a year or more, but it may depend on a few things. Hrm. I started March 5, so 10mo in. Hrm-cicle-hrmy-hrm.
I’m not too bummed. It was coming, anyway. I’d have to take an absence for that interview, regardless. *shrug* [<– There's some truth to that, but it still sucks. Onward, Ev.]
Any thoughts /info on the PTO pickle are highly appreciated.
Remember you’re a human being, not a human doing. Jobs come and go.
Given your attitude, I don’t think you have much to worry about.
Live on the edge of glory, like that singer Lazy Hooha, or whatever her name is.
Oooh, Brad Goodman! I’m a human *going!*… on the way to new work. It’s an uncomfortable situation I’ve been in, but I’m confident I’ll be able to find a new and better one.
I will say, and you zoom past me in this regard, but I’ve had quite a cinematic life. I’m still in the beginning of Act III, with ‘two steps forward, one back,’ right before I find the ‘right’ upward path. (I’m sure I’ve got a few more stumbles in me.)
I see my neurologist tomorrow and I’ll try again to get a referral so I can get amphetamine salts.. errrrr Ritalin or Adderall!… cuz I’m one of the folk where that shit is like an On/Off switch. It was revelatory. It’s also an anti-convulsant, so just feed it into my veins.
MN Munch isn’t doing well in her return to Sauk Centre. Damn, she fucking hatehatehates the Somalis.
IIRC you did some stand-up in Chicago? To not lie, that’s been a Dream of mine for quite a while. Be a beast with my always-had social anxiety, but it’s another oddly similar thing we (may) share.
I still maintain we’d be a good sitcom pairing.
You’ll get a check in a month or 2 for your unused PTO. I did. Well, I got a check for something, and it was probably that.
This is the Bethannica reporting live from a hole in the wall karaoke bar. Just lurking. How is everybody doing tonight?
Watching a fun tennis match from New Zealand (one of the rare talented American men is playing) and building a nice Thursday night booze buzz.
New ZealandAustraliaIt’s the upside-down swing part of calendar, cut me some slack.
https://tenor.com/guXtNtQ1XzN.gif
I had too much alcohol and started watching “Rick and Morty”.
I need to eat and get some sleep.
The coverage keeps flipping from Auckland to Adelaide. I can’t keep up.
Never watched it; I have been intrigued but before investigating was turned off by the main actor getting canceled and replaced.
@Rhy: I happened on it and heard folk’s hear talk about it, so I gave it a shot. Incredibly glad I did. It’s the only recent show that I think it legit clever, original, and our-kind of insightful when it wants to be. Strongly recommend.
I am bizarrely out of touch; I haven’t seen Veep yet, which is apparently our spiritual show, with its SF-esque accuracy, and I’ve made known that Julia Louis-Dreyful is my spiritual soulmate. I’ve got appointments, but I’ll take a bit of a rest for the next week. Good time to catch up. And finish the two subs I’ve started.
I fibbed in the interest of KISS* – I did watch one episode a year or so ago and was intrigued. While being wary and distrustful of the politics that had been swirling around it.
It does check all my boxes. I should watch.
*keep it simple stupid
…and losing to some dude I never heard of.
Heaven forbid an American break decades of history of the US sucking complete ass at tennis.
Hey, nice to see ya! Where ya at?
Was expecting Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones.
am art disappoint.
Neighbor’s dog’s pathetic whining is pissing me off again. Increasing teevee volume to the maximum to drown it out.
I am not a big fan of the beasts but even if I were, I think they are totally inappropriate in an apartment building setting. I can’t smoke here but I could keep one of those monsters? Ugh.
I live next to a guy who works on the night shift. Maximum quiet.
I like animals and always have. Even had a few pets when I was a kid. By the time I reached my teens, I had no desire left to take care of or share a living space with an animal, especially a dog.
Dogs are intelligent, social creatures. You can’t just keep them cooped up and alone for hours on end. Also, they will piss and shit in the house unless you train them to do it outside.
My family had cats growing up and I did keep a pair of cats for ~14 years recently. But I am a one and done kind of guy – like many experiences for me, it was mostly enjoyable, often frustrating, and I have no particular desire or need to repeat it.
But dogs are just completely out of the question. They need way more attention than I am willing to provide. And I am a city kid and feel that dogs need more space. It’s crazy to keep them in a tiny apartment.
X-Files is showing an ep with that mind-reader kid that figured prominently in several stories.
I think if mind-reading actually existed, they should be shot on sight – in the crib, if possible.
There would be no greater danger to the rest of humanity.
And it’s crazy that Rod Serling got that right long before many celebrated syfy/fantasy writers came to treat such monsters with sympathy instead of alarm.
Any kid who had that power would rule the world before long and it would not go well for the rest of us.