"This Night, I'll Possess Your Corpse" is an even better sequel to an incredible film.
**SPOILERS**
Found after being left for dead, Ze do Caixao, (Jose Mojica Marins) is released for his crimes and returns to his hometown of frightened villagers. Still desperate for a son, he and his hunchbacked assistant Bruno, (Jose Lobo) kidnap six women from the village and launch a series of tortures on them, with the intention of using the one most suitable to him for his quest. Eventually deciding on Laura, (Tina Wohlers) to be his bride, which further angers the town against him. Realizing he has accidentally killed a pregnant woman, he dreams of Hell and shown that he will be damned, but when he learns that he is a father, the town has had enough and sets out to kill him once and for all.
The News: This is the way to do a sequel, with a really entertaining and full-on experience. This one really amps up the exploitation angle from the first one, with several quite sadistic and ingenious set-pieces that are just fun to watch. The spider torture in the bedroom is quite hard to beat, with their slow entrance into the room through a hidden panel in the wall going on for a long period of time. The loving gazes of them slowly crawling over the bodies, carrying over the whole room from one end to another showing each of the victims being in peril from them giving it a fully suspenseful feel to it. Once the realization dawns and the threat is known, seeing where the spiders are on them makes it just the icing on the scene. The dungeon scenes are close behind, as there's no shortage of sadistic scenes in it. The pit of the damned, where the unlucky ones are thrown in and fed to a glut of poisonous snakes is quite tortuous. What pushes it beyond is the small patch in the room that is part of the room above, and the entire sequence is played out as the observers make love to each other with the screaming and cursing from them below in the background. Quite ingenious and totally cruel. This also decides to include some bloodshed into it, with some really tortuous kills. One has their head crushed by a falling rock, there's an ax in the head, razors slice open both sides of the neck, acid burns skin off the face, and a thoroughly agonizing strangulation. This is bloody when it really wants to be. Of course, the major highlight is Zé's nightmare of a trip to Hell and what a psychedelic Hell it is as for the next ten minutes, the film switches to full-color. It really has to be seen to be believed. In this nightmare he stumbles through a Day-Glo cavernous pit in which snow falls while we're witness to muscle-bound demons whip, pitchfork and torture nude people melded into the stalagmites and walls as the sinners writhe and wail out for mercy, all for the merriment of Satan. He sees all these terrible sights and becomes appalled, since this is the refutation of his atheistic beliefs. When he comes to the throne of Hell and finds the ruler seated there, it's too much for him and he's jolted out of sleep screaming maniacally. There's no end to the amount of praise that scene can endure, and is really the highlight of the whole film in every way. Just as the original ended with the spirits of the damned come back to haunt him, this one does it too, but in a much more grander way that is quite entertaining. After learning of his failure, he goes out into the cemetery and begins ranting about the futile efforts of the church to stop him. Plagued by a vision of a past victim who claimed to come back for him, he again claims the failure of the church and heads off into the woods, where he falls prey to himself in front of the villagers come to fight him off. As in the ending of the first one, when the villagers decide to take up arms against him, they learn that even en mass, they have no power over the sinister undertaker. It will be his own actions that undo him. The cemetery is not as spooky and creepy as the first one, but it still works here. Much of his ranting against the church has been stripped away, but there's still enough here to know that it's the same experience over again. A fine example of an entertaining and superior sequel.
The Final Verdict: Just as thought-provoking, entertaining and horrific as the first one, this is the way sequels should be. There's really no complaints amongst this one, and it's a really fun time all around. Seek this one out immediately and give it a watch, no matter what kind of horror fan you are.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity and a couple quick, mild sex scenes
**SPOILERS**
Found after being left for dead, Ze do Caixao, (Jose Mojica Marins) is released for his crimes and returns to his hometown of frightened villagers. Still desperate for a son, he and his hunchbacked assistant Bruno, (Jose Lobo) kidnap six women from the village and launch a series of tortures on them, with the intention of using the one most suitable to him for his quest. Eventually deciding on Laura, (Tina Wohlers) to be his bride, which further angers the town against him. Realizing he has accidentally killed a pregnant woman, he dreams of Hell and shown that he will be damned, but when he learns that he is a father, the town has had enough and sets out to kill him once and for all.
The News: This is the way to do a sequel, with a really entertaining and full-on experience. This one really amps up the exploitation angle from the first one, with several quite sadistic and ingenious set-pieces that are just fun to watch. The spider torture in the bedroom is quite hard to beat, with their slow entrance into the room through a hidden panel in the wall going on for a long period of time. The loving gazes of them slowly crawling over the bodies, carrying over the whole room from one end to another showing each of the victims being in peril from them giving it a fully suspenseful feel to it. Once the realization dawns and the threat is known, seeing where the spiders are on them makes it just the icing on the scene. The dungeon scenes are close behind, as there's no shortage of sadistic scenes in it. The pit of the damned, where the unlucky ones are thrown in and fed to a glut of poisonous snakes is quite tortuous. What pushes it beyond is the small patch in the room that is part of the room above, and the entire sequence is played out as the observers make love to each other with the screaming and cursing from them below in the background. Quite ingenious and totally cruel. This also decides to include some bloodshed into it, with some really tortuous kills. One has their head crushed by a falling rock, there's an ax in the head, razors slice open both sides of the neck, acid burns skin off the face, and a thoroughly agonizing strangulation. This is bloody when it really wants to be. Of course, the major highlight is Zé's nightmare of a trip to Hell and what a psychedelic Hell it is as for the next ten minutes, the film switches to full-color. It really has to be seen to be believed. In this nightmare he stumbles through a Day-Glo cavernous pit in which snow falls while we're witness to muscle-bound demons whip, pitchfork and torture nude people melded into the stalagmites and walls as the sinners writhe and wail out for mercy, all for the merriment of Satan. He sees all these terrible sights and becomes appalled, since this is the refutation of his atheistic beliefs. When he comes to the throne of Hell and finds the ruler seated there, it's too much for him and he's jolted out of sleep screaming maniacally. There's no end to the amount of praise that scene can endure, and is really the highlight of the whole film in every way. Just as the original ended with the spirits of the damned come back to haunt him, this one does it too, but in a much more grander way that is quite entertaining. After learning of his failure, he goes out into the cemetery and begins ranting about the futile efforts of the church to stop him. Plagued by a vision of a past victim who claimed to come back for him, he again claims the failure of the church and heads off into the woods, where he falls prey to himself in front of the villagers come to fight him off. As in the ending of the first one, when the villagers decide to take up arms against him, they learn that even en mass, they have no power over the sinister undertaker. It will be his own actions that undo him. The cemetery is not as spooky and creepy as the first one, but it still works here. Much of his ranting against the church has been stripped away, but there's still enough here to know that it's the same experience over again. A fine example of an entertaining and superior sequel.
The Final Verdict: Just as thought-provoking, entertaining and horrific as the first one, this is the way sequels should be. There's really no complaints amongst this one, and it's a really fun time all around. Seek this one out immediately and give it a watch, no matter what kind of horror fan you are.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity and a couple quick, mild sex scenes