Four years later, Coffin Joe has returned from the end of At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul and has recovered from shock, blindness and being accused for a series of murders. Now it's time to get back to finding his perfect woman and continue his blood.
Together with a hunchbacked assistant named Brono, he kidnaps six gorgeous women and puts them all through a horrific series of tasks to determine who will bear his child. Only Marcia doesn't scream in the face of the madness Coffin Joe puts them through, so only she can be the one. Yet even though he takes her to his bed - and kills the other five with snakes - she refuses him. He releases her, claiming he knows that she will never tell anyone what she has seen.
That's when he meets the Colonel's daughter, Laura, who actually returns his affection. The military man and his son try to break off their union, but Coffin Joe acts as only as he can to such an offense: he has Bruno kill Laura's brother and blames the colonel's henchman Truncador.
Yet now comes the dark night for the man who has no soul, as he goes to Hell after learning that one of his six brides was pregnant when he killed her. Dooming her child, he wanders the technicolor nightmare that is the abyss and comes upon Satan himself, who is also Coffin Joe. Our world's version renounces his ways in light of this revelation.
Coffin Joe resists all the killers the colonel and his men send after him and finally impregnates Laura, just as Marcia kills herself by drinking arsenic. Yet before she dies, she tells the townsfolk of Coffin Joe's crimes and they form a lynch mob just as he must decide who will survive, his bride or the baby, as the pregnancy has complications. Together they agree that the child must live, but fate is cruel and both Laura and Joe's scion die. Destroyed by this, he is no match for the lynch mob that arrives, shooting him in the cemetery where he drowns in the same pond where he drowned so many of his victims.
At the point of death, a priest offers to hear Joe's confession. He accepts God as his Savior and drowns as the skeletons of his victims claim him.
Brazilian censors forced filmmaker - and the human avatar of Coffin Joe - Jose Mojica Marins to recut and redub the end of this movie. That's why the strange ending of salvation is in here. It enraged Jose Mojica Marins and put a curse on his career, or so he felt, to the point that he could never finish his planned trilogy of three Coffin Joe movies. It took until 2005 and filmmakers who grew up as his fans before Embodiment of Evil closed out the story and showed how Coffin Joe survived.
In The Wizard of Oz, a better world is in color instead of black and white. In This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse, Hell itself is the only place to get the full color gel Mario Bava treatment and that says something about the nihilistic worldview of its creator and his creation. I grew up in a small town too, Coffin Joe, but I wasn't brave enough to grow out my fingernail to absurd lengths, go on and on about my superiority and make out with a woman while throwing snakes at others. I can only watch you and see how it could have been.
Together with a hunchbacked assistant named Brono, he kidnaps six gorgeous women and puts them all through a horrific series of tasks to determine who will bear his child. Only Marcia doesn't scream in the face of the madness Coffin Joe puts them through, so only she can be the one. Yet even though he takes her to his bed - and kills the other five with snakes - she refuses him. He releases her, claiming he knows that she will never tell anyone what she has seen.
That's when he meets the Colonel's daughter, Laura, who actually returns his affection. The military man and his son try to break off their union, but Coffin Joe acts as only as he can to such an offense: he has Bruno kill Laura's brother and blames the colonel's henchman Truncador.
Yet now comes the dark night for the man who has no soul, as he goes to Hell after learning that one of his six brides was pregnant when he killed her. Dooming her child, he wanders the technicolor nightmare that is the abyss and comes upon Satan himself, who is also Coffin Joe. Our world's version renounces his ways in light of this revelation.
Coffin Joe resists all the killers the colonel and his men send after him and finally impregnates Laura, just as Marcia kills herself by drinking arsenic. Yet before she dies, she tells the townsfolk of Coffin Joe's crimes and they form a lynch mob just as he must decide who will survive, his bride or the baby, as the pregnancy has complications. Together they agree that the child must live, but fate is cruel and both Laura and Joe's scion die. Destroyed by this, he is no match for the lynch mob that arrives, shooting him in the cemetery where he drowns in the same pond where he drowned so many of his victims.
At the point of death, a priest offers to hear Joe's confession. He accepts God as his Savior and drowns as the skeletons of his victims claim him.
Brazilian censors forced filmmaker - and the human avatar of Coffin Joe - Jose Mojica Marins to recut and redub the end of this movie. That's why the strange ending of salvation is in here. It enraged Jose Mojica Marins and put a curse on his career, or so he felt, to the point that he could never finish his planned trilogy of three Coffin Joe movies. It took until 2005 and filmmakers who grew up as his fans before Embodiment of Evil closed out the story and showed how Coffin Joe survived.
In The Wizard of Oz, a better world is in color instead of black and white. In This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse, Hell itself is the only place to get the full color gel Mario Bava treatment and that says something about the nihilistic worldview of its creator and his creation. I grew up in a small town too, Coffin Joe, but I wasn't brave enough to grow out my fingernail to absurd lengths, go on and on about my superiority and make out with a woman while throwing snakes at others. I can only watch you and see how it could have been.