With this year appearing to be the end of my 3 year long adventure of watching 1 or 2 of Anchor Bay's Coffin Joe DVD boxset for the IMDb's Horror board's October Challenge,I decided to start the Halloween season off a little bit early,by taking a look at the only non Horror title in the set.
Outline of the documentary:
Opening with a rather strange looking man sitting down and reading a newspaper,the film makers reveal the man to be a film maker called Jose Mojica Marins,who is a movie auteur that created Brazilian cinema's first ever Horror movie mega-star:Coffin Joe (played in every title by Marins.)The film makers show how Marins went from doing ultra low-budget Gothic Horror's which barely got any attention in Brazil,to creating a movie, (with every penny that he had)which angered the then military dictatorship so much,that it was locked away for 20 years.
View on the film:
Whilst the Anchor Bay boxset sadly does contain any DVD extras,directors Andre Barcinski and Ivan Finotti take the film back to Marins pre-Coffin Joe days by including a number of exciting clips from Marins early filming days, (which his mum also talks about in the movie)which gives a glimpse of the distinctive Gothic Horror style that Marins was creating.
Along with the thrilling archive footage,Barcinski and Finotti include an interview with Marins at the centre,who despite appearing to be disappointed about the direction that his work had gone in, (with Marins making Adult movies in order to make enough money to feed his family,before the return of a full-on Coffin Joe in the 2000's)Marins still delivers an extremely lively interview,with a story that Marins tells about his crew and actresses being 'cursed' coming from a pitch black Comedy punchline,which helps the movie to show that Marins is far from ready to be buried in his creation's coffin.
Outline of the documentary:
Opening with a rather strange looking man sitting down and reading a newspaper,the film makers reveal the man to be a film maker called Jose Mojica Marins,who is a movie auteur that created Brazilian cinema's first ever Horror movie mega-star:Coffin Joe (played in every title by Marins.)The film makers show how Marins went from doing ultra low-budget Gothic Horror's which barely got any attention in Brazil,to creating a movie, (with every penny that he had)which angered the then military dictatorship so much,that it was locked away for 20 years.
View on the film:
Whilst the Anchor Bay boxset sadly does contain any DVD extras,directors Andre Barcinski and Ivan Finotti take the film back to Marins pre-Coffin Joe days by including a number of exciting clips from Marins early filming days, (which his mum also talks about in the movie)which gives a glimpse of the distinctive Gothic Horror style that Marins was creating.
Along with the thrilling archive footage,Barcinski and Finotti include an interview with Marins at the centre,who despite appearing to be disappointed about the direction that his work had gone in, (with Marins making Adult movies in order to make enough money to feed his family,before the return of a full-on Coffin Joe in the 2000's)Marins still delivers an extremely lively interview,with a story that Marins tells about his crew and actresses being 'cursed' coming from a pitch black Comedy punchline,which helps the movie to show that Marins is far from ready to be buried in his creation's coffin.