Coffin Joe - Awakening of the Beast
Unholy undertaker, evil philosopher, denizen of dreams and hallucinations... Coffin Joe, with his trademark top hat, black cape and long talon-like finger nails, is a horror icon in his native Brazil.  Revered as the national boogeyman, Coffin Joe has been immortalized in films, TV shows, radio programs, comic books and popular songs. 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 Bava, Luis Bunuel and Russ Meyer.  Fantoma is proud to present Awakening of the Beast in a new director-approved edition.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.