Awakening of the Beast

Awakening of the Beast (1970) (original titles: O Ritual dos Sádicos, and O Despertar da Besta) is a Brazilian horror film by Brazilian filmmaker and actor José Mojica MarinsAwakening of the Beast official film siteO Ritual dos Sádicos IMDb profile. Marins appears as himself and as the Coffin Joe character in the fictional film which is in the form of a pseudodocumentary.
==Summary==
Dr. Sergio, a psychiatrist, appears on a television program called "Shining a Light". He is attempting to prove a theory of his by presenting a series of anecdotal vignettes which portray drug users and various negative and shocking results.
;The Chapters
The Fantoma 3 DVD Box Set insert lists the film's chapters as follows:
#The Chamber Pot: A woman, being watched by a group of derelict men, injects a drug into her vein, then strips off her clothes to a song entitled Guerra ("War"). Once naked, the men produce a chamberpot on which the woman squats and supposedly defecates.
#Holy Moses: A schoolgirl is coaxed into an apartment where men are partying. She joins them in smoking marijuana. As the party escalates, the men compete in a game to see who can remove the girl's underwear with only their teeth. When the game is finished, a man appears dressed as Moses holding the 10 Commandments tablets and a staff. He penetrates the girl with the staff which results in her death.
#Addicts and Cops: Drug users are arrested and treated to random brutalities by the police.
#The Pony
#The Producer's a Pig
#Dirty Laundry
#Meet the Press
#Rounding Up the Subjects
#On the Town
#The Trip: Color segment of the film reveals the visions seen by the four volunteers during Dr. Sergio's experiment.
#Philosophy
#Finale
==Opening monologue==
O meu mundo é estranho, mas digno de todos que o queiram aceitar.
E nunca corrupto como querem fazê-lo.
Pois é composto, meu amigo, de pessoas estranhas, mas não mais estranhas que VOCÊ!!!!
"My world is strange. But it is worthy to those I accept.
And never corrupt, as it has been told.
It is made, my friend, of strange people, but none are stranger than YOU!!!!"
==Video==
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==Cast==
*José Mojica Marins as Himself/Coffin Joe
;The volunteers
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*Andréa Bryan as Volunteer
*Lurdes Vanucchi Ribas as Volunteer
*Mario Lima as Volunteer
*Ozualdo Candeias as Volunteer
;The television panel
:
*Sérgio Hingst as Dr Sérgio
*Carlos Reichenbach
*Jairo Ferreira
*João Callegaro
*Maurice Capovilla
*Walter C. Portella
==Covers and promotional art==
				
==References==
==External links==
*Official film site
*IMDb profile
*Portal Brasileiro: Article
*EccentricCinema: Article
*Film essay at Tropical Gothic
*Movie Review: Coffin Joe - Awakening of the Beast BlogCritics Video.com
*Awakening of the Beast bocadoinferno.com
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