Embodiment of Evil

Embodiment of Evil (2008) (original title: Encarnação do Demônio) is a Brazilian horror film directed by and starring José Mojica Marins. The film is the third installment in the Coffin Joe trilogy. It is preceded by At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, and This Night I'll Possess Your CorpseEncarnação do Demônio IMDb profileEncarnação do Demônio Official film site (English).
After serving 40 years in a prison mental ward, Coffin Joe (Marins) is released to the streets of modern day São Paulo, Brazil. Immediately after his release, Joe renews his life-long obsession to sire a male child with a woman whom he perceives to be of exceptional qualities capable of continuing his bloodline, which he feels to be "superior" above all others.
==Plot==
After being released from the prison mental ward, Coffin Joe is greeted at the gate by his old and loyal servant Bruno (Rui Rezende), who takes him to a secluded basement below a favela (shanty-town) in São Paulo. As well as Bruno, the hideout is populated by four fanatics who are obsessed with Coffin Joe's history and ideas, and have been waiting and preparing for his arrival in order that they may faithfully serve him. After questioning their motives and testing their loyalty, Coffin Joe immediately orders the followers to begin kidnapping women so he can renew his murderous quest for "the continuation of the blood", his lifelong obsession to find who he determines to be a perfect woman who will bear him a son. His first victim is Dr. Hilda (Cléo De Páris), a controversial eugenicist who Bruno kidnaps. Coffin Joe tests her will by injecting her with drugs. She suddently has hallucinations of Coffin Joe cutting off her buttock and presenting it to her after which she willingly eats it, then vomits congealed blood. Meanwhile, Coronel Claudiomiro Pontes (Jece Valadão), a fervidly Roman Catholic police captain who holds an old grudge against Coffin Joe for blinding his eye, and Father Eugênio (Milhem Cortaz), a mentally unstable priest, learn about Coffin Joe's release, and decide to join forces to seek Coffin Joe and kill him once and for all.
On his first night, Coffin Joe starts to be haunted by ghostly visions of his previous victims, including Terezinha, Lenita, and Laura. However, he convinces himself that they are just his imagination although they continue to haunt him throughout the film. He later singles out a young gypsy woman named Elena (Nara Sakarê), who has also been intrigued with him since his first appearance at the favela. Elena's aunts, Cabíria (Helena Ignez) and Lucrécia (Débora Muniz), knowing of his evil past history, perform a ritual to protect Elena from Coffin Joe and place a curse on him. After Joe kills the two aunts, Elena offers herself to him, although while having sex with her he has a vision where he finds himself in another dimension which is a bloody, intestine-like maze. There he is met by a figure called the Mystifier (José Celso Martinez Corrêa), who takes him to an arid, surreal landscape called Purgatory. The Mystifier shows Coffin Joe horrific visions of human depravity, suffering, and perversion, as well as a female figure of Coffin Joe's death. Greatly disturbed, Joe sends his followers to quickly kidnap several more women and proceeds to torture them through sadistic ordeals to test their endurance and willingness to succumb to his perceived superiority.
When the police discovers Coffin Joe's hideout that night they find it deserted, except for the gruesome remains of his victims. Joe escapes through the dark woods with Colonel Pontes and the Father Eugenio after him. Joe arrives at a closed amusement park where Joe kills the policemen, but is wounded by Father Eugênio, who impales Coffin Joe through the heart with a large crucifix. Although relieved thinking he has killed Coffin Joe, Father Eugênio is immediately pursued by shadows and the voice of Coffin Joe as he leaves the amusement park. As Father Eugênio leaves, Elena appears. She pulls the crucifix out of Coffin Joe, removes her clothes and has sexual intercourse with him. The final scene takes place at Coffin Joe's funeral, where it is revealed that Coffin Joe achieved his goal in the end, as the women who survived his ordeals, including Hilda and Elena, gathered at his funeral, are all pregnant.
==Cast==
*José Mojica Marins as Josafel Zanatas
*Raymond Castile as Young Coffin Joe
*Jece Valadão as Coronel Claudiomiro Pontes
*Adriano Stuart as Captain Oswaldo Pontes
*Milhem Cortaz as Father Eugênio
*Rui Rezende as Bruno
*José Celso Martinez Corrêa as Mystifier
*Rubens Mello as Servant
*Cristina Aché as Lucy Pontes
*Helena Ignez as Cabíria
*Débora Muniz as Lucrécia
*Thais Simi as Maíra
*Cléo De Páris as Dr. Hilda
*Nara Sakarê as Elena
*Giulio Lopes as Mário
==Reception==
During the Paulinia Film Festival, held July 5-12, 2008 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Embodiment of Evil won 7 of 15 categories for fictional films. Marins was presented the Critics Choice award for best film. Other awards were best photography (José Roberto Eliezer), best film editing (Paulo Sacramento), best sound editing (Ricardo Reis), best soundtrack (André Abujamra and Márcio Nigro), best art direction (Cássio Amarante).Brazil: At Home. IONCINEMA.com"Apocalipse Cinematografico Inicia-Se Em Paulinia", UOL.com
Embodiment of Evil was also presented at The Venice International Film Festival 2008, during the screening most of the people left the auditorium deeply disgusted by the graphic violence of the movie, to which they were absolutely not prepared, however the few who stayed acclaimed Josè Mojica Marins with many applauses as he was in the theater too, dressed in the traditional Ze Do Caixao Costume.
==Screenshots==
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==Promotional images==
	
	
==Video==
Film trailer and opening credits with subtitles.
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==References==
==External links==
*Official film site (English)
*Official site interactive history (requires Flash)
*Diary do Demonio Raymond Castile's film production diary (English)
*IMDb profile
Category:Films
Category:Horror films