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At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

Aielo, Robinson (Actor), Barbosa, Almir (Actor) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
IMDb6.9/10.0
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Genre Horror
Format NTSC, Black & White, Widescreen
Contributor Mei, Magda, da Silva, Eurípedes, Sebastião, Tomás, Cardoso, Vasquez, Valéria, Marins, Carmen, Melo, Renato, Aielo, Robinson, Lima, Mario, Claudiana, Martins Simões, Ilídio, Bueno, Geraldo, Graveto, Lima, Nivaldo, Moraes, Eucaris, França, Waldomiro, Iruam, Arildo, Barbosa, Almir, Rangel, Vânia See more
Language Portuguese
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Prepare to enter the world of Coffin Joe! Unholy undertaker, evil philosopher, denizen of dreams and hallucination--Coffin Joe, with his trademark top hat, black cape and long talon-like finger nails, is a horror icon in his native Brazil. 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 Brava, Luis Bunuel and Russ Meyer. The film debut of Coffin Joe was also the first true horror film made in Brazil. Joe terrorizes a small religious community in his search for the perfect woman to bear a child. Frightening, atmospheric and startlingly graphic for it's time. 35 year later, "At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul" has become an international horror classic.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.66:1
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 4 ounces
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Black & White, Widescreen
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ April 3, 2001
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Aielo, Robinson, Barbosa, Almir, Bueno, Geraldo, Cardoso, Claudiana
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Portuguese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Fantoma
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005ABVJ
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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John Molina
3.0 out of 5 stars At Midnight I'll Waste Your Time **1/2
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2014
From the review of ESTA NOITE ENCARNAREI NO TEU CADAVER (Tonight I will Make your Corpse turn Red) in THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF HORROR MOVIES, edited by Phil Hardy, Tom Milne and Paul Willeman, (Overland, 1984) p 179: ¡°The story simply provides an excuse to indulge in an endless orgy of gore and torture, which produces the ocasional surreal scene but more often leaves an impression of a very sick man¡¯s home movie.¡±

Well, I can¡¯t speak for Mojica Marins¡¯ follow-up movie which I haven¡¯t seen, but you can apply the same for AT MIDNIGHT I¡¯ll TAKE YOUR SOUL. Frankly, I was disappointed, mostly in the fact that the Ze de Caxaio (Joe the Grave) character was NOT scary or even creepy. He was more like a mono-brow weirdo town-bully dressed in black! Not frightening at all! The movie drags in parts, but if the Joe character had been truly scary, I think this would have been forgiven or at least, overlooked. More signficantly, it has been reported in the above mentioned book as well as IMBD, that Mojica Marins was abusive on the set with his actors and small crew.

I can see now where Mojica Marins got part of his inspiration¨Cin some of the darker characters played by the late John Carradine. In fact, watching MIDNIGHT, I remembered an old local (San Diego) TV program which ran horror, fantasy and sci-fi movies, "Seymour Presents", where the host (played by actor Larry Vincent of 1971's THE INCREDIBLE TWO-HEADED TRANSPLANT fame) was likewise blackclad, cape and hat and all. Only this guy wasn¡¯t evil, but funny.

Take a look at the beginning of the 1961 Italian-produced movie, BARABBAS starring Anthony Quinn, or the ¡°Main title¡± theme of its soundtrack by Mario Nascimbene. You will notice that Mojica Marins ¡°lifted¡± a sound effect on this track used during his opening credit sequence and later in the town bar/pub scene when he bullswhips the lone customer who stands up to him. The sound effect was either duplicated for MIDNIGHT or at least, amplified, but it is the very same one. Check the DVD or the CD of BARABBAS, the latter of which is available by itself or in a combo disc with the earlier ALEXANDER THE GREAT.

More interesting as a film curio than anything else. Two and a half stars as Amazon doesn't give you that option.
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Jeffrey Leach
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Low Budget Film!
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2003
Director Jose Mojica Marins took Brazil by storm with the 1963 release of "At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul," the first entry in what would soon become known as the Coffin Joe franchise. It may be quite surprising that such a low budget black and white film made in Brazil forty years ago would merit a DVD release, but when you watch the movie, you will readily agree that there is something special about Marins's project. After the release of this movie, the Brazilian director churned out numerous sequels that ultimately led to his becoming a pop culture icon in his native land. Marins often turned up in public dressed in the trademark Coffin Joe attire: a black cape, a black top hat, and hook-like fingernails about three inches long (the fingernails are real, by the way, as an interview with Marins confirms). Genre fans in the United States picked up on the Coffin Joe craze and sought out hard to find copies of his films until an American video company released them here few years ago. Now we can watch the horror that is Coffin Joe on DVD. I love it! I cannot wait to see the other two sequels also out on DVD.
Coffin Joe's works as an undertaker for a small Brazilian town. He is not a popular figure with the locals, who cannot stand his sadistic bullying or his mocking attitudes towards God and Satan. Joe laughs at the silly superstitions of the townspeople as he chows down on meat on Fridays and heckles people in a religious procession. When Joe isn't preparing bodies for burial, he spends time taunting his wife at home, hitting on his friend's girlfriend, and hanging out at the local pub. Coffin Joe's biggest concern in life is his ability to produce an heir to carry on his "bloodline." Since his wife suffers from infertility, Joe cannot stand to be around her and must always be on the lookout for a gal who can have children. Perhaps it isn't all that surprising that his desire for offspring attains a murderous mania: after all, a man who doesn't believe in God or an afterlife would have only his physical presence to fall back upon. Reproduction would be the only way to achieve a sort of immortality.
Joe's hotheaded antics eventually result in several grisly murders. In the course of his crime spree, he visits a fortuneteller who senses his evil and predicts a series of events that will culminate in Coffin Joe's demise. The undertaker scoffs at such supernatural nonsense and continues on his merry way. In various scenes, Joe murders and brutalizes his way through town. He disposes of his wife with a nasty looking spider, gouges out eyes, cuts off a man's fingers, drowns someone, and flogs a local at the pub. You just know that this guy is eventually going to get what's coming to him, especially after seeing his blasphemous jaunts through the local cemetery where he roars in derision at the dead and questions the very existence of a supreme being. Coffin Joe does finally learn that fooling with the primal forces of creation brings about events of a decidedly unpleasant nature.
Marins brilliantly realizes his creation in this film. His performance as Coffin Joe only delves into the melodramatic on a few occasions, for most of the time he exudes an aura of palpable danger. The scenes where the undertaker questions the supreme deity reek of dark atmosphere, made even more intense by the black and white picture. To top the whole thing off, the movie employs some of the eeriest background music I have heard in awhile. The music and pitch black atmosphere help to conceal the low budget production values used in the film. You would swear Coffin Joe is wondering around in a big forest for most of the movie, when in actuality Marins used a very small indoor set for nearly all of his scenes. The best effect in the film occurs during a sequence where Coffin Joe encounters the ghost of one of his victims. In order to create a creepy aura surrounding this walking spirit, Marins glued glitter (yes, glitter!) directly onto the negative. It is simply incredible how well this works on the screen; I have never seen anything like it in any movie I have ever watched. Also, listen for the use of echo boxes during Coffin Joe's blasphemous diatribes, which give the scenes an added dimension of unearthliness. Little tricks like these make "At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul" an immensely entertaining experience.
The DVD contains several surprising extras. You get three trailers for three Coffin Joe films and a lengthy interview with Marins about the creation of this project. The most interesting part of this discussion involves Marins's problems with Brazilian film censors at the time of the movie's release. Marins lied to the officials, telling them that he lost the negative of the film because he feared that the censors would confiscate the movie and permanently ruin it. At one time, at least ten different versions of the movie played throughout a Brazilian city. Fortunately, the DVD version is an uncut version of Marins's magical film. The movie's dialogue is in Portuguese, of course, but the subtitles are easy to see and, unlike many Asian films, actually match up with who is speaking. If you are in the mood for something well beyond the ordinary, look no further than "At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul."
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TCR
5.0 out of 5 stars Crude but effective
Reviewed in Japan on January 19, 2020
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Bizarre.cheaply made. Amateurish. Yet undeniably effective. The whole is much more than the some of its parts . My first time seeing a jose mojica marins film and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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