José Mojica Marins a.k.a. Coffin Joe unsurprisingly has only a small following, and that's not surprising because his films are so weird and therefore difficult to get on with. I did actually like his first two efforts; the amusingly titled At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul and This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse, but was less than impressed with the third entry in his series and am not impressed with this one either. The first two films were actually quite similar and to his credit, the director decided to change things a bit for his third movie and made it an omnibus, and here again he's decided to do things differently as this time we focus on an experiment involving LSD and, of course, Coffin Joe. I have no idea what the experiment is supposed to be investigating; probably fear or something, and the film basically follows a load of test subjects who take the drug and begin hallucinating. Unsurprisingly, all the hallucinations involve sex and general sleaze and Coffin Joe turns up too.
This film is a complete mess; after five minutes the plot gets completely lost and we end up with a hodgepodge of images with barely any connection to each other. The plot involves drugs and it would seem that the director wanted this idea to carry over into the film itself as I can't imagine that José Mojica Marins was not on drugs when he wrote and filmed this. The film is less focused around the character of Coffin Joe this time and the action (seems to!) focus more on the mythology surrounding it. Despite the fact that none of it makes any sense, there are some good images on display; but to be honest, I prefer my films (generally) to make sense and this one just doesn't do that, which made me rather bored by the time it finished. Like the second film directed by José Mojica Marins, this one features a section in full colour in the final third and it's definitely the best part of the film - it still makes no sense, but this bit is really nice to look at and we get to see the strange character using his powers to undress a woman, which is exactly what I would use powers like that for. Anyway, this film really is a mess and unless you really enjoyed the previous three films in the series; I would not recommend tracking it down.
This film is a complete mess; after five minutes the plot gets completely lost and we end up with a hodgepodge of images with barely any connection to each other. The plot involves drugs and it would seem that the director wanted this idea to carry over into the film itself as I can't imagine that José Mojica Marins was not on drugs when he wrote and filmed this. The film is less focused around the character of Coffin Joe this time and the action (seems to!) focus more on the mythology surrounding it. Despite the fact that none of it makes any sense, there are some good images on display; but to be honest, I prefer my films (generally) to make sense and this one just doesn't do that, which made me rather bored by the time it finished. Like the second film directed by José Mojica Marins, this one features a section in full colour in the final third and it's definitely the best part of the film - it still makes no sense, but this bit is really nice to look at and we get to see the strange character using his powers to undress a woman, which is exactly what I would use powers like that for. Anyway, this film really is a mess and unless you really enjoyed the previous three films in the series; I would not recommend tracking it down.