Psychiatrist Dr. Hamilton(Jorge Peres)is tormented by director José Mojica Marins' fictional creation Zé do Caixão who is running rampant in the poor doctor's mind, threatening to attain his wife, Tânia(Magna Miller), who he considers the perfect, superior woman to bear him a son. Merely an excuse to use footage from other movies, José Mojica Marins crafts a bizarre tale of mindwarp proposing the possibility that creation can manifest itself in a form outside the cinematic sphere. His colleagues hope to lure Hamilton out of his nightmares, so he can function once again in society, and be absent of the trauma which currently haunts him. José Mojica Marins even incorporates himself into the story, the creator called upon to assist the doctors/associates of Hamilton's in helping the psychiatrist secure a cure for what ails him. HALLUCINATIONS OF A DERANGED MIND is chock full with freakish imagery such as reptiles, tarantulas crawling over the chests of sleeping women, acid thrown in a female victim's face, demons poking the heads of the damned with pitchforks before whipping them with leather straps, a man being devoured alive by fiends at Caixão's command, victims trapped in walls as they are beaten and pummeled, etc. Essentially, in the hellish plane where Caixão exists in Hamilton's troubled psyche, human suffering and anguish are a constant. Lots of sadism and nudity, we see a collection of odd images shaped and fashioned from Marins' crazed imagination. To be honest, a lot of the scenes in this movie are repetitive which made it a trial for me to sit through. And, to reiterate, a lot of past footage from other Zé do Caixão movies find their way into HALLUCINATIONS OF A DERANGED MIND, so you've seen this all before. Still Marins allows his alter ego a chance once again to be set free from his fictional confines to wreak havoc and cause mayhem.
