Coffin Joe

[Festered]

Brazil's José Mojica Marins(aka Zé do Caixão-Coffin Joe) is one of the great world horror masters, who's work is largely unsung, outside of cult circles. Pretty much a Jack of all trades, who has been producing, directing, writing and even creating the music for his films since the early 60s. His signature character, the undertaker Coffin Joe, introduced in At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964) is a cross between Sergio Leone's nihilist Man with No Name trilogy and the gory excesses of Lewis and Romero, with a strange hint of pedophilia. Although there are only a small handful of true Coffin Joe films, he has appeared as the character many times, and is still making films.

I've seen about 4 of his films, on VHS, and want to get a DVD collection of his work going. I was wondering how many fans of his are here, if they have any of his work on disc, and what quality it is. Which, at the moment, are worth the investment. Let me know what you think.

Here's a couple of great fansites to check out, also-

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[Doc Faustus]

Coffin Joe is prime stuff. The easiest way to get the DVD collection together is to get the box. It's not badly priced and it's awesome.

[Festered]

Gotta link?

Only trouble with box sets, is that you sometimes don't get exactly the films you want, and, depending on the distributer, not the best prints, either. I'd like to get original language discs, which may come with a bit of special features. Unedited will probably be out of the question, as his films were heavily censored, and who knows what happened to all that footage.

[fortunato]

coffin joe is great.
nice to see appreciation for him.

unfortunately, the boxset went out of print last year, as did most of his films. you'd have to find them on ebay, and they're usually pretty pricey there.

[neverending]

I love Coffin Joe, and other Marins films.

Really want to see the latest one.

[Doc Faustus]

Gotta link?

Only trouble with box sets, is that you sometimes don't get exactly the films you want, and, depending on the distributer, not the best prints, either. I'd like to get original language discs, which may come with a bit of special features. Unedited will probably be out of the question, as his films were heavily censored, and who knows what happened to all that footage.

Apparently, it's out of print, being sold on Amazon for 70 dollars. Just look up Coffin Joe trilogy on Amazon. It's not on Deep Discount, which is where I got mine. Maybe this movie will encourage a new release though.

[Festered]

I saw the coffin box set ranging from $130 - 150, in various conditions. Anybody here have it, and if so, what are the best discs in it?

I'm thinking, I could probably put together exactly what I want, individually, for much less, with a little horse trading.


And, yea, the trailer is awesome. Hopefully I'll be able to get it in the states without too much hassle. Doubt I'll see it on a big screen tho.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzW8rO3Iz6k


Hell - Coffin Joe style- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMZJhZ0I1yc

[Doc Faustus]

I got it for 40 bucks back in March.

[Festered]

I got it for 40 bucks back in March.

What grade were the prints in? What discs in the set looked best and what probably shouldn't have been included?

[Doc Faustus]

Excellent prints. You are talking about the trilogy box, right? That's out of print now to, much to my surprise, because other than a lack of features I have no real qualms with the trilogy box. The interviews on each disc are fun.

[Festered]

http://www.google.com/products?q=coffin+joe+on+dvd&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title

The trilogy contains Strange World, doesn't it? I'm not too keen on that one. It's really a CJ in name only.

[Doc Faustus]

No. Awakening of the Beast, which I like a lot. It reminds me of Jodorowsky.