At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul is a 1964 film from Brazil, directed by José Mojica Marins, running 84 minutes. reelscum files it under occult & satanic panic and transgressive & midnight.
- Year
- 1964 · 1960s films
- Country
- Brazil
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Director
- José Mojica Marins
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (47/100)
- Also known as
- At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
Defined in the glossary: Occult & satanic panic, Transgressive & midnight
The first Brazilian horror film, and the birth of Coffin Joe, a national icon with terrible fingernails.
Brazil's first horror film, written and directed by and starring José Mojica Marins as the creation that made him a national institution: Zé do Caixão, or Coffin Joe, a top-hatted undertaker with claw-length fingernails and a monologue against God ready for every occasion. He spends the film terrorising his small town in search of a woman fit to bear his perfect son, blaspheming cheerfully at anyone who objects. Made for almost nothing in 1964 and promptly cut by the censors, it is crude, blasphemous and oddly hypnotic.
Coffin Joe grew into a franchise across comics and television and a national bogeyman in his own right, and it all starts here.
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