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Overview

User Rating:
6.5/10   669 votes
Writers:
Waldomiro França (writer)
José Mojica Marins (writer)
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Release Date:
9 November 1964 (Brazil) more
Genre:
Horror more
Plot:
A gravedigger prowls the city in search of a female to bear him a son. | add synopsis
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The Weekly Wrap-Up: August 9-15, 2008 (From Dread Central. 15 August 2008, 11:24 PM, PDT)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (USA)
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Runtime:
Brazil:84 min
Country:
Brazil
Language:
Portuguese
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
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Trivia:
The movie became such a hit in Brazil that one theatre in downtown Sao Paulo played it for four months. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Zé do Caixão: What is life? It is the beginning of death. What is death? It is the end of life! What is existence? It is the continuity of blood. What is blood? It is the reason to exist!
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2 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Needs to get his nails clipped, 9 July 2003
6/10
Author: macabro357 from U.S.

(aka: AT MIDNIGHT I TAKE YOUR SOUL)

Supposedly the first Brazilian horror movie ever made, it definitely is the 1st Coffin Joe film ever made. And no, I don't consider it a 'masterpiece' like another reviewer had stated, earlier.

Joe is a maker of coffins who goes around with a top hat and long fingernails. He's also a sadist and a bully who intimidates all those around him and plays upon their superstitions.

Some sadistic acts Coffin Joe commits include cutting off the finger of a card cheat during a poker game, horsewhipping another in the saloon where they all drink and congregate, killing his infertile housekeeper with a tarantula because she can't bear him a son, and then killing the boyfriend of a woman he lusts after with a fireplace poker.

This is not the kind of guy I'd want in my neighborhood. I guess he was considered the Freddie Krueger of his time (since the Coffin Joe series was very popular in Brazil) but without the camp humor Wes Craven gave to that series.

Anyway, a gypsy woman warns Joe that his end is near and that at midnight, the dead will rise up and take his soul. It's only after Joe prevents a local doctor from filing a police report by gouging his eyes out and then setting him on fire, that we know Joe will soon meet his maker.

The ending scene where the townsfolk find him dead of fright with his face all deformed and twisted, seems anti-climatic to me. Joe deserves a far worse fate than what director Jose Mojica Marins gives him here. He got off too easy, imo.

And as stagy as the film looks, it's not all that bad. The film stock they used looks like it was taken from the 1940s, not the 1960s, giving the film an older feel to it than it actually is. It enhances the atmosphere, imo. And yeah, the gypsy woman's skulls look like paper-maché and not the real thing. I guess they couldn't find real ones or the budget was too small.

But no matter…it entertained me enough with the politically-incorrect sadism that Marins gives to the leading character, that I'm gonna give it a 6 out of 10 for a decent first entry into the series.

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